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Help In Daily Living
may cut the cords of influence that should have bound their hearts to
ours.
Influence of a Consistent Christian Life
The consistent life, the patient forbearance, the spirit unruffled
under provocation, is always the most conclusive argument and the
most solemn appeal. If you have had opportunities and advantages
that have not fallen to the lot of others, consider this, and be ever a
wise, careful, gentle teacher.
In order to have the wax take a clear, strong impression of the seal,
you do not dash the seal upon it in a hasty, violent way; you carefully
place the seal on the plastic wax and quietly, steadily press it down
until it has hardened in the mold. In like manner deal with human
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souls. The continuity of Christian influence is the secret of its power,
and this depends on the steadfastness of your manifestation of the
character of Christ. Help those who have erred, by telling them of your
experiences. Show how, when you made grave mistakes, patience,
kindness, and helpfulness on the part of your fellow workers gave you
courage and hope.
Until the judgment you will never know the influence of a kind,
considerate course toward the inconsistent, the unreasonable, the un-
worthy. When we meet with ingratitude and betrayal of sacred trusts,
we are roused to show our contempt or indignation. This the guilty
expect; they are prepared for it. But kind forbearance takes them by
surprise and often awakens their better impulses and arouses a longing
for a nobler life.
“Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual,
restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest
thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the
law of Christ.”
Galatians 6:1, 2
.
All who profess to be children of God should bear in mind that
as missionaries they will be brought into contact with all classes of
minds. There are the refined and the coarse, the humble and the proud,
the religious and the skeptical, the educated and the ignorant, the rich
and the poor. These varied minds cannot be treated alike; yet all need
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kindness and sympathy. By mutual contact our minds should receive