Gems from the Goldmine of the Scripture

“Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against you. .. .” Luke 17:3 There was a young minister, who soon after his arrival in his first congregation met up with a parishioner who strongly disliked him. The man refused to talk to him. What made matters even worse was, that while this minister was preaching his opponent sat shuffling his feet and making all kinds of distur­bances to express his disapproval. At first he did this from the back of the church, but later even took the...