P. C. RODMAN by P. C. Rodman

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 20, 1869

P. C. RODMAN

By P. C. Rodman

From Bro. Rodman.

OUR meeting, June 19 and 20, was good. The most of those present spoke of being encouraged to press on in the work of overcoming, while a few that attended complained of being discouraged because of others’ faults. To those I would say, Instead of talking to others of the faults of your brethren, seek the Lord in deep humility for your own sins, and obtain pardon; then in meekness restore such as may be overtaken in fault, and in so doing you may help on the work, instead of helping to tear it down. Heb. vi, 1; James v, 19, 20. Satan and his host will do all that kind of work without Sabbath-keepers’ lending a hand. We are all faulty enough, but do not magnify each other’s faults by thinking them over and talking of them when it cannot possibly do good, but rather injury to yourselves and be a source of discouragement to others.

I would recommend the apostle’s counsel in Phil. iv, 8: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

P. C. RODMAN

Ashaway, R. I.