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The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline - Contents
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    Facts Not to be Harshly Spoken

    “Frequently the truth and the facts are to be plainly spoken to the erring, to make them see and feel their error that they may reform. But this should ever be done with pitying tenderness, not with harshness or severity, but considering one’s own weakness, lest he also be tempted. When the one at fault sees and acknowledges his error, then, instead of grieving him, and seeking to make him feel more deeply, comfort should be given. In the sermon of Christ upon the Mount, he said, ‘Judge not, 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.’ Our Saviour reproved for rash judgment. ‘Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye; and behold a beam is in thine own eye?’ It is frequently the case that while one is quick to discern the errors of his brethren, he may be in greater faults himself, but be blind to them.”-Ibid., Vol. III, 93.COOD 45.4

    “The Lord would teach his servants great carefulness in all their motives. ‘Let both grow together.’ Do not forcibly pull up the tares, lest in rooting them up, the precious blades will become loosened. Both ministers and church-members should be very cautious, lest they get a zeal not according to knowledge. There is danger of doing too much to cure difficulties in the church, which if left alone, will frequently work their own cure. It is bad policy to take hold of matters in any church prematurely. We shall have to exercise the greatest care, patience, and self-control, to bear these things, and not go to work in our own spirit to set them in order.”-Ibid., 113, 114.COOD 46.1

    “We are not to bruise the souls of the erring, but to go them armed with humility and prayer. When the gospel minister, with his heart subdued by the love and grace of Christ, comes in touch with human minds, he can reveal his superior qualifications, not by destroying hope and courage, but by inspiring faith in the faithless, by lifting up the hands that hang down, and confirming the feeble knees.”-The Review and Herald, November 21, 1899.COOD 46.2

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