Results of Well-Doing by H. Clay Trumbull

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1885

Results of Well-Doing.

By H. Clay Trumbull

THERE is no surer way of convincing others that we have a right spirit than by showing a right spirit. And, in the long run, a loving forbearance, and a loving deference, will tell on the hardest heart. A bad man is not easily convinced that he is bad, by being opposed and abused. But if he is treated with undeserved and unexpected kindness, he may be led to think how unworthy he is of such treatment. Even unworthy representatives of God, in places of authority or influence, are more likely to recognize their own unworthiness, and their injustice toward those with whom they have dealt unfairly, through seeing the God-fearing spirit of those whom they had counted their opponents, than through any deserved rebukes of those who would assume to mete out to them God's justice. There is, in fact, no better way of securing the results of well-doing than by doing well, persistently and unswervingly, and leaving the results to God.—H. Clay Trumbull.