CMP Review 2025-03-02

When William Holman Hunt painted his The Light of the World in 1851, the door that he featured had an unusual trait: there was no handle. It could only be opened from inside.

“What easier than let in, I pray, The lord of th’ house without delay?” asks Charlotte Mason in her poem “The watchful servants.” As in Hunt’s famous painting, the master is returning at night. All the servants need to do is open the door.

But there is a problem, and Mason captures the moment powerfully in her verse. And then the outcome is wonderful, marvelous, and moving. Read or hear it here.

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