Excerpt from Self-Sacrifice: The Grandest Manifestation of the Divine, and the True Principle of Christian Life; Or the Lost Power of Christian Zeal Restored to the Church Care also must be taken to distinguish be tween self - seeking and self-sacrificing in reli gious endeavours. The one, displaying itself in connection with the externals Of religious life, will produce formalism, and secure dis appointment and grief. The other, Operating internally, will reveal itself in the life, and pro duce the loveliest phase Of religious character, Opening up the well-spring Of pure bliss in the soul, and producing the most generous and beneficent deeds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.