Although Jehovah permitted Satan to divest Job of his possessions and even of his children, the Archdeceiver failed to crack that upright man’s integrity.
One judicial decision ruled: “A ‘reasonable doubt’ is such a doubt as an upright man might entertain in an honest investigation after truth.” —“Black’s Law Dictionary,” p.
Our initial appraisal is this is a serious report prepared by a Mission led by an upright man with an unquestioned track record, and that it is worthy of our full consideration.
Wrote Augustine: “God, the author of natures, not of vices, created man upright; but man, being of his own will corrupted and justly condemned, begot corrupted and condemned children . . .
His qualities as a democrat and his career in the service of his country, together with his personal virtues as a just and upright man, provide a valuable example of leadership for the new generations of that sister African nation.