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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 18, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 11, No. 15.

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Humility

By Archer Butler

HUMILITY. Men from deep places can see the stars at noonday; and from the utter depths of her self-abasement, she (the Syro-Phoenician woman) catches the whole blessed mystery of heaven: like St. Paul's Christian, "in having nothing, she possessed all things." No humility is perfect and proportioned, but that which makes us hate ourselves as corrupt, but respect ourselves as made to be immortal; the humility that kneels in the dust, but gazes on the skies.—Archer Butler.