Victory

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 18, 1902

WHEN you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you smile, inwardly glorying in the insult,—that is victory.

When your good is evil spoken of, your wishes are crossed, your taste is offended, your advice ridiculed, and you take it all in patient, loving silence,—that is victory.

When you are content with simple raiment, plain food, any climate, any solitude, any interruption,—that is victory.

When you can bear any discord, any annoyance, any irregularity or unpunctuality (of which you are not the cause),—that is victory.

When you can stand face to face with folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility, contradiction of sinners, persecution, and endure it all as Jesus endured it,—that is victory.

When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, nor seek after commendation, when you can truly love to be unknown,—that is victory.—Selected.