PROFESSOR was showing to his friends various experiments with the Rontgen, or X, rays. Many beautifully dressed ladies were present, wearing, to all appearance, most rare and costly jewelry.
Said the Professor, "It is really wonderful the effect these rays have upon diamonds." So, lowering the lights in the room, he turned the X rays on the sparkling gems which the ladies wore.
Immediately the real diamonds flashed in all their full brilliancy; but, alas I the beautiful paste imitation diamonds had lost all their luster. The X rays discovered which were real and which were imitation, much to the dismay of some of the ladies present.
So God's X rays, His omniscient eye, searches our hearts as to how we stand as to Him. We live in a land of profession. Are we real or imitation? Are we possessors or professors? Do we really know and love Christ as our own precious Savior, or are we only professing to love Him?
If we are honest we can pray, "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."(Psa. 139:23, 24.) We are known to Him, for He says," I, the Lord, search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." (Jer. 17:10) The matter is important. May writer and reader face it in God's holy presence. A. B.