"HUMILITY----AND HOW I ATTAINED IT"

THERE IS ONE TRAIT---WE ALL MUST HAVE.

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You can stand there all day,

    naming the qualities of great men,

as many as you can think of...

    But there is one trait

you must never forget---

    HUMILITY.

This need applies to every class of man,

    just about---only two seem to be

excluded---generals and coaches.

    They don't have to be humble,

they just have to win.

Humility is expected in just about

    everyone else... teachers,

preachers, doctors, lawyers, writers...

    I've even know some humble

plumbers, yard men, and store clerks.

Avuncular uncles are always humble,

    loving, warm, and priceless...

as well as plump aunts, who are the

    best cooks in the world

and make great pies.

Have you noticed any particular

    pattern or places where prideful

pompous, people particularly proliferate?

    Yes! Clubs, boards, committees,

politics...everywhere in life, 

and when does pride first raise its 

    ugly head? Why kindergarten,

I'm sure...or soon after in the

    first grade. It's rife by high school!

and it's there from then on...always...

    somewhere...everywhere...

If someone is smart, talented, erudite,

    knowledgeable---in the cognoscenti,

We'll find it out...soon enough.

    No need to advertise it.

Don't you just love humble people?

    I've know many who were down

on their luck. Have you?

    I've breathed a prayer for them...

 as they checked the groceries...

     or wherever...

Pride and pomposity, When asked a

    question, replies: "Well, Senator,

does it really make any difference?"

     (Avoid this type of person.)

Ah, the pitfall of pride was recognized

    by us college boys, sixty years ago.

We had a joke, which we introduced

   with great pomposity, flair, and

facial expressions: "Have you read

    my book:

'HUMILITY..AND HOW I ATTAINED IT?'"

I learned a song in voice training 

    at HSU...it was "The Publican,"

and was based on words from our

Savior:

Two men went up into the temple to

pray, the one a Pharisee and the other

a publican.

The Pharisee prayed thus within himself:

"Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other

men are...extortioners, unjust, adulterers,

or even as this publican.

I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all

that I possess..."

And the publican standing afar off, would

not so much as lift his eyes to heaven,

but smote upon his breast, saying; "God,

be merciful unto me...a sinner."

I tell you, this man went down unto his

house, justified, rather than the other.

For everyone who exalteth himself shall

be abased, and he that humbleth himself

shall be exalted.

Luke 18:9-14

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BY MIL

01/21/14

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