The Effect of Doing Good on the Whole Person

January 20.

The Lord taketh pleasure In His people:
He will beautify the meek with salvation.

PSALM 144, verse 4.


Long listening to Thy words,
My voice shall catch Thy tone,
And, locked in Thine, my hand shall grow
All loving like Thy own.

B. T.


It is not in words explicable, with what divine
lines and lights the exercise of godliness
and charity will mould and gild the hardest
and coldest countenance, neither to what
darkness their departure will consign the
loveliest. For there is not any virtue the
exercise of which, even momentarily, will
not impress a new fairness upon the features;
neither on them only, but on the whole body
the moral and intellectual faculties have
operation, for all the movements and
gestures, however slight, are different in
their modes according to the mind that
governs them--and on the gentleness and
decision of right feeling follows grace of
actions, and, through continuance of this,
grace of form

.J. RUSKIN.


There is no beautifier of complexion, or form,
or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy
and not pain around us.

R. W. EMERSON.