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The Limits of Meekness

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 15, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 2.

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The Limits of Meekness

MEEKNESS, like most other virtues, has certain limits, which it no sooner exceeds than it becomes criminal. Servility of spirit is not gentleness but weakness, and if indulged under the specious appearances it sometimes puts on, will lead to dangerous compliances. They who hear innocence maligned without vindicating it, or religion profaned without resenting it, are wicked, not gentle.