Let Us Pull Together by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jan 2, 1913

Let Us Pull Together

By Editor

THE strength of gospel effort is greatly enhanced by the cooperation and harmonious working of the believers. God has committed to us a great work. We can not do it single-handed. We can not accomplish it in our own strength or on independent lines. We must pull together. Divided, we shall fall; united, we shall stand against the forces of the enemy, and go forward in victory.

Satan will ever seek to divide our energies and separate our efforts by inculcating the spirit of suspicion, distrust, alienation, and criticism. We shall see much in others that we do not like. Their plans and policies and methods will not always commend themselves to our judgment. We do not need to watch one another narrowly to see many defects of life and character. And how the enemy rejoices when questions of this character engage our thought and occupy our attention! We need to cultivate continually the spirit of large-heartedness, of kindly benevolence, of tender sympathy, of long patience. Let us disarm the working of suspicion, and place upon the actions of others the best possible construction, realizing that we ourselves, similarly situated, might have done even worse.

We can never argue men into the kingdom. We can not drive our brethren to do right by criticism, but we may draw sinners to Christ by love, and the exercise of this Christian grace the world greatly needs to-day. The church of God needs it; Seventh-day Adventists need it; our families need it; our own hearts cry out for love and sympathy, and we welcome eagerly the spirit of true Christian helpfulness whenever it is shown us. Let this be the spirit which shall actuate us in our relationship to our fellows during the year to come.