THE GLADIATOR
In the Louvre is the statue of a Greek athlete called “The Gladiator.” Dr. Carl Menninger was in the Louvre admiring that statue when he saw a group of French boys, accompanied by their teacher. He said: “They were all blind. Whenever they stood before an art treasure, the teacher took each lad, guided his fingers over it, and carefully described it. There was one small fellow whom he lifted up to ‘The Gladiator.’ He was a thin, spindly-legged little child reaching out to embrace this marble likeness of perfect physical manhood. I think of that as a parable. We all must choose some ‘gladiator,’ the measure of physical maturity but also… of personality at its highest and best. For the Christian it is Christ. We look to Him and learn what it means to be… mature, full grown, and perfect.”
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