Is there any danger, in the sanctified life, of a censorious, fault-finding spirit?
There is, and perhaps more damage to holiness has resulted from this, than from any other cause. Real holiness gives us very clear views of right and wrong. It also gives us a hearty love for the right, and hatred to the wrong. If this is not carefully guarded, when our attention is called to others, it will make us very exacting. I could not use tobacco, but I apply my light to a brother whose father, and whose father’s father lived and died in its use, and went to glory. I say to him, brother if you don’t quit the use of tobacco you will be damned! God has taught me that he is not pleased to have me in connection with Odd Fellowship or Free Masonry. I therefore conclude and declare, that all who are thus associated are in the open way to hell! I have found out that it is not best for me to use tea and coffee. I therefore decide that the profession of those who do use it, is a sham! How inconsistent and unscriptural it is, to condemn people for doing what they are not yet able to see
