THAT FELLOW | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 8, 1881

THAT FELLOW.

A SUNDAY-SCHOOL superintendent, one day took in hand a class which had no teacher, and which had recently been gathered from the streets. He commenced talking with them of sin and salvation, and in the course of his conversation inquired, "Is there any sinner in this class?" Instantly one of the brightest boys pointed to another boy at the end of the seat, "Yes, that fellow down there."

The number of persons who can see sinfulness in "that fellow" is very large. It is not hard to find sinners in this world; the difficulty is in finding saints. The Lord has looked down from Heaven to see if there were any that did seek after God, and he declared that they had all gone out of the way, that there was "none righteous, no not one." Many, however, are very apt to see the sins of others much more clearly than those which they themselves have committed. My one sin will be ten times as hurtful to me as a hundred sins committed by my neighbor, and the thing which is most important for me to do is to ascertain and correct my own faults, rather than to busy myself with the faults of others. When the beam is taken from my own eye, it will be comparatively easy to pluck the mote out of the eye of my brother. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God;" and the sinner that needs special looking after and special watching over, is not "that fellow," but the one person whose sins most concern and most injure us, and will, if persisted in, most surely consign us to ruin.—The Christian.