Article May 14, 1966 ISSUE

Christ, the Refiner

ELOISE PATTILLO HENDRICK

Refinement to many people means culture and fastidiousness. To the Christian it should mean more, even its original sense of being cleansed and freed from all impurities.

In Malachi the coming of the Christ is figuratively described, "He is like a refiner's fire...and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." Mal. 3:2, 3; Unlike the refining process in which a substance may lose some of its toughness as the alloys are removed, the refining process of the "purifier"—the Christ—results in greater strength to the individual.

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