How to Treat Secret Offense

How to Treat Secret Offense. If a person is offended by the words of another in secret, would it be right for the person so offended to make the offense public before first trying to settle it privately? For an answer, see the Doctrine and Covenants, sec. 42, pages 176-177, which completely answers this question. Please read paragraphs 88-93. The 92nd paragraph contains a full answer to the inquiry: If any shall offend in secret, he or she shall be rebuked in secret, that he or she may have opportunity to confess in secret to him or her whom he or she has offended, and to God, that the Church may not speak reproachfully of him or her.