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THINK NO EVIL

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 27, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 11.

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THINK NO EVIL.

By Rebekah Smith

If by our words or acts none suffer wrong, To us 't is thought no blame can e'er belong. But this meets not Heaven's high and searching test; That looks at thoughts as well as words expressed.
The rule is given that we must think no ill; If any wrong us, we must love them still, Must do them good, and for them ever pray, That truth may lead them all from error's way.
To think no evil when we are betrayed, When even a subject of reproach we're made, When we are falsely charged, traduced, reviled— This needs a heart that's pure and undefiled.
Thus to forgive when we are wronged, abused, To render good when thus unjustly used— This is to reach on earth perfection's height, Whence we can scatter beams of heavenly light.
A Heaven on earth is then by us begun; This way alone the Christian race is run. And all who thus unto the end endure, Possess a hope of Heaven that's bright and sure.
REBEKAH SMITH. West Wilton, N. H., Jan., 1872.