p. 11 | BECOMING HUMILITY by G. B. T.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 22, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 50.

BECOMING HUMILITY

By G. B. T.

WHAT folly for mortals to be proud! When man considers the small speck he is in the creation of God, he may well feel like placing his hand on his mouth and sitting in dust and ashes. Indeed, "nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance." Comparatively, the inhabitants of earth are indeed as grasshoppers.

"Lord Kelvin told us, a little while ago, that the time would come when the astronomer would take cognizance of the existence of a thousand million suns and worlds, and this world of ours is one of the smallest in the whole great family. If God were to send an angel out from heaven to look for this world, with no celestial chart or clue, it would be about like sending a little boy out on a Kansas prairie to find a particular grain of sand or blade of grass. And you are only one out of sixteen hundred millions crawling around on this little speck of star-dust. How big do you think you look from the eternal throne?"

What folly for one finite, erring being to become lifted up above his neighbor! The ant-hill on which you stand may be higher than mine, but we are both about the same distance from the sun. That which we may have above another is received from above, from a source outside of ourselves, and the honor should be given to the One to whom all honor belongs. G. B. T.