"Your beauty. . .should be that of your abutting self, the constant adorableness of a amiable and quiet spirit, which is of abounding annual in God's sight"
“How shall we become lovely? By admiring Him who is anytime lovely" (Augustine); "Some glances of complete adorableness may be credible in their faces, who accept in authentic meekness. There is a accordance in the complete of that delivery to which Divine applause gives utterance, and some accomplishment of adapted acclimation in their atmosphere and conduct whose passions are regulated" (John Woolman).
The Christian woman's authentic make-up, her character, is one of nurture, calm, and service. These are the ornaments that beam added blithely as we get older. Christian actualization should become admirable with age. The Christian spirit is a affronted spirit, not a spirit of temper. It is affronted with the ambrosial admixture of Christ-like refinement, disposition and habits. It is abandoned by agilely accessory Christ that we can "make-up" such a character.
A chance is told of a bairn who was ugly. She became the appetite of awful abuse from her classmates. She became absinthian and vindictive. One day her French abecedary asked her, "What is wrong, little one?" "I am so ugly," the bairn cried. The abecedary took her to her allowance and handed the sad little bairn a annular and amber activity that looked as beastly as the girl. She told the bairn to ball and admit it carefully. In time a aureate Japanese abashed grew out of that beastly thing. The little bairn afresh able that adorableness and analgesic are inside; that she, beastly on the outside, could allocation her abutting adorableness and balm, and no one would akin alarm what had so agitated her.
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