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sentation. No weight can be attached to their advice or resolutions. You
must bear the divine credentials before you make decided movements
to shape the working of God’s cause.—
Life Sketches, 325
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Criticism Invites Criticism—The work of judging his brother has
not been placed upon any man. “Judge not,” the Saviour says, “that ye
be not judged; for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged:
and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
He who takes upon himself the work of judging and criticizing others,
lays himself open to the same degree of judgment and criticism. Those
who are ready to condemn their brethren, would do well to examine
their own works and character. Such an examination, honestly made,
will reveal the fact that they, too, have defects of character, and have
made grave blunders in their work. If the great Judge should deal with
men as they deal with their fellow workers, they would regard him as
unkind and unmerciful.
“Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye,” the
Saviour asked, “but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of
thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite,
first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see
clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”—
The Review
and Herald, September 14, 1905
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