"Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish Thou the work of our hands" (Psalm 90:17).

"All the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands" (Exodus 35:25).

It didn't spoil their hands a bit either. Some slothful persons "toil not, neither do they spin." They keep their hands soft and manicured and clean. They think any kind of work would mar the delicate beauty of their fingers or perhaps break a nail. But they make a great mistake.

The hands that are beautiful in heaven's sight are not the dainty ones that are never roughened or hardened by toil. Anything is beautiful, just in the measure in which it fulfills the mission for which it was made. Hands were made to work. An idle, useless hand no matter how delicate and fair, is not a lovely hand.

—Choice Gleanings