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CHAPTER VII
OF HUMILITY

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The fourth degree of humility is that meeting in this obedience with difficulties and contradictions and even injustice, he should with a silent mind hold fast to patience, and enduring neither tire nor run away, for the Scripture saith: He that shall persevere to the end shall be saved.1 And again: Let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.2 And showing how the true disciple ought to .. read more »

 

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