Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

1898. {2MCP 637.2}
Attempting to Cover Self by Attack.--Let no one endeavor to cover up his own sins
by revealing the mistakes of someone else. God has not given us this work to do. We
are to leave others to humble their own hearts, that they may come to the light of the
knowledge of God.--MS 56, 1904. {2MCP 637.3}
Wearing Nerves on the Outside.--Those who criticize and condemn one another
are breaking God's commandments and are an offense to Him. They neither love God
638
nor their fellow beings. Brethren and sisters, let us clear away the rubbish of criticism
and suspicion and complaint, and do not wear your nerves on the outside. Some are so
sensitive that they cannot be reasoned with. Be very sensitive in regard to what it
means to keep the law of God and in regard to whether you are keeping or breaking the
law. It is this that God wants us to be sensitive about.--GCB, Apr 1, 1903 (7BC 937.)
{2MCP 637.4}
Counsel to One Who Mistook Pride for Sensitiveness. --You stand ready to
justify yourself by the plea that you are so sensitive, you feel so deeply, you suffer so
much. I saw that all this will not excuse you in the sight of God. You mistake pride for
sensitiveness. Self is prominent. When self is crucified, then this sensitiveness, or
pride, will die; until then you are not a Christian. {2MCP 638.1}
To be a Christian is to be Christlike, to possess humility and a meek and quiet spirit
that will bear contradiction without being enraged or becoming insane. If the deceptive
covering which is about you could be rent asunder so that you could see yourself as
God sees you, you would no longer seek to justify self but would fall all broken upon
Christ, the only One who can remove the defects in your character and then bind you
up.--2T 573 (1870). {2MCP 638.2}
Honest Self-examination.--Would all professed Christians use their investigative
powers to see what evils needed to be corrected in themselves, instead of talking of
others' wrongs, there would be a more healthy condition in the church today. {2MCP
638.3}
Some will be honest when it costs nothing; but when policy will pay best, honesty is
forgotten. Honesty and policy will not work together in the same mind. In time, either
policy will be expelled and truth and honesty reign supreme, or if policy is cherished,
honesty will be forgotten. They are never in agreement; they have nothing in common.
One is the prophet of Baal, the other is the true prophet of God.
639 {2MCP 638.4}
When the Lord makes up His jewels, the true, the frank, the honest, will be looked
upon with pleasure. Angels are employed in making crowns for such ones, and upon
these star-gemmed crowns will be reflected, with splendor, the light which radiates from
the throne of God. --5T 96 (1882). {2MCP 639.1}