O Sentinel at the loose swung door of my impetuous lips,
Guard close today! Make sure no word unjust or cruel slips
In anger forth, by folly spurred or armed with envy’s whips;
Keep clear the way today.
All life should be beautiful. God is a God of beauty. He never made anything that was not beautiful. St. Paul, in designating certain qualities of character which every Christian should strive to attain, names “whatsoever things are lovely.” Nothing that is unlovely should be allowed in the life of any Christian. We should always strive to be beautiful in life. F.W. Farrar says, “There is but one failure; that is, not to be true to the best one knows.” O.S. Marden names as signs of deterioration in character, “when you are satisfied with mediocrity, when commonness does not trouble you, when a slighted job does not haunt you.”
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