Keeping the eye upon the likeness of Christ transfigures the life. The old monks intently gazed upon the crucifix, and they said that the print of the nails would come in their hands and feet, and the thorn-scars in their brow, as they beheld. It was but a gross fancy, yet in the fancy there is a spiritual truth. Gazing by faith upon Christ, the lines of his beauty indeed print themselves on our hearts. That is the meaning of St Paul's words — “We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image.” The gospel is the mirror. There we see the image of Christ. If we earnestly, continuously, and lovingly behold it, the effect will be the changing of our own lives into the same likeness. The transformation is wrought by the divine Spirit, and our part is only to behold, to continue beholding, the blessed beauty. We sit before the camera, and our own picture is printed on the prepared glass. We sit before Christ, and we become the camera, and his image is printed on our soul.