Samuel Logan Brengle

“ And this He suffered for you, my sister, but you turned your back upon Him because some one ill-treated your husband!
And as I talked she saw Jesus; the sin of the other man faded from her sight and her own sin grew big before her eyes, until she was in tears; then rising, she rushed, sobbing, to the penitent-form to confess her own sin to the Lord, and, I trust, to be restored once more to His favor.
When a man gets this vision of Jesus, he ceases to blame other men, and looks only at his own sin, which he can no longer excuse. ”

“ And Saul said..... I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me..... but the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed.' Thus Saul tried to cover his own sin by confessing the sins of others; but Samuel answered him, 'Thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king.' So Saul lost his kingdom.
And men still lose their crown of peace and salvation and God's favor by sinning, by disobeying, and by confessing the sins of others instead of their own. ”

“ And you that have to deal with people who are always confessing other people's sins, let me beg of you to deal with them very tenderly, though very firmly, lest you forget 'the hole of the pit whence ye are digged,' and lest you become severe with your brother for a fault from which you may think yourself delivered, but are not entirely free. ”