Silence of Modesty

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The late Stowell Scott, known in literary circles as Henry Seton Merriman, had a father who severely repressed his son’s literary aspirations, compelling the young man to publish his earlier efforts under the pseudonym which afterwards became so famous. One day the old man picked up one of these books and said, “If you could write as well as this Seton Merriman, now, it might be worthwhile going on with it.” The father never learned his son’s secret; he kept it with lowly modesty until the father’s death. How few could have done this. How hard not to let the left hand know what the right has been doing (see Matt. 6:3).

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