Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-04-19
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SECRET OF BEAUTIFUL LIFE.
By Rev. Junius B. Remensnyde

BY Rev. Junius B. Remensnyder.
And let the beauty of the Lord our
God be upon us-Psalms 80 II.
How can this great end be attained?
How, as our text says, can the Beauty
of the Lord our God be upon us" How
can we make our persons attractive?
How clothe our lives with charm? How
infuse our every look and act with this
secret Of loveliness?
We should cultivate the love Of
beauty in nature He who nourishes
this sense finds it source of perpetu
al pleasure. 1t strengthens the soul,
.calms its fevered moods, instills holy
peace. Beauty Is Gods handwritlng-a
wayside sacrament. Welcome it in
every opal sky, in every fair flower, in
every beautiful face, and thank God
for it.
We should think beautiful thoughts.
'As a man thinketh In his heart, so
Is he" The man who, like Cassius,
is ever brooding over dark suspicious
and nursing bitter envies, will grow
sharp and knolled in temper, repelling
by his severe aspect. But beautiful
thoughts, loving dispositions and CHEEKY
spirits will make the soul garden
blooming with faith, love and hope and
sparkling with its fountains Of joy.
Read beautiful books. This is an age
of reading. And how many books are
sources of evil Bad in their pessimism,
in their iippant impiety and in their
thinly disguised immortality! They are
purveyors to the ugly and vile.
But good, a beautiful book, book
of noble thoughts, of true poetry, of re-
ligion-what world Of purity, power
and blessing to the heart, mind and i'm
agination of the reader!
By thus averting our eyes from the
sinful, the deformed, the ugly, and TAX
Ing pleasure in the pure, the lovely and
the joyful, we can lead the beautiful
life. We can make every day beautiful
If you rise at the dawn with a thank
full heart to life's Giver; if you go
through the hours, not with knotted
brows and churlish temper, and meet
little veXations with patience, gather
Ing smiles from your neighbor's face
and giving them back in return, then
will your heart be as light as the sun
in his meridian. If you bear in mind
and practice the adage:
The world is full of beauty
Where the heart is full of love.
Then will the days close bring you a
retrospect of life's delight.
You can make the face beautiful. The
face is the mirror of the soul, and
where there is a beautiful soul it can
not but shed its fair spiritual luster
over the features.
Religion is the supreme beautifier.
When Moses came down from the
mount of communion with God his face
shone. What a far higher type of
beauty that face must express where,
instead Of the shallow thirst for self
ish gain, or the fevered chase of SEN
sual pleasure, the faith, the holy peace
and the lofty uplift Of religion write
their ennobling lines on the counte-
nance. Utterly lacking natural beauty,
such a face, whether Of sanity child,
woman or man, will wear a fascination
outlying the rarest physical charm.
You can make the whole life beauti-
full. Even trials can be made sweet
and crosses halved with blessing. Sick
ness and old age, by gentleness and res
ignation, will sweeten the spirit and re-
fine the nature until its very presence
is a benediction. Thus as the setting
day robes the clouds with a diverse hit
not less lovely splendor than the glow
of the outbreaking morning, can life's
close be made one of its most brilliant
ly radiant passages
At the close Of Wordsworth's beauti-
full life the aged poet wrote:
II never had higher relish for the
beauties of nature than during this
spring nor enjoyed myself more. 1
look abroad upon nature, think of the
best souls, lean upon my friends and
I mediate upon the Scriptures, espe-
cially the Gospel of st. John, and my
creed rises up Of itself with the ease
sf an eXhalation, yet fabric ada
mant"
Every life, then, and every stage of
life can be made beautiful Beautiful
scenes, beautiful thoughts, kindly feel
ings, pious graces and high spiritual
Ideals will make the soul, the face, the
life, beautiful, an imitation of Christ
who lived the most beautiful Of all
lives.
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