It was a willful choice - to shun reputation and become a servant. Thank God for those who once again are being called to such holy ground, seeking to decrease that He may increase. True prophets die unknown. God gives them their dues only after they die. If I as a minister am gaining a larger, more widespread reputation, something is missing in my message.
Self is too prominent.
Christ should be gaining, I should be losing recognition. I should begin to be less known as the years go by until, like Paul, I end up shut in with God. Recently I wrote to the brethren who manage Kingston Trust in England. These godly men have given their lives to the distribution of books written by J. B. Stoney, Darby, Coates, and other pious English men of God who are now with the Lord. These men have stirred my soul.