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Getting Even—with What?

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 22, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 34.

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Getting Even—with What?

WHEN one person has wronged another, the unjustly injured person is always, for the time being, on a higher plane than the one who has done the injury. The wronged one has not lost what the other has lost. The only way to make the loss equal is for the injured one to “get even.” Then, in addition to his hurt feelings, he has the satisfaction of knowing that he is now no better than the other fellow. What an ingenious tempter Satan is, to persuade us to add injury to insult unto ourselves! For that is what “getting even” accomplishes; it is lowering ourselves and our standards to the level of the one who has wronged us. How much better to help the other to “get even” with the higher standards which Christ alone can enable us to hold to—love and forgiveness.—Sunday School Times.