A LESSON FROM THE HEATHEN by Brooks

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 14, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 15.

A LESSON FROM THE HEATHEN.

By Brooks

I HAVE read a remarkable story of Aristippus, tho but a heathen, who went of his own accord to Æschines, his enemy, and said, “Shall we never be reconciled till we become a table talk to all the country?”

And when Æschines answered he would most gladly be at peace with him, “Remember, then,” said Aristippus, “that tho I were the elder and better man, yet I sought first unto thee.”

“Thou art, indeed,” said Æschines, “a far better man than I, for I began the quarrel, and thou the reconcilement.”

My prayer shall be that this heathen may not rise in judgment against the flourishing professors of our times.—Brooks.