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A Double Rebuke

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 15, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 7.

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A Double Rebuke

“Is she a Christian?” asked a celebrated missionary in the East, of one of the converts who was speaking unkindly of another person.
“Yes, I think she is,” was the reply.
“Well, then, since Jesus loves her in spite of that, why is it that you can’t?”
The rebuke was felt, and the fault-finder instantly withdrew. Some days later, the same one was speaking to the missionary in a similar spirit about another person. The same question was put—“Is she a Christian?”
In a half-triumphant tone, as if the speaker were beyond the reach of gunshot this time, it was answered, “I doubt if she truly is.”
“O, then,” rejoined the missionary, “I think you and I should feel such tender pity for her soul as to make any harsher feeling about her quite impossible.” — Family Treasury.