I can never be sufficiently grateful for the oft-reiterated advice of my
father to his children. "Never," he would say, "act a selfish part." In
all your plans and purposes in life, do not have an exclusive regard to
self-interest. If you do, you will find many competitors. But if you
strive to render others happy, you will always find a large and open
field of enterprise; and let me assure you that this is the best way to
promote your own happiness for time and for eternity.
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ONE-SIDED CHRISTIANS.
How difficult a thing it is in the present day to find a well-balanced
Christian! In this day of fits and of starts, of impulse and of action,
a day of revolution both in thought and kingdoms, where is the man who
is formed in _all respects_ after the image of his Savior?--where the
Christian, who, "being _fitly framed together_, groweth unto an holy
temple in the Lord?" Many of the followers of Christ seem to have
forgotten that His alone is the example after which they are to pattern,
and are looking to some distinguished neighbor or friend, or to their
own selfish and sensual desires, to inquire how they shall walk in this
evil world. Many appear to have made an estimate in their hearts how
little religion will suffice them--how little humbling of the
spirit--how little self-denying labor for Christ and dying men.
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