Chasing Lies | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 2, 1882

Chasing Lies.

A LIE is a bad thing to run at large. It damages, rages, devours. More poisonous than a serpent, it often ruins not only health but reputation and usefulness. Every lie should be stopped. But whose business is it to chase a lie? Who let it loose? The man who let it loose is bound to catch it again; but a man of truth is under no obligation to chase and catch other people's lies. Suppose some man or a dozen men send forth a falsehood about me, am I obliged to spend my days and years in chasing it and contradicting it? By no means. Let those who made it attend to their own word or meet the responsibility of it in the reckoning day. Every man concerned in sending forth a false statement must purge himself of it, or give account to God for what he has done. God holds men to very strict accountability in these respects, and every man who thinks to dwell in God's tabernacle must look well to his words and "refrain his lips that they speak no guile."-The Safeguard.