"I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." Philippians 3:8
The Swedish Nightingale, Jennie Lind, won great success as an operatic singer, and money poured into her purse. Yet she left the stage while she was singing her best, and never returned to it. She must have missed the money, the fame, and the applause of thousands, but she was content to live in privacy.
Once an English friend found her sitting on the steps of a bathing machine on the sea sands with a Bible on her knee, looking out into the glory of a sunset. They talked, and the conversation drew near to the inevitable question: "Oh, Madame Goldschmidt, how is it that you come to abandon the stage at the very height of your success?"
"When every day," was the quiet answer, "it made me think less of this (laying a finger on the Bible) and nothing at all of that (pointing to the sunset), what else could I do?"
May I not covet the wold's greatness! It will cost me the crown of life!
By Mrs. Charles E. Cowman taken from "Springs in the Valley"
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