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The Transience of Worldly Honor

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 26.

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The Transience of Worldly Honor

THE world to-day is full of wrecks of those who stood high in the estimation of their fellow-men, when, at some time in the past, earthly riches and honor were heaped upon them, but who are now mere ciphers in the estimation of their former friends. No matter how high a value the world has placed upon a man, and no matter how much applause it has rendered him, when he falls from the circle in which he moved, it spurns him. Why, then, should we covet anything which this world can offer us in the way of honor or position? There is nothing more transitory and fleeting.