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The Truth of Beauty

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 20, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 16.

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The Truth of Beauty

THE TRUTH OF BEAUTY —There is nothing beautiful that is not true. There is nothing true that is not beautiful. It was in searching for beauty that truth was discovered. Its temple stands in the centre of an artificial labyrinth, composed of the most complicated windings, in which many lose themselves; whilst millions are deluded by the specious falsehoods met with on the way, and overwritten—“This is the truth, and he who doubts is doomed.” But he who would reach the temple around which this ’wildering maze of thorns and briars is planted, must over-leap these artificial fences, or hew his way right onward, instinct led, having an unwavering confidence in God and his own soul. God is truth, and every natural instinct of the soul guides us to God.