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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 15, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 7.

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COURTING FAILURE.

By Sunday-School Times

SELF-GRATULATION means loss of equilibrium, and that means a fall. No man can safely take pride in his moral achievements, for no man ever made any moral achievements in his own strength. Many a man can look back over a long record of miracles whereby God kept him true and clean and upright; but God alone was responsible. When such a man begins to feel that he is getting beyond the ordinary temptations of mankind, then the most ordinary temptation of mankind is getting its clutches deep into him. No truer word of warning sounds through the ages than the homely, oft-repeated old cry: “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” Conscious insecurity is man’s greatest strength, if it drives him back upon Omnipotence.—Sunday-School Times.