FINDING FAULT by Jos. Clarke

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 9, 1867

FINDING FAULT.

By Jos. Clarke

How natural it is to find fault! Ever since our mother Eve found fault with the Creator for placing a forbidden tree in paradise, it has been the practice of our race to find fault with some one, and as often with wise and good arrangements, as with those that are faulty.

The parent freely spends his life for his children, who very often repay the debt by finding fault with their best and truest friend, whose soul is bound up in them, but who dies of grief and sorrow, because those for whom his life has wasted away, are ungrateful.

Pupils sometimes plant a thorn in the pillow of the devoted teacher by finding fault. Benefactors are often saddened because their gifts have only sharpened the greed of those who partook of their bounty; and they are found fault with because their favors were not large enough. Novices find fault with men of tried experience, and the prophet whose intercessions weigh more with God than all the world besides, is blamed as being the troubler of Israel.

Finding fault with God and with his servants, Moses and Aaron, was the sin which brought much evil upon the host of Israel. Let us avoid this sin.

JOS. CLARKE.