p. 67 | Feeble Saints

Seventh-Day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 31, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 5

“Feeble Saints.”

It was an amusing distortion of a good hymn, but there was not a little sound philosophy in it, when the negro preacher sang,—

“Judge not the Lord by feeble saints.”

And yet this is precisely what the great majority of unconverted men are doing all the time. They will not go to the Bible and give heed to what God himself says. They have no ear for his voice of mercy that offers them salvation for the taking. They do not pay any attention to the solemn warnings that the Scriptures utter. They judge the Lord by “feeble saints.” They attempt to feed their starving souls on the imperfections of Christians, and poor enough food they find it! Because God’s people are not all that they ought to be, therefore these cavilers will keep aloof from the religion they profess. Because God’s believing followers are not perfect—they do not claim to be—therefore, say these unbelievers, there is no power in religion. Christians cannot claim exemption from criticism. They do not expect it. They know that the eyes of the world are upon them. But they say to the unbeliever, “If you would know the truth, go to the word of God; go to him who is truth; judge not the Lord by feeble saints.”—Christian Witness.