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True Popularity and Hypocrisy

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 15, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 20.

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True Popularity and Hypocrisy

It was finely said by Socrates that the shortest and most direct road to popularity is "for a man to be the same that he wishes to be taken for." People are egregiously mistaken if they think they can ever attain to popularity by hypocrisy, by mere outside appearances, and by disguising not only their language but their looks. True popularity takes deep root, and spreads itself wide; but the false falls away like blossoms; for nothing that is false can be lasting.