<h2><SPAN name="THE_HUMAN_KODAK" id="THE_HUMAN_KODAK" /><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_50" id="Page_50"></SPAN>[50]</span>THE HUMAN KODAK</h2>
<p>I wonder how many of you have a kodak. Yes, many of you own one. What a
wonderful little machine a kodak is! First we buy a film, then we open
the kodak and place the film. Now pull the paper over to the empty roll
and fasten, close the kodak and begin to wind. Oh, here you are, No. 1.
The day is clear, for we must have a clear day to get the best picture.
We hold the kodak very steady, then snap, we have it. Next we pull a
little slide in the back, take a pencil and write down the date and
name. Let me see, what was that picture? Oh, yes, "Chrysanthemum (is
that the way to spell it?) exhibition." Next the films are developed,
and the kodak pictures are complete, all but pasting them in a big book.</p>
<p>For all that the kodak is a whole lot of fuss, isn't it? But, do you
know, each one of us has a kodak God has given him which works itself.
We have the open circle through which the pictures are taken, our eyes,
and beyond the eyes, in the brain, are thousands of films. We start <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_51" id="Page_51"></SPAN>[51]</span>out
in the morning and the moment we open our eyes we begin exposing those
films. We do not have to do any clicking for these pictures, one after
another, click, click, click, and they are developed as fast as they are
taken.</p>
<p>If you should say to a man who has reached three score years and ten,
"Tell me the clearest picture you can remember," he would not show a
picture that was taken yesterday, or last week, or last year. He would
turn back the pages of his memory book fifty, sixty years. The clearest
pictures he possesses are those that were snapped in his boyhood. Every
day you are taking pictures that are going to remain with you as long as
you live. Let us resolve, girls and boys, that as we go out each morning
and our human kodak begins clicking, we shall take only pictures that
are true, pure and clean.</p>
<p>MEMORY VERSE, <i>Proverbs</i> 4: 25</p>
<div class="blockquot"><p>"Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight
before thee."</p>
</div>
<p>MEMORY HYMN [1]</p>
<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
<span><i>"O for a thousand tongues to sing</i><br/></span>
<span><i>My great Redeemer's praise."</i><br/></span></div>
</div>
<hr style="width: 65%;" />
<div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />
1 of 2
2 of 2
Previous
Next
Update Required
To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.