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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 11, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 2, No. 2.

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Self-love.

It is recorded of an architect of the name of Cuidius that, having built a watch-tower for the king of Egypt, to warn mariners of certain dangerous rocks, he caused his own name to be engraved in a certain stone in the wall; and then, having covered it with plaster, he inscribed on the outside, in golden letters, the name of the king, as though the thing was done for his glory. He was cunning enough to know that the waves ere long would wash away the coat of plastering, and that then his own name would appear, and his memory be handed down to successive generations. How many there are, who, while affecting to seek only the glory of God and his church, are really seeking whatever is calculated to gratify self-love. Could the outer coat, as it were, of their pretenses be removed, we should see them as they really are, desirous not of God's glory, but of their own.