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PREMATURE DECISION.—

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 3, 1859

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 13, No. 15.

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PREMATURE DECISION.—

I have been into the studio of a printer.—He had an unfinished sketch in hand. Did I judge of his merits as an artist by that unfinished sketch? No. To have done so would have been quite unfair, and he might have properly complained that I did him injustice. Wait, he would have said, “till the piece is completed, till I have exhausted upon it all my skill—till it has received the last touch of my pencil.”
Thus God tells us relative to His works—“to judge nothing before the time.” And yet we act very differently. We pass sentence upon his proceedings while yet they are in a state of progression. Wait till His designs are accomplished. Wait till his plans are fully executed. Wait till the restitution of all things. Wait till God has done—till the divine limner has finished; and then the production of infinite wisdom and benevolence will speak for itself.—Sel.