Advice from an unnamed friend of Asahel Nettleton on responding to criticism:
All the advice which he received from that brother was contained in the following anecdote:—“A man once said to an aged clergyman, ‘My neighbours are slandering me, and what shall I do’—‘Do your duty,’ said the clergyman, ‘and think nothing about it. If they are disposed to throw mud, let them throw mud; but do not attempt to wipe it off, lest you should wipe it all over you.’”
—Bennet Tyler, The Life and Labours of Asahel Nettleton (Banner of Truth, 1975), 338.
Mind you, good advice as this is, it doesn’t get us off the hook when the criticism is valid and acknowledgment or repentance is called for.
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