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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 16, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 29.

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CRITICISING

By Eugene Leland

ELDER EUGENE LELAND.
It seems to be much easier for some persons to criticise a speaker than it is for them to grasp what he says. Perhaps that is the reason why they criticise him.
We often hear one of these critics make a remark concerning a sermon or a lecture, something like this: “I think he thrashed over a great deal of straw for a very little wheat.”
Many times it depends on the way one looks at what he hears as to whether it is straw or wheat. “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he,” is the old-time proverb. If he thinks that what he hears is straw and chaff, to him it will be straw and chaff. And as a man partakes of the character of that upon which he feeds, he will become straw and chaff. But the Scripture says that in the gathering time the wheat will be gathered into the Lord’s garner, but the chaff will be burned with fire unquenchable. Brethren and friends, don’t criticise.