BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 18, 1889

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 7

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.

THE most beautiful people are not those alone who have the fairest complexions or the most graceful features, but those whose minds are lighted up with a moral radiance and splendor that fills their every act with the sunshine of a heart warmed by love, and vibrating to the touch of suffering humanity. The face upon whose brow sincerity of purpose, innocence, forbearance, patient suffering for the right, and moral purity sit enthroned, is truly beautiful. The life devoted to the service of others is in the highest degree working out its own glorious destiny. In such a life is embodied all that is true, good, and beautiful in human existence. Such service not only yields the richest reward, but affords the purest and highest possible pleasure. The humility and meekness that characterize the rendering of unselfish service make life sweet and attractive; and the soul conscious of right-doing becomes strong, yet tender; brave, yet cautious; sensitive, yet discriminating. Such a mind, while proof against all wrong influences, responds to all moral impulses—Students’ Workshop.