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The Cruelty of Sarcasm

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 23, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 4.

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The Cruelty of Sarcasm

By Sunday School Times

You and I are good Christians—do we ever grip some tender heart with red-hot pincers of cruel sarcasm? Have we ever in our minds a hateful thing heating itself into a bitter word? Is there any one in "our church" whom we are inclined to persecute unless he change his views on some polysyllabic doctrine until they conform to our own? Is there no one among our brethren whom we sometimes "talk about"? Ah, friends, the heart is more sensitive than the body. A broken heart aches longer than a crushed hand. A tender, wounded spirit quivers with anguish that the body broken at the wheel and beaten with rods never felt.