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Overcoming Evil With Good

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 7, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 25.

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Overcoming Evil With Good

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this: that when the injury begins on his part, the kindness begins on ours. If both the ways were equally in our power, yet it is a much more desirable conquest to overcome evil with good, than with evil. By this we can only conquer our enemy, and may perhaps fail in that; but by the other we certainly conquer ourselves, and perhaps our enemy too; overcoming him in the noblest manner, and leading him gently until he be cool, and without force effectually subduing him to be our friend.