Images Of Christ

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It's been told me, by authorities, that…before they had the days of the smelter, to take the—the dross out of the gold, take the iron and the pyrite. The pyrite is so close, like the real gold, till it's called "the fool's gold." But the way they got all that out, that they beat it out with a hammer. The Indians used to do that. And the old goldsmiths used to do it, beat it with a hammer, and turn it over and over, and beat until all the dross was out of it. And the only way that they knew that it was down to the gold, was when the beater could see his reflection in it. The one who was beating could constantly look, until he could almost shave, by his own reflection in the gold that he was beating.
And when the Holy Spirit of God begins to beat on us, with the Gospel hammer, until all of the things of the world is beaten out, and we can reflect the image of the Lord God, then I believe we become Christians. For, the word Christian means "Christ-like, and to reflect Him."