Be Humble

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 28, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 25.

DR. FRANKLIN, writing to a friend, says: "The last time I saw your father he received me in his study, and, at my departure, showed me a shorter way out of his house, through a narrow passage, crossed by a beam overhead. We were talking as we withdrew, and, I turning partly toward him, he suddenly cried, 'Stoop, stoop!' I did not know what he meant till I felt my head hit against the beam.

"He was a man that never failed to impart instruction, and on this occasion said, 'You are young, and have to go through the world; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my head, has been of singular service to me, and I have often thought of it when I have seen pride mortified and men brought low by carrying their heads too high."—S. S. Times.