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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 2, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 24.

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KIND REPROOFS.

By M. Wilcox

How best shall I reprove my brother's sin If he hath done amiss in any way? Shall I not seek his soul to kindly win? Or shall I harshly drive him still away?
Shall I assume the right to pierce his heart? To quench his light already growing dim? Or shall I gently act a nobler part, And render what I would receive from him?
Lord, grant me first my own defects to see, And let my eyes be clear from every beam. And then, whate'er another's failings be, My own will ever still the greatest seem.
No erring heart is won by words unkind, Or softened by reproach and cruel scorn; But gentle words from out a heart refined May teach that heart to know and feel its wrong.
Then let me ne'er reprove except in love, That a brother's grief may humbly share; And help him onward toward our home above, For strife or discord cannot enter there.
M. WILCOX.
Wahjamega, Mich.