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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · May 14, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 20.

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Publishing the Truth

A CORRESPONDENT of the Sunday School Times wrote to the editor thus: “I supposed that your columns were always open to both sides.” In his published reply, the editor said:—
No; the columns of the Sunday School Times are not always open to both sides of a question. . . . The Times has never stated, to the knowledge of the editor, that it is willing to give both sides of any question. It takes its own mission too seriously for any such light-hearted irresponsibility as that. It believes that it has a duty to publish truth, not error.
Any paper which has no higher ambition than to be the organ of a debating society, in which truth and error are given an equal opportunity, forfeits the privilege of educating the people in the knowledge of the truth, and can never lead in any movement for a religious reform. A paper, as well as the preacher, ought to be “set for the defense of the gospel.”