title: Beauty Defiled, Beauty Revealed: A Tragic Story of True Blessing
author:  Mark Scholten 
description: I invite you to take a moment to consider the best years of your life. Think about what that includes. What images come to mind? What places, people and experiences are involved? What blessings must be brought to bear for a period of time to be included among your best?<br /><br />Got the picture?<br /><br />Now read Beauty Defiled, Beauty Revealed, a book that may cause you to reconsider the meaning of blessing. Because of the pain and loss involved, this story is tragic. Because of the grace found in Jesus, it becomes a story of true blessing.
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  # CAUGHT ON THE EBB-TIDE
  
  
  ### E. P. Roe
  
  
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  The August morning was bright and fair, but Herbert Scofield's
  
  
  brow was clouded. He had wandered off to a remote part of the grounds
  
  
  of a summer hotel on the Hudson, and seated in the shade of a tree,
  
  
  had lapsed into such deep thought that his cigar had gone out and the
  
  
  birds were becoming bold in the vicinity of his motionless figure.
  
  
  It was his vacation time and he had come to the country ostensibly
  
  
  for rest. As the result, he found himself in the worst state of
  
  
  unrest that he had ever known. Minnie Madison, a young lady he had
  
  
  long admired, was the magnet that had drawn him hither. Her arrival
  
  
  had preceded his by several weeks; and she had smiled a little
  
  
  consciously when in looking at the hotel register late one afternoon
  
  
  his bold chirography met her eye.
  
  
  "There are so many other places to which he might have gone,"