Article July 7, 1962 ISSUE

Measuring Ourselves

EVELYN M. S. DUCKETT

"The impersonal Christ, or Truth, comes continually
to all who are receptive to it"

From early childhood people are inclined to compare themselves with one another. Babies are compared to see which one weighs most. Children are compared to see which one knows most. Young women are compared to see who is most attractive, and so on.

This practice has been going on for a long time, but it has not improved the human race. The Bible tells us that Moses sent out scouts to explore the Promised Land of Canaan. When they compared themselves with the people who lived there, they felt so inferior that they seemed like grasshoppers, they said. Caleb, one of the scouts, said boldly, "Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it" (Num. 13:30). But the others would not listen, and the project was abandoned for forty years.

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