10 December

Born in 1610 – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter.

Above: Peasants Dancing in a Tavern, 1659

Also, born in 1824, Scottish minister and writer George MacDonald.

God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation — a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on, from fact to fact divine he advances, until at length in his Son Jesus he unveils his very face.

—from Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879)