GENUINENESS
There is nothing which will add so much to -one's power as the consciousness of ' being absolutely sincere, genuine.. If your life is a perpetual lie, if you are conscious that you are nof^hat you pretend to be^-that you are really a different person from what the' world^ regards "you — you 'are not strong. There,. is a restraint, a perpetual fighting against the truth going on within you, a struggle saps your- energy and warps your conduct. If there, is a mote at the bottom "of your eye you cannot 109k the world j>quarely in the- face. Your vision is not clear. Everybody sees that you are not transparent. " There is a cloudiness, a haze about your character, which raises the' interrogation point where you go. Character alone is strength, deceit is weakness, sham and shoddy are powerless, and only the genuine and the true are worth vihile. ' t
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume 12, 12 November 1908, Page 37
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150GENUINENESS New Zealand Tablet, Volume 12, 12 November 1908, Page 37
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