Christ’s Influence on Character

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 47.

Christ’s Influence on Character

FEW things prove the reality of the spiritual life more strikingly than the effect which close intimacy with Christ has upon human character. That effect is beautifully expressed in these lines:—

“As some rare perfume, in a vase of clay, Pervades it with a fragrance not its own, So when Christ dwelleth in a mortal soul, All Heaven’s own sweetness seems around it thrown.”

No one inhaling the perfume of the vase could reasonably doubt the presence of something not clay. Is it not equally reasonable to believe that spiritual beauty in character must come from a power in it more than human?—Sel.