Am I Speaking Simply To Do What Is Right

April 27.



Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor.


ZECHARIAH 8, verse 16.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in simplicity and godly sincerity,
we have had our conversation in the world.


2 CORINTHIANS 1, verse 12.



Appear I always what I am?
And am I what I am pretending?
Know I what way my course is bending?
And sound my word and thought the same?

ANONYMOUS.


Am I acting in simplicity, from a germ of
the Divine life within, or am I shaping my path
to obtain some immediate result of expediency?
Am I endeavoring to compass effects,
amidst a tangled web of foreign influences I cannot
calculate; or am I seeking simply to do what is right,
and leaving the consequences to the good
providence of God?

M. A. SCHIMMELPENNINCK.


Let it not be in any man's power to say truly
of thee that thou art not simple, or that thou
art not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall
think anything of this kind about thee; and
this is altogether in thy power.
For who is he that shall hinder thee
from being good and simple?

MARCUS ANTONINUS.