Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

564 BIBLE REVIEW Feb. -MST.
scious of them?
It is because we do not trouble ourselves
to watch and observe what we do and how we do
it.
In other words, we allow our bodies to act without
our guidance. We are not masters in our own house. It
has been claimed, and we think rightfully, that even
we had the power to see ourselves as others see us,
should still be as far from being able to judge ourselves
correctly as we are now. This is true; because while we
do not always observe our own actions fully, and are
therefore not qualified to judge ourselves, yet others,
while they observe those things that we do, do not always
perceive our purpose, and for that reason are not
better qualified to judge us than we are to judge ourselves.
We believe that the true stand for us to take is not to
desire to see ourselves as others see us, but rather carefully
to restrain self, and learn always to act in every
way from our own volition, doing intentionally everything
that we do, and so keep our bodies under. Then
by that method of action we should be able to see ourselves
as we are.
Doubtless it would be well could we see ourselves as
others see us, but it would be vastly better to be able to
see ourselves as we are. But we can never learn to see
ourselves as we are until we stop habits of involuntary
action, and carefully and faithfully hold ourselves in restraint,
thus permitting ourselves to think, speak, and
act only by a distinctly voluntary effort.
By this method of action we shall be enabled not only
to see and to know ourselves as we are, but also it will
aid us greatly in our desire and efforts to be what we will
to be.
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