I. AND MY by Dudley Marvin Canright

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 3, 1868

I. AND MY.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

MR. I, and My, his companion, are very important personages, very prominent individuals. If there is anything great, good, or smart, accomplished, Mr. I has done it. If there is anything valuable, anything worth having, My claims it immediately. I is the smartest preacher, the best farmer, the most benevolent person, the shrewdest financier, the bravest soldier,—in short, the big man in everything. If he should die, wisdom would perish with him, and the world would come to an end. What My does not own is not worth having.

But, soberly, how often we are disgusted by hearing persons praise themselves and what they have done. No one likes to hear this in another. We all think the most of a modest, unassuming person, one who lets others praise him instead of doing it himself. Those who have any merit, find enough persons to praise them; those who have none have to blow their own trumpet. So if you see a man praising himself, and telling of his noble deeds, you may be sure that he is doing a job that no one else will do for him. Beware of him. D. M. CANRIGHT.