Courageous Witness to the Truth

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 26, 1880

Courageous Witness to the Truth

being lightly handled in the face of the world.

LET him who would do a worthy work for God and men be manly and brave as well as sincere and earnest. Let him keep clear of the minor key. Let him hide his own griefs and trials with a cloak of cheerful and patient resolutions. Let him not whine, nor croak, nor scold, nor boast. Let him bury the story of his own sufferings out of sight, and instead of asking sympathy for himself, plead for aid to the right cause. Let him not be forward in making his own plans the exponents of God's thoughts, nor accuse his own critics of freshly crucifying Christ. Let him keep his own faith in God steady and his charity toward man sweet. Let him heroically abandon whatever really seems like playing the martyr, and God will afford him opportunities to bear grateful and effectual witness to the truth.—Sel.