SOMETHING WRONG

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 10, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 44.

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SOMETHING WRONG.

THERE is something wrong with people who can never see any good in others.
There is something wrong with the man who never takes any interest in religious matters except when it comes his turn to lead the meeting.
There is something wrong with the church member who never misses a baseball game.
There is something wrong with the Martha kind of woman who thinks the church would soon go to pieces if she didn't run it.
There is something wrong with people who take all their troubles to class meeting.
There is something wrong with people who never hear a good word said for the absent without immediately beginning to point out flaws in them.
There is something wrong with the man who thinks he can be religious without letting anybody know it.
There is something wrong with the man who is very noisy in meeting, and very quiet when money or sacrifice for Christian work is wanted.
There is something wrong with the man who is all snarls at home, and all smiles away from home.
There is something wrong with the preaching under which nobody is ever brought to repentance.—Selected.