Human beings, ourselves given to evil, often make one of four errors in dealing with the tempted and the erring. The first is to not deal at all with the struggler. The second is to deal with him while avoiding his struggle. The third is to deal untenderly with him. The fourth is to fetch someone else after him.
Of the rebuke that is love,
Of the blow that wounds to heal,
Of the warning that speaks hope,
we all have need to learn.
We cannot read the heart.
Neither can we know its struggle and pain.
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