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The Higher Ambition of Life

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 11, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 35.

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The Higher Ambition of Life

WEALTH is right and noble when it is possessed by one whose nature is greater than it. Power and ambition are sanctified when they are sought in the noblest ways, for the noblest uses, by noble souls. All the things for which the great majority of men are living are things which perish in the using; and men are low down without the higher forms of spiritual ambition. To have the spirit of Christ in you, and to feel that you are God's loving son, is the great end of life. The Master, though he was rich, became a servant for our sake.—Sel.