Truth, Bigotry, and Christian Love
By S. S. Times
It is one thing to be right one's self; it is another thing to win others to the right. One person who holds firmly to essential truth, may make that truth offensive to others by his bigotry in its defense. Another person who holds with like firmness to the same truth may make error winsome to others by his manner of denouncing bigoted defenders of truth. In each case the one who holds to the truth is all right for himself, and all wrong for others. Bigotry for the truth may be a means of promoting error; and so may a denunciation of bigotry. Holding the truth in such love as will make one loving towards both bigots and skeptics is as rare a grace as it is admirable.—S. S. Times.