Loving the unseen Christ',

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Holy thoughts in the heart, transfigure the life. Your daily thoughts — build up your character. Our hearts are the quarries where the blocks are fashioned, which we build into our life-temple. If our thoughts and meditations are holy, beautiful, true, pure, loving, and gentle — our life will grow into Christ-likeness. 

Drummond tells of a young girl whose character ripened into rare beauty — "one of the loveliest lives,"he says, "that ever bloomed on earth!" She always wore around her neck a little locket. But no one was ever allowed to open the locket or to know what it contained.

Once, however, in a time of dangerous illness, she permitted a friend to look within it, and there she saw the words, "Whom having not seen — I love." That was the secret of the dear child's transfiguration of character — loving the unseen Christ. The same love — warm, tender, earnest, glowing in the heart year after year — will transfigure any life into heavenly beauty!