For Well-Doing | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 41.

For Well-Doing.

It is hard to suffer for well-doing and for right feeling. Yet it is better to suffer thus than for the opposite. Paul suffered thus, being bound with a chain for the hope of Israel. And it is a very common thing to be sufferers because of our best intentions, or from being misunderstood by those whom we love. Every parent suffers thus when his child counts him harsh and unkind in denying him unlimited gratification, or resents his wise severity of discipline. How often we find ourselves under censure by a friend because of an act or purpose of sincerest friendship! And every pastor, or teacher, or Christian worker in any sphere, is quite as liable to make enemies, or provoke opposition, from fidelity to the right as from evil speaking or doing. Acting for the highest welfare of those about us, we must not expect to be always free from their misconception and censure. For a time we may be bound with a chain for that which is their hope and desire as well as ours.—Sel.