As Others See Us
IllustrationStoryLeech, the celebrated artist and caricaturist, is said to have had an effective method of reprimanding his children. If their faces were distorted by anger, by a rebellious temper, or a sullen mood, he took out his sketch-book, transferred their lineaments to paper, and showed them, to their confusion, how ugly naughtiness was. Grownup people like quite as little as children to see themselves as others see them. And yet, whether we like it or not, all our words and deeds are set down in God’s book of remembrance.
The point
A caricaturist disciplines his children not with words but by sketching their angry or sullen faces and showing the drawings back to them - much as our own words and deeds are recorded in God's book of remembrance.
Audience
Adults
To tell aloud
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