Humility

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

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 47.

HUMILITY—what a charming grace! How it adorns, beautifies, exalts, and renders all possessed of it attractive and lovely! Self-conceit—how despicable and mean, and yet how much of it is seen everywhere! How many are filled with their own importance, and no excellence in others seems worthy of their attention! Humility is always modest, puts on no airs, makes no vain pretensions, is never obtrusive. How gentle! and yet its tones are always pure, uplifting and saving. It never boasts, but it is always blessing. How important the exhortation of the apostle: "Be clothed with humility;" and we should never forget that "pride goeth before destruction."—Zion's Herald.