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Beauty in Life and Character

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 12, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 37.

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Beauty in Life and Character

"THERE is a beauty of life and character that in itself is a continual charm, and sheds a lovely radiance on this hard world of selfishness and sin. How beautiful God has made everything — the sun, the sky, the stars, and all the landscapes. Beauty must have an intrinsic worth of its own, else there would not be so much of it that none but the eye of God sees. Truly 'he has made everything beautiful in his time.' Why do we carry flowers into a sick-room, place them in the sanctuary, lay them on our coffins, strew them on our graves? — Because there is a ministry in beauty that sweetens, comforts, and exalts. To store one's self with all the gracious amenities of life; to scatter smiles and tender, sweet-toned words; to be gentle, kind, and winsome; to adorn one's self with all the arts and practises of good breeding, is to make the world easy for one to live in, and easy for one to get on in, and a glad place for others to live in."