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

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and righteous and truthful souls 'who have been reading
it thruout the ages have lent it.
Again, others find it very easy to tell the truth, if it in
no way implicates one that they love. _'
Those who have a
strong paternal or maternal love will find this true. To
tell the truth when it will severely implicate one that we
love requires a strong character. We often find passages
in the Bible where the thought of mercy and truth are
coupled together, and indeed they are for to be truthful
is always to be merciful, altho at times it does not seem
so. For if we lie to shield another, we are only putting
off 'the evil day, when every evil thing and every good
thing will be brought to
light.
Some think it a very easy thing to tell the truth, but
on the contrary, it often takes very great wisdom.
tell every thing that we know is not always telling the
truth.
For in sodoing we often mislead people more
than if we kept silent.
Those who have knowledge and do not impart it at the
right time or place but keep quiet when duty calls them
to speak, lie, and cause others to suffer as much as if they
had voiced an untruth.
Suspicion, imagining evil of our fellows, is often the
worst kind of untruth; especially is this the case if indulged
in concerning one who has started on the path;
for those who have been awakened by the Spirit are
more sensitive and are more easily affected by thoughts
of discredit directed toward them.
Again, we hear people making distinctions as to the
quality of lies; they call some white lies and some black
lies; but we fail to find any such distinction 'in Holy Writ.
And if those who make such distinction will analyze their
thoughts carefully, they will find that the lies that they
themselves tell, they are apt to regard as white; while
the ones that theirneighbor tells, they are likely to regard
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