Untitled article by L. C. Hutchins

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 3, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 12

THE WAY TO GET RIGHT.

By L. C. Hutchins

Oh! has thy brother deeply sinned, and turns again, repenting, Forgive, as thou wouldst be forgiven.—Be never unrelenting. Let not the slowly healing wound e'er needlessly be riven, And mention not a second time the folly once forgiven. Hunt not with restless, jealous eye for sin upon thy brother, Perhaps within thine heart, unknown, there lurketh such another. Nor let the mote within his eye e'er be thy much loved theme, Unconscious harboring in thine own the ever-blinding beam. Go to the Lord and get the gold; his raiment truly prize. Ask him, and he will give to thee, the ointment for thine eyes. Clear-visioned, then, thou canst remove, or mote, or blinding beam— A nobler song thy heart shall raise, and love shall be the theme. Oh fear not, then, severe reproof, unkindly though the showing, But meekly turn within thyself, and scan thine own misdoing. Perhaps e'en now thy neighbor sees the cancer deeply seated, Perhaps with scent of foul gangrene his senses now are greeted. Oh, ask not at a brother's hand a kind and mollient plaster, To cover the putrescent sore, which yet shall eat the faster. Let not upon the poisoned air, the leprosy be spread, And other's blood be found at last upon thine hands and head. No, let the surgeon's probe go deep, the festering wound be seen, And let the keen but kindly knife excise the foul gangrene, And when thou thus shalt meekly bear the great physician's dealing, Thou'lt own his smiting made thee whole, his wounds have been thy healing.

L. C. HUTCHINS.

Allegan Co., Mich.