SETTLE DIFFICULTIES RIGHT

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 23, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 9.

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SETTLE DIFFICULTIES RIGHT.

Nothing is settled permanently until it is settled right. Shifts, concealments, subterfuges, and evasions amount to nothing. A wrong may be apologized for, defended, indorsed, covered up, lied about, daubed over, winked at, or silently endured; but so long as it exists, there is trouble in store. Build your house as big as you like, if there is a wrong in the foundation, you have put powder under the whole concern. While that is there, nothing can make the structure safe. By and by the spark will find the train, and then comes an explosion, and the whole mass goes hurtling in the air.
From every wrong decision there lies an appeal. It may be to conscience; it may be to impartial men; or it may be to the righteous Judge upon the great white throne. However the matter may be stifled, smoothed over, or misrepresented, every wrong not righted will come up and keep coming up.