Treatment of Enemies

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 27, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 26.

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Treatment of Enemies

TREATMENT OF ENEMIES.—There are many who will endure any hardship, make any exertion, bear any sacrifice, for their friends, for whom they can never do enough; but toward their enemies, they are unkind, implacable, and resentful. The man who has injured them, they can never forgive; for him they have no kindness, but hold him in contempt, aversion and neglect. But Christianity requires a higher and more disinterested virtue than this, for it commands us to be kind to our enemies.—Sel.