Perils of Ridicule

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1882

Perils of Ridicule.

I know of no principle which it is of more importance to fix in the minds of young people than that of the most determined resistance to the encroachment of ridicule. Give up to the world, and to the ridicule with which the world enforces its dominion, every trifling question of manner and appearance; it is to toss courage and firmness to the winds, to combat with the mass, upon such subjects as these. But learn from the earliest