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Meekness, March 16
The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his
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Psalm 25:9
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You will have to learn the important lesson of what it is to be a man in
the sight of God. It is to be like Jesus, meek and lowly of heart, to guard
the interests of others more sacredly that you would your own.... It should
be carried out in your daily life and practise, showing that you have not
been playing truant or a dull scholar in the school of Christ
Selfishness cannot exist in a heart where Christ dwells; if cherished, it
will crowd out everything besides. It will lead you to follow inclination
rather than duty, to make self the subject of thought, and to gratify and
indulge yourself, instead of seeking to be a blessing to others. Your wants,
your pleasures, will come before everything else.... True happiness is
to be found, not in self-indulgence and self-pleasing, but in learning of
Christ.... Those who trust to their own wisdom, and follow their own ways,
go complaining at every step, because the burden which selfishness binds
upon them is so heavy....
Jesus loves the young, and He longs to have them possess that peace
which He alone can impart. He bids them learn of Him meekness and
lowliness of heart. This precious grace is rarely seen in the youth of the
present day, even in those who profess to be Christians. Their own ways
seem right in their eyes. In accepting the name of Christ, they do not
accept His character, ... therefore they know nothing of the joy and peace
to be found in His service
The meekness of Christ, manifested in the home, will make the inmates
happy; it provokes no quarrel, gives back no angry answer, but soothes
the irritated temper, and diffuses a gentleness that is felt by all within its
charmed circle. Wherever cherished, it makes the families of earth a part
of the one great family above
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Letter 16, 1886
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The Youth’s Instructor, November 21, 1883
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Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 32
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