There is a spiritual light which makes the plainest face radiant and the homeliest features lovely. There is a beauty of soul which shines like a star in this world of sin. It is for this beauty that we are taught to pray. “Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.” It is not the beauty which fades when sickness smites the body, or which is lost in the withering touch of years, or which blanches when death’s pallor overspreads the features, but the beauty which grows lovelier in pain or suffering, which shines out in sorrow like a star in the night, which transfigures the wrinkled and faded features of old age, and which bursts out in death into the full likeness of Christ.