BETTER NOT GET YOUR RIGHTS

Many years ago as a little fellow, I attended a meeting in Toronto where some difficulty had come up, between brethren. I well remember how horrified I was to see men I esteemed and had been taught to respect apparently so indignant with each other. I can remember one man springing to his feet, and with clenched fist saying, “I will put up with a good deal, but one thing I will not allow you to put anything over on me; I will have my rights!””

An old Scotchman who was rather hard of hearing leaned forward, holding his ears and said, “What was that, brother? I did not get that!” “I say, I will have my rights,” the man said. “But you did not mean that, did you? Your rights? If you had your rights, you would be in hell, wouldn’t you. And you are forgetting aren’t you?—that Jesus did not come to get His rights ; He came to get His wrongs, and He got them.””

I can still see that man standing there for a moment like one transfixed, and then the tears broke from his eyes and he said, “Brethren, I have been all wrong. Handle the case as you think best,” and he sat down with his face in his hands and sobbed before the Lord, and everything was settled in three minutes.””

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