| "Your beauty...should be that of your inner self, the | | | | Woolman).Regardless of the strident voices for |
| unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is | | | | liberation, the Christian woman's true makeup--her |
| of great worth in God's sight" (1 Peter 3:3,4)."How | | | | character--is one of nurture, calm, and service. These |
| shall we become lovely? By loving Him who is ever | | | | are the ornaments that shine more brightly as we |
| lovely" (St. Augustine); "Some glances of real beauty | | | | get older. Christian character should become exquisite |
| may be seen in their faces, who dwell in true | | | | with age. The Christian spirit is a tempered spirit, not |
| meekness. There is a harmony in the sound of that | | | | a spirit of temper. It is tempered with the heavenly |
| voice to which Divine love gives utterance, and some | | | | alloy of Christ-like refinement, disposition and habits. It |
| appearance of right order in their temper and | | | | is only by ardently beholding Christ that we can |
| conduct whose passions are regulated" (John | | | | "makeup" such a character.J. |