p. 572 | MODESTY | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 22, 1881

MODESTY.

"Modesty is itself a power in a public man," says a recent writer on homiletics in his counsel to young ministers. And modesty is a power in a man, or in a woman, in private life also. No person gains, in the long run, through telling what he or she has done that is noteworthy; or in stating his or her claims to respect or admiration. It may be that one has less praise than he deserves, but that lack will never be supplied by his own assertion of unrecognized worth. Solomon says, "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger and not thine own lips;" and Solomon had a very wise way of looking at things, even though he did not always do as well as he knew how.—Sel.