. The book of months . - T^f- ■-^z:^..s3 ;;^^i%- -S .^=V^v■ It. THE BOOK OF MONTHS astray from its founder that many Christians turn frombeauty as if beauty was evil, instead of ever seekingit and worshipping it, find it where they will, until thedross of their gross minds is burned up in that finefire. Hence, too, sprang — by hence I mean from impi-ous Puritanism — such phrases as the temptations anddangers of physical beauty, whereas to the man whosemind is set on God it is by and through beauty thatthe uttermost death-stroke is dealt to the writhing earth-worm of carnalism. For the trut
. The book of months . - T^f- ■-^z:^..s3 ;;^^i%- -S .^=V^v■ It. THE BOOK OF MONTHS astray from its founder that many Christians turn frombeauty as if beauty was evil, instead of ever seekingit and worshipping it, find it where they will, until thedross of their gross minds is burned up in that finefire. Hence, too, sprang — by hence I mean from impi-ous Puritanism — such phrases as the temptations anddangers of physical beauty, whereas to the man whosemind is set on God it is by and through beauty thatthe uttermost death-stroke is dealt to the writhing earth-worm of carnalism. For the truth is that no beautyof soul and no completeness was ever framed on themutilation or starvation of self, and at the last day thegray and pallid ascetic will find that what he thoughtwas virtue and what he taught was self - control wasmere darkness of soul and purblind vision. It is thisthat must be cast away : we are people that sit in dark-ness, content that our religion should make us sad, andas such we have a lesson hourly to learn from pagan-ism, and in par
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