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Right Means and Right Ends

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 23, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 37.

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Right Means and Right Ends

THE end belongs to God; the choosing of the means to us. Human wisdom will use means which are intrinsically wrong, thinking that a good end will justify their use, and that a defeat or disaster will be the outcome of the use of good means. This only illustrates man's folly and unbelief. He who uses good means can leave the result with God. But the use of wrong means to accomplish a right result, may seem to promise success, but it will ultimately prove ruinous to him who has committed himself to such a method. Right is always ultimately successful. Wrong is ever ultimately defeated.