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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1885

Self-Seeking.

At the recent breakfast party given to President McCosh, at Belfast, this distinguished gentleman said that in his early life he applied for many positions, scarcely one of which he ever got, and he never applied for one of the positions he since held. It is not an uncommon experience that all self-seeking miserably fails, and the highest honors and most useful places have come entirely unsought. The real way to promotion and greater usefulness, is through earnest work and meritorious conduct. The light that shines brightly will be seen in the distance. We once heard a student in a theological seminary ask Dr. John Hall, at the close of one of his lectures, "How shall we best attain a change of field?" His prompt and wonderfully suggestive answer was, "By making yourselves conspicuously useful in the fields of labor where you are." This is the remedy for many of the evils of the candidate system, and would assuredly help a man much more and quicker to another field of labor than the personal solicitude of himself and friends, which so often diminishes self-respect.—Herald and Presbyter.