"Shortly after the culmination of World War II, a devastated
city in England began its heartbreaking and wearying work, of restoration. In
the old city square had stood a large statue of Jesus Christ with His hands
outspread in an attitude of invitation. On the pedestal were carved the words
“Come Unto Me.”
In the process of the restoration of the statue with the aid
of master artists and sculptors, the figure was eventually reassembled except
for the hands of which no fragments could be discovered anywhere in the
surrounding rubble. Someone made the suggestion that the artist would have to
fashion new hands since the former hands could not be found.
Later come a public protest, couched in the words, “NO,
leave Him without hands!” So today in the square of that English city the
restored stature of Christ stands without hands and on the base of it are
carved the words, “Christ has no hands but ours.”
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