Article November 6, 1902 Issue

Self-Denial

ELLA S. SARGENT.

LET me not be influenced by material sights and sounds; let me hold my thought to the highest idea which comes to me from the Word of God; let me cling to that holy thought to the exclusion of every suggestion of self, and in that moment of clarified consciousness, the still, small voice will convey some truth to my spiritual sense; and it will thus become for me the voice of God, mightier than the noise of many waters, silencing in its perfect dominion all the discordant sounds of finite sense.

This is the self-denial for my daily practice. This, the self-denial which is holier than the taking of the less desirable that another may have the choice. This, the mental abnegation which silences self when it would gain the ear; denies it a hearing and casts it out when it would usurp the throne of reason.

This, the cross: "Deny thy self: take up thy cross, and follow me."

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