HOW carefully this little boy is being instructed by his teacher, as she guides his hand, and shows him just how to make each stroke of the pen! When left to himself, what will be his guide? My little readers will doubtless say, The copy! And that is right. If he does not watch the copy, he will not know how long to make one letter, and how short another—where to make the straight lines and how to form the curves, as also many other things to which his teacher has perhaps called his attention.
Do you think his writing will be as perfect as the copy if he watches it closely? Oh! no, it will come far short at first, but if there is painstaking perseverance, his writing will grow better and better, and more and more like the copy after which he is patterning.
Now I want to ask my readers, Have you ever thought of the copy that God has given His people to pattern after? Let me tell you what the copy is, and then question whether you can ever reach up to it. It is Himself. He says, “Be ye holy, for I am holy.” (Original Material Illegible.)
ML 11/16/1902