Sparks of Resentment

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 26, 1882

Sparks of Resentment

NOT a few of the misunderstandings and quarrels that embitter families against each other, and even destroy the peace of neighborhoods, are the result of matters of but little consequence. An unneighborly deed, and an intentional or fancied slight, a single impertinent word or act, a refusal to grant a small favor, etc. etc. These, and many like them, have been like sparks dropped on a fuse that, sooner or later, have produced an explosion. First there was a little smouldering resentment, that, as time went on, broke out into the fizz and splutter of wordy invectives; then manifestations of growing intensity, and at last, a rush, as it were, into flame, and an explosion that startled the community. Human nature is very powderish. No one has any business to be throwing sparks around that may reach that powder magazine. “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise.”—S. S. Times.