p. 100 | Not Yet by G. W. A.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 25, 1868

Not Yet.

By G. W. A.

A DIFFICULTY arises in the minds of some, because the Lord in the use of the gift which he is pleased to employ, says so little about the good qualities in the person reproved, but, on the contrary, dwells mostly upon that which is wrong.

There may be several reasons offered why this is so. 1. There are many wrongs to be corrected before we shall be prepared to stand in the Judgment. 2. One prominent office of the Comforter is to “reprove.” But 3. Perhaps the main reason why so little is said in favor of poor mortals is, we cannot bear it. The time for God to say “Well done,” is still future. Let no one then despise that chastening of the Lord which is so “profitable,” but ever remember that “open rebuke is better than secret love.”

G. W. A.