“Doing Evil that Good May Come.”
By R. F. Cottrell
HAVE you read the short article with this heading in the REVIEW of Dec. 9, 1873, No. 26? If not, please read it; and if it has passed out of mind, please read it again with such deliberation and care as to take its full meaning. The idea should not be forgotten that to do good—to do the very things which are taught by the word and Spirit of God—is the only way that is calculated to produce good results. Those are deceived who yield to wrong and pernicious practices in order to conciliate and gain an influence over those that are wedded to these practices. The victory, in such cases, is always on the side of wrong. Those who do this, instead of gaining an influence over others in favor of the right, are themselves led and controlled by the influence of others to do wrong. Let those who would follow the example of Paul and his associates, so act in all things that any report of their yielding to wrong for good results can only be “slanderous.”