HUMILITY by Dr. Hook

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · May 1, 1879

HUMILITY.

By Dr. Hook

Beware of that pride which makes a parade of being humble, and avoid all occasions of showing thyself before men; feel thyself as nothing, and then wilt thou act as if self were quite put aside; speak not of thy sins; do not distinguish thyself by any unusual plainness of dress or manner, but seek to behave in that way which will attract the least notice from others; the test of thy sincerity will be the feelings which thou bravest, not the taunts or the scorns of others but the neglect—the being entirely passed over by persons of whom thou thinkest with respect.

—Short Meditations, edited by Dr. Hook.