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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 15, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 39.

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Glorify God, Not Self.

By S. S. Times

THERE is a good deal of difference between letting one's light shine, and letting one's self show; and either of the two processes may go on independently of the other. The unknown worker who freely expends life, health, and money in the cause of Christ, lets his light shine, even if he does not himself show; while perhaps another, whose praise is in all the newspapers, and whose beneficence is a matter of public fame, may, through a perverted motive, be making himself show rather than letting his light shine. True, the command reads, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven;" but letting men see your good works does not necessarily mean letting them see yourself—does it?—S. S. Times.