Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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Aran now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote e new commandment unto
thee, but which we had from the beginning, that we love one another And this
is love, that we walk after his commandments.-ll John i. 5,6.
$'.f"'.f"1'9 ERE John makes it clear that brotherly love
'B la' must be maintained in our covenant relations
i' q' with God, otherwise we should fail in ex-
;**q"*:a pressing His real love nature. We all have
experienced how easy it is for the darker
forces to get us to babble maliciously against our brother,
and to stir up contention and anger on the slightest cause.
If we give way to our passions we are not a helper to our
brother in the truth, but an instrument to tear him away
from the work which God has begun in him. Remember,
"Their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause
against thee"(Pr. xxiii.11); for all who give way to their
passions will be cast out from among his people. For it
is said in Proverbs (xxii. 10): "Cast out the scorner, and
contentions shall go out; yea strife and reproach shall
cease."
To ridicule another is as great an evil as any of
the other evils that humanity is subject to.
For when
we ridicule one, it is usually because we are condemning
that one for not obeying our wishes. Hence ridicule often
springs from the meanness that we imagine we see in
another. In indulging in ridicule we thereby become murderers
of our brother's
higher nature.
It is a sad state of affairs, when some of those who are
thought to be well along in the path of righteousness, fail