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Chapter 23 |
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The true culture of personal beauty is not external; it is heart work. It is not the hot sun, the high winds, or any climatic accident, that steal from cheeks their truest loveliness. I see ladies taking the most wonderful care to keep their complexions soft and white. They shield themselves scrupulously from wind and sun and reflection. If we were all to give as much thought and pains to keep the bloom of our heart’s purity untarnished and the warmth and sweetness of our heart’s life unwasted, our faces would soon shine with the lustre of angelic beauty.
There are some who can never hope to be physically beautiful in face and form in this world. Their visages are in some way marred. Accident or disease has left them disfigured. Or the sins of past generations have visited them in the shape of some physical deformity that dooms them to live in a ruined soul house all their days. But even to such Christ brings the possibility of the rarest beauty. The deformed Christian will walk erect in beautiful womanhood or majestic manhood on the shores of immortality. The face scarred by the flames will appear in unblemished loveliness in the new home. Wrinkled age will get back all the freshness of childhood. Christ is able to take the meanest fragment of humanity and make it all glorious and divine. As the summer takes the barest tree from the clasp of winter, covers it with garments of green and steeps it in fragrance, so the Lord Jesus can take the most ill formed, the barest and most unsightly character and clothe it in the garments of grace and love.
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