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

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to take the trouble to reason regarding the things they
give credence to. To a man questioning the correctness
of the tenets of the church a woman said, "We pay our
preacher to think these things out for us, why not accept
what he says?" This did not manifest faith on her part
but simply mental indolence.
Persons who in their ignorance and zeal
become anxious
for the good of others will sometimes say. "I
my brother's keeper." And they .will demand of another,
"Are you not your brother's keeper?" But if one
were to ask, "Who appointed you his keeper?" it seems
there would be but little to answer.
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And indeed, if one
were to ask, "Who is your keeper?" the question would
most likely giveolfense and prompt the answer, "I need
no keeper." Well, if you need no keeper, does your
brother need a keeper? You may think so.
Sometimes we wonder how much that is called upliftwork
is simply a self-righteous desire to meddle with the
affairs of others.
THE Apostle Paul said: "I keep my body under."
That
is, he did not allow his externality to think, and talk,
and act just aimlessly from the force of habit. Sometimes
we say to another, "Do you know that you have a
hibit of doing, or saying, so and so?"
And the answer
is, "No,»I have not noticed it."
Observing this all but universal trait of unconscious
habitual action, Bobbie Burns wrote:
"O wad the powers the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us,
It wad fra mony a blunder free us,
And foolish notion."
We may ask, why is it that we do so many things that
are so observable to others and yet we are entirely uncon-