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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 22, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 12.

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WEAK POINTS.

By J. M. Gallemore

This is a world of imperfections. No such thing as perfection is attained in it—perfection is not of mortals. The person who keeps these facts in his mind, will not only be the more guarded in respect to his own actions, but will at the same time be the better prepared to make due and necessary allowances for the actions of others. All mankind have their weak points. It is true the weakness of some is much greater than that of others and of a very different nature, but there are none entirely exempt. We are very apt to expect too much, or to require too much, of our fellow-men. We fail to make needed and necessary allowances for their failings. We forget that even those whom we look upon as foremost Christians are by no means infallible, and that all that are human are liable to err, and do err.
We expect too much of weak mortals. It is true there are those of whom we have a right to expect much, and who above all others, it appears, have learned of the Great Teacher. But even these have their failings, and though not perhaps as great and as serious as ours, they are still failings. And as there are none of us exempt from our weak points, does it not become us to study well what these weak points are, that we may watch and guard against them? Here is where Satan, with whom we have to war, attacks us. How necessary, then, does it become that we search out these besetting sins, as it were, and with God's help, endeavor earnestly to overcome them!
And let us no longer look upon the faults of others without a proper degree of allowance, and instead of holding them up to the inspection of the world, let us help those in whom we see them to discover and put them away. Let us look more at the motives and good intentions of our fellow-men, and less at those errors that come from natural failings, or from the head and not from the heart. If we will do this, we shall be much happier, our love for erring humanity greater, and our labor in the vineyard of the Lord much more effective.
J. M. GALLEMORE.