Doing All to the Glory of God

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 6, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 19

Doing All to the Glory of God

—It was a remark of John Hunter, that “there never was a man who wanted to be a great man who was ever a great man. For great men have endeavored always to do some great action that seemed to tend to some great good, and the effect made them great. Wanting to be great is vanity without power.” Something parallel to this was Longfellow’s saying, that “the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.” But the climax of the sentiment, after all, is found in the inspired precept, “Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”—Presbyterian Journal.