“IF I AM WRONG SET ME RIGHT.”
By Uriah Smith
It would be no use to try to reckon up the number of times this sentence greets our eyes in the correspondence that comes to this Office. If a man has a peculiarly disjointed and rickety theory, which is his pet and his all, he is almost sure to want to trundle it out to public gaze through the Review; and after going on with a long and labored effort, and introducing more absurdities than could be refuted in whole pages of the Review, he meekly folds his hands, and says, “Now if I am wrong in all this, just set me right.” Dear Sir, if you were the only one to be “set right,” we might give you some personal attention; but when the cases become so numerous that in stopping to set them all right, we should be able to do little or nothing else, the only thing we can do is to go on with our work, pointing such to the publications in which the truth is fitly framed together, and commending them to study, to common sense, and to prayer. For local treatment, we refer their cases to the physicians of the Health Institute. It is but proper to add that there are not many Sabbath-keepers in the class here alluded to; for in fulfillment of the words of David, as a general rule it can in truth be said, “A good understanding have all they that do his commandments.” Ps. 111:10. U. S.