Emphasis Preaching Journal
In The Great Stone Face...
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In The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne, we are told about an Indian legend which states that someday there will be a man who will look like the stone face and will take on its character. We are introduced to a little boy, Ernest. Throughout the story, various candidates come along, who seemingly will be the one taking on that character. Yet, for one reason or the other, they all fail. As the years pass, people begin to notice that it is Ernest, now grown up, who has taken on the character, the kindness, and the wisdom, of that great stone face which he has watched so long.