Judging Others

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 19, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 37.

himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." Verses 12 and 13. We may judge teaching, we may judge fruits. These we may weigh and measure by God's Word, and consequently shun the evil and accept the good; but the judgment of persons, of souls, rests with God alone. To assume to judge as does this writer in the "Pillar of Fire," is to take the same position that the disciples took when they asked our Lord, "Lord, wilt Thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?" Luke 9:54. "But He turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of Man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them."