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The Difference in Men

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 20, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 16.

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The Difference in Men

Once upon a time a thoughtful but plain and unpretentious man took his boy from their rural home to the halls of a great university. On his return, his neighbors chaffed him about the kind of appearance he had probably made among the sages and savants of the great school.
One of them made bold to inquire how he felt in the presence of men who were supposed to know about all that was knowable. In reply he said:
“I didn’t try to compare what I knew with what they knew; but when I compared what I didn’t know with what they didn’t know, there wasn’t enough difference to cause any uneasiness.”
When a human being takes that self-respecting view of the difference in men, he gives the highly developed man all that is due him without degrading himself. There is indeed a difference in men; but that difference should never degrade the one or inflate the other.— Liberty Bell.