Wise Chastisement

Thursday. Heb. 12: 14-17.

Chastisement doesn’t mean an actual whip, though with some it may include it, when they haven’t strength enough, or love enough, for the higher, better level. It means instruction, information, training, that a man can see where he is wrong. But it means more, doing it so lovingly, tactfully, patiently, that he not only knows he’s been wrong, but he wants to do right; and, more yet, he makes a start that way.

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

Restored from a scan of the 1918 edition, with page headers and numbers removed and words rejoined across line breaks. Scan-derived text, still being proofread; compare the original scan before quoting.