Transformed by Love by Rev. G. B. F. Hallock, D. D.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1907

Transformed by Love

By Rev. G. B. F. Hallock, D. D.

A CHRISTIAN grows lovely by just loving—by going on in love of Christ. It has been fabled from old times that the graceful swan was changed from a most ugly bird into its present beauty merely because of its constancy to its mate. But, oh, how Christian fact is sure to outrun classic fable! The soul grows wondrously lovely just by loving, by pouring out its faithful affection, and all the more so when the object of its affection is the Lord Jesus Christ, the “one altogether lovely.” We “behold his face,” Jesus’ face, “as in a glass,” and “are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” But the result is permanent. The soul gets more and more set in the way of holiness, in the beauty which holiness brings. “Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is. And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”—Rev. G. B. F. Hallock, D. D.