84 HOW TO ATTAIN TRUE GREATNESS.

 

love and His divine wisdom unite in divine
activity, producing all that is required to
give true happiness to all. In all parts of
His Word we discover evidences of the
strongest character, which go to prove
that such is the nature and activity of the
Lord. There could have been no seeking
of His own glory, when he assumed a
material body, and an infirm human prin-
ciple, in which were direful hereditary
evils, that he might redeem man from the
corruptions of his own fallen nature, and
from the influence and power of hell.
Little glory was ascribed to him by the
wicked men who persecuted him, and con-
demned him, and finally put him to death.
But he sought not His own glory. In his
works, how clearly displayed is His divine
benevolence! I need only direct your
thoughts to nature. I need only refer you
to the fact that the Lord causes the sun to
shine upon the evil and the good, and the
rain to fall alike upon the just and the
unjust. Even upon those who oppose His
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