“ABANDONED”
Illustration★★★In one of our galleries there is a picture of an old derelict vessel, an old battered hulk, on a rough sea with threatening clouds, and forked flashes of lightning shooting across it. It is a picture by Stanfields which he calls “Abandoned.” No canvas ever spoke its message with plainer voice. I might describe it. I might comment on it. But down underneath the painting is a verse that tells the whole weird, pathetic story. Listen to the words: Storm-beaten, torn and tossed By night and day; Lone, ‘lorn, lamented, lost, Drifting away. What a picture of many a soul!
Life and Light.
The point
A painting of a storm-battered, abandoned ship pictures the soul drifting away from God without anchor or hope.
Scripture
Hebrews 6:19Ephesians 4:14
Audience
Adults
Tone
Sobering · Warning
To tell aloud
under a minute · 103 words