A PERSON not fully established in Christ was recently giving us a little of her experience, " I used to expect Christians," said she, " to be perfect, and would say to my friend, who professed to be saved, You are only a deceiver, for you do things and say things you should not.' "
“You held the looking-glass up to your friend?" we said.
“Yes," was the ready reply, " and then I held it up to myself, and began to look at myself, and say, You are not a Christian: how can you be one, inconsistent as you are?' "
Now, this is an experience common to many. What we have to do, as to our fellow christians, is, in love, to look for Christ in them; and what we have to do, as to ourselves, is, by faith, to see that we are in Christ. We have not to look at the faults of others, neither have we to look in ourselves for goodness.