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THE PATIENCE OF GOD

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 9, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 13, No. 3.

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THE PATIENCE OF GOD.

By J. Bruce

How wonderful it is! Think what he hears, and sees, and yet though immaculately holy, so that sin is infinitely offensive to him, and infinitely powerful, so that he can punish it, how he spares! Take the oaths that are uttered. He hears them all, and they roar up in one horrid chorus to the skies. Take the cries which wrong and outrage extort from widows, orphans, and the oppressed. He hears them all, and how—as Abel's slaughtered corpse called from the ground—must they pierce his ear, and demand vengeance! The blood which is unjustly shed—drawn from the veins of innocence—he sees it all and it is sufficient to make rivers. What a foul stench reeks up from the corrupt cities, dwellings, and hearts of depraved humanity! And it all mounts to him. And yet ye spares—keeps back the struggling thunders. How amazing his patience! He is a God and not man; and therefore his compassion fails not.—J. Bruce.