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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 17, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 25.

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Forbear.

THE great secret is to learn to bear with each other's failings; not to be blind to them—that is either an impossibility or a folly. We must see and feel them. If we do neither, they are not evils to us, and there is obviously no need of forbearance. But to throw the mantle of affection around them, concealing them from each other's eyes; to determine not to let them chill the affections; to resolve to cultivate good-tempered forbearance, because it is the only way of mitigating the present evil—always with a view to ultimate amendment.