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Avoid Strife in the Church

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 22, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 36.

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Avoid Strife in the Church

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Avoid strife, especially in a church. If the cause cannot prosper in quietude, it certainly will not in an uproar. Tares are a trouble, but the rooting of them up may make worse trouble. Courage is a virtue, but a pugilistic tendency is not. It is well to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; but we must not wrestle with flesh and blood, nor fight the Lord's battles with the devil's weapons. "The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God."