CHAPTER IX.
TRANSFIGURED LIVES.
"The lives which seem so poor, so low, The hearts which are so cramped and dull, The baffled hopes, the impulse slow, Thou takest, touchest all, and lo! They blossom to the beautiful." -- SUSAN COOLIDGE.
Every Christian's life should be transfigured.

There is a sense in which even a true believer's body becomes transfigured.

We have all seen faces that appeared to shine as if there were some hidden light behind them.

There are some old people who have learned well life's lessons of patience, peace, contentment, love, trust, and hope, and whose faces really glow as they near the sunset gates.

Sometimes it is a saintly sufferer, who, in long endurance of pain, learns to lie on Christ's bosom in sweet unmurmuring quiet, and whose features take upon themselves increasingly the brightness of holy peace.
But whatever grace may do for the body, it always transfigures the character.