Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — Don’t Find Fault. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Find Fault.

“To be able to point put the failures of others, is no evidence of piety in ourselves. Any one can tell when a train is off the track; but every one cannot put it back. It requires skill and patience to do that. A child can burn a building which required years of patient toil to construct There are those who flatter themselves that they enjoy a high degree of piety, because they oppose srongly the popular fashionable religion of the day. But infidels do as much as that. If you would give evidence of genuine, New Testament piety, you must build up as well as tear down. When you show others that they are wrong, show them also a more excellent way. If existing church organizations fail of doing the work they should, assist in establishing a better. You may shun responsibilities and take things easy, by standing outside and finding fault, but the temple of God will never go up in that way. If you do not like the scaffold on which your brethren are building, instead of tearing their’s down, put,up a better one, on which you and those who think as you do may stand and build. Do something instead of finding fault. This will answer occasionally, but It is a poor business to follow. It will neither benefit you nor the world, nor the cause ot Christ. ‘Arise and build.’ Take off your coat and go to work. ‘He that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.* Barnett Ohrutian