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Genuineness Gives Power

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 28, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 22.

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Genuineness Gives Power

By O. S. Marden

THERE is nothing which will add so much to one's power, as the consciousness of being absolutely sincere, genuine. If your life is a perpetual lie, if you are conscious that you are not what you pretend to be,—that you are really a very different person from what the world regards you,—you are not strong. There is a restraint, a perpetual fighting against truth going on within you, a struggle which saps your energy and warps your conduct.
If there is a mote at the bottom of your eye, you can not look the world squarely in the face. Your vision is not clear. Everybody sees that you are not transparent. There is a cloudiness, a haze, about your character, which raises the interrogation point wherever you go.
Character alone is strength; deceit is weakness; sham and shoddy are powerless; only the genuine and the true are worth while.— O. S. Marden.