p. 11 | How to Meet Criticism

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 23, 1908

How to Meet Criticism

When a man is tempted to let loose his worst side, it is a good time to put forth his best. Nothing stirs up ugly blood quicker, in most of us, than to be sharply criticized, or denounced, or opposed when we know we are right. Yet that is the time of all times when we need to give evidence that the attack is unjust,—and a show of temper is not good evidence. There is a better way to meet criticism. Mr. Gordon shows how Christ met it, when he writes: “Opposition and criticism are apt to stir us to strike back with the same sort of thing. With him [Jesus] they seemed only to call out the good still more, and to make it clearer and stronger. Opposition of every sort seemed to be spelled opportunity by him. So he taught us what we can do, and should do.” Suppose we try this the next time our blood is boiling from an unjust attack. It is terribly disconcerting to the critic.—Sunday School Times.