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Never Mind the Marks

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 27, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 22.

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Never Mind the Marks.

By Sunday School Times

We all like to get credit for our services, but such recognition should not concern us at all. In “The Altar Fire” we are told how disappointed the writer was “when old Hoskyns, in whose class I was, threw an essay, over which I had taken a lot of trouble, into the waste-basket before my eyes without even looking it over. I see now I got all the good out of the essay by writing it, and that the credit of it mattered very little; but then I simply thought he was a very disagreeable and idle old fellow.” How true to life! We all want to have our papers examined and to get as many “marks” as possible; but as our lives deepen we shall covet the chance to do our part in quiet, where
“Only the Master shall praise us, And only the Master shall blame.”