Wise Counsel by Bishop Knox-Little

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 3, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 17.

Wise Counsel

By Bishop Knox-Little

LET no enthusiasm for humanity, no vague, wild desire for human progress, no passion for fame, even of the noblest sort, lead you into places where you do not belong. As you reverence your own mind, as you would save it, if you knew how, from the blighting touch of those who do not know and can not teach, so do you beware of defacing another soul by a careless or a selfish touch. As you reverence the divine possibilities within your own soul, so I entreat you to bow yourselves humbly in the presence of those possibilities in others. Put from you all arrogance and affectation, all spurious humility, every form of vain and foolish show. Be content to do the thing you can do, doing it always with your might. Then every increase of your personal power will be an addition to the public wealth, then the progressive perfection of your own life will be a benefaction to your fellow men.

— Bishop Knox-Little.