Motives by J. W. Lowe

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 8, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 39.

Motives

By J. W. Lowe

In all the acts of your life, be sure that your motives are honest and right; for with reference to your motives will you be judged in the final reckoning.

If your motives are selfish and wrong in the doing of an act that in itself is good, even that act can not rightly be placed to your credit.

An act in itself wrong, ignorantly committed, but performed from purely honest and unselfish motives, is often a matter not chargeable to the individual’s account.

But there is a certainty of your being held responsible for your ignorance, when there has been an opportunity for your enlightenment.

The only safe course to pursue is to make every effort possible to become thoroly enlightened relative to your many duties, that you may avoid the necessity for making mistakes. J. W. LOWE.