GOODNESS AND GREATNESS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 11, 1871

GOODNESS AND GREATNESS.

There is nothing but man, says an old writer, that respecteth greatness—not God, not nature, not disease, not death, not judgment. Not God—he is no respecter of persons. Not nature—we see the sons of princes born as naked as the poorest; and the poor child is fair, well-favored, strong, witty as the heir of nobles. Not disease, death, judgment—they sicken alike, die alike, fare alike after death. There is nothing, besides natural men, of whom goodness is not respected. I will honor greatness in others; but for myself, I will esteem a drachm of goodness worth a whole world of greatness.