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Elder Chick’s Letter
AUTHOR: | Mitchell, William M. |
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ke kindly to his erring
brethren, and nourished the little ones with wholesome words
of gospel truth. This is in harmony with every principle of the
gospel. The strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak.
Nourish, comfort, and speak kindly unto them, though they be
weak in faith.
In this circumstance of Joseph and his brethren many things
come up for our consideration, each of which had its part to
work under the limitations of God’s will and purpose to bring
to pass all that he had promised. Jacob’s special love for Joseph
tended to stir up envy in his brethren against him. “But God
meant it for good.” Joseph’s dreams also had their part to work,
and the telling of them stirred up still greater envy, until they
sold him to a company of Ismaelites, who carried him to Egypt,
where the Lord had a use for him, and so bounded every wicked
act of men, and of a base and treacherous woman, as to bring to
pass everything He had before purposed to be done, just as He
did in the “betrayal and crucifixion of Jesus.”
But we are not at all inclined to discuss this subject now.
Our limited space, as well as other considerations, forbid it. But
the careful reader will see that there is a vast difference between
the control which God exercises over sin and sinners, and his
approval of their wicked works. He does not approve of sin. He
hates and condemns it wherever found. But as he ruleth in the
armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, he
certainly has supreme control over the works of wicked men
and devils, either to defeat their purposes or to turn them into
the channel of his own purpose for good to his people, and for
the glory of his holy name.
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