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The Evangelist in Publicity
Boasting Out of Place—All boasting of merit in ourselves is out
of place.... Not in our learning, not in our position, not in our numbers
or entrusted talents, not in the will of man, is to be found the secret of
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success.—
Christ’s Object Lessons, 401, 404
(1900).
Not After the World’s Manner—We are not to make the world’s
manner of dealing ours. We are to give to the world a nobler example,
showing that our faith is of a high and elevated character.... Therefore,
all odd notions and individual peculiarities and narrow plans that
would give false impressions of the greatness of the work, should be
avoided.—
Letter 14, 1887
.
No Misrepresentation to Gain Favor—We are not to misrepre-
sent what we profess to believe in order to gain favor. God despises
misrepresentation and prevarication. He will not tolerate the man who
says and does not. The best and noblest work is done by fair, honest
dealing.—
Letter 232, 1899
.
Christ Not Called Professor—It is not the seeking to climb to
eminence that will make you great in God’s sight, but it is the humble
life of goodness, meekness, fidelity, and purity that will make you
the object of the heavenly angels’ special guardianship. The pattern
Man, who thought it not robbery to be equal with God, took upon
Himself our nature and lived nearly thirty years in an obscure Galilean
town, hidden among the hills. All the angel host was at His command;
yet He did not claim to be anything great or exalted. He did not
attach “Professor” to His name to please Himself. He was a carpenter,
working for wages, a servant to those for whom He labored.—
Letter
1, 1880
.
Christ Reproved Their Vanity—He ... reproved the vanity
shown in coveting the title of rabbi, or master. Such a title, He de-
clared, belonged not to men, but to Christ. Priests, scribes, and rulers,
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expounders and administrators of the law, were all brethren, children
of one Father. Jesus impressed upon the people that they were to give
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