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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 21, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 6.

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Let them Alone.

SUPPOSE you are slandered and abused; suppose your friends turn away from you; what then? You can make ten new ones by minding your own business and serving God, where you can regain five old ones by quarreling with your enemies for their confidence. Let them alone; keep about your Master’s work; and by-and-by they will come back, with tears in their eyes, confessing how they have been misled and have wronged you. The world is wide enough for earnest souls; if men elbow and crowd you from your rightful place, go out and find another and a better one. If they persecute you in one city, flee into another; if they lie about you, do not stop to bandy epithets, or waste time over it; every livman who serves God must encounter Satan’s lies; but if you keep on the track you will out-travel the slanderer’s falsehoods, and if you hurry you will distance the devil and his dust.—The Christian.