MUCH CHARITY NEEDED:

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 48.

MUCH CHARITY NEEDED:

THERE is too much harsh judgment in the air at all times. Perhaps it is growing these last few years. However that may be, harsh judgment will not fit a Christian to do the best work. We must be tender and kind and loving in our thoughts and in our estimates of others. It may be they do not deserve it; it may be there are a thousand seeming reasons why we ought to be otherwise; but, after all, is there anything more like Christ, is there anything that will actually do us so much good, as a heart full of sympathy, full of the tender Christ love for the erring? We do not mean by this a weak sentimentalism, by any means, or underestimating the evil that is in the world, or underestimating the evil deeds of those whom we are called upon to deal with one way or another; but let us be charitable; let us be kind; let us go more than half way; let us err to this one side rather than to the other.

"It was the sympathy and kindness of one Christian worker that put me on my feet. If it had been harshness, it would only have driven me the other way."

He is now not only on his feet, but a prosperous, successful, earnest, working Christian.

A young girl said, "It was the sympathy and kindness in the voice of a Christian lady that saved me and brought me to my senses and showed me what Christ was like."

She is now happy, has a happy and joyous home, with her own children about her.

"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; . . . beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."—Union Gospel News.