The Glorious Beauty of the Blessed God
Beauty is captivating to many. The beauty of the Lord is so to all by whom it is seen. Zechariah, struck with the display thereof, exclaimed, ‘How great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!’ To behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple, was the one thing which David desired and sought after. I wish it may be the same with the writer and every reader of this paper. The beauty of the Lord cannot be expressed. The eloquence of men and angels is utterly inadequate to the task. To set it forth no metaphor is, or ever can be found, no, not among the brightest glories, nor the greatest beauties of this transitory dying world. Everything in God is the perfection of beauty. There is, saith an apostle, one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; to which I may add, there are many other glories and beauties in the wide creation; but let it be remembered, they are not originals, they are all derived, and have no beauty but what Go...