Psalms 147:4

A beautiful picture was painted by one of the greatest of the European artists: The Consoler. It is a picture of a bedroom in an English cottage. On the bed sits a beautiful little babe, perhaps a year in age, having in his hand a toy soldier that he is holding very lovingly to his body. He is unconscious of anything about him. Back of him on the wall is the picture of a young man in soldier’s dress—the baby’s father. On her knees, her head in her hands, is the young widow robed in deepest black, sobbing her heart out.

One of the saddest pictures the world shall ever know—a baby to forget and never know his father; a young widow to go down through life with burdened, broken heart. But leaning over her, with the light of heaven on His beautiful face, is One who lays His hand lovingly on her shoulder. We do not wonder the great artist has called the picture The Consoler.