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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Martyrdom of St John the Baptist
DESCRIPTION:HOW JOHN THE BAPTIST \nREBUKED SIN \nFrom a sermon by St John Henry Newman \n◊◊◊ \nSt John the Baptist has a most difficult office to fulfill; that of rebuking a \nking… The Holy Baptist rebuked Herod without making him angry; therefore he \nmust have rebuked him with gravity\, temper\, sincerity\, and an evident good-will \ntowards him. On the other hand\, he spoke so firmly\, sharply\, and faithfully\, that \nhis rebuke cost him his life… \nNow\, if it be asked\, what rules can be given for rebuking vice? – I observe\, \nthat\, as on the one hand to perform the office of a censor requires a maturity and \nconsistency of principle seen and acknowledged\, so is it also the necessary result \nof possessing it. They who reprove with the greatest propriety\, from their weight \nof character\, are generally the very ones who are also best qualified for \nreproving. To rebuke well is a gift which grows with the need of exercising it. Not \nthat any one will gain it without an effort on his part; he must overcome false \nshame\, timidity\, and undue delicacy\, and learn to be prompt and collected in \nwithstanding evil; but after all\, his mode of doing it will depend mainly on his \ngeneral character. The more his habitual temper is formed after the law of \nChrist\, the more discreet\, unexceptionable\, and graceful will be his censures\, \nthe more difficult to escape or to resist. \nWhat I mean is this: cultivate…a cheerful\, honest\, virile temper; and you \nwill find fault well\, because you will do so in a natural way. Aim at viewing all \nthings in a plain and candid light\, and at calling them by their right names. Be \nfrank\, do not keep your notions of right and wrong to yourselves\, nor\, on some \nconceit that the world is too bad to be taught the Truth\, suffer it to sin in word or \ndeed without rebuke. Do not allow friend or stranger…to advance false \nopinions\, nor shrink from stating your own\, and do this in singleness of mind \nand love. \nPersons are to be found\, who tell their neighbors of their faults in a \nstrangely solemn way\, with a great parade\, as if they were doing something \nextraordinary; and such persons not only offend those whom they wish to set \nright\, but also foster in themselves a spirit of self-complacency. Such a mode of \nfinding fault is inseparably connected with a notion that they themselves are far \nbetter than the parties they blame; whereas the single-hearted Christian will \nfind fault\, not austerely or gloomily\, but in love; not stiffly\, but naturally\, gently\, \nand as a matter of course\, just as he would tell his friend of some obstacle in his \npath which was likely to throw him down\, but without any absurd feeling of \nsuperiority over him\, because he was able to do so. His feeling is\, “I have done a \ngood office to you\, and you must in turn serve me.” \nAnd though his advice be not always taken as he meant it\, yet he will not \ndwell on the pain occasioned to himself by such a result of his interference; \nbeing conscious\, that in truth there ever is much to correct in his mode of doing \nhis duty\, knowing that his intention was good\, and being determined any how to \nmake light of his failure\, except so far as to be more cautious in the future \nagainst even the appearance of rudeness or intemperance in his manner.
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