COMMENDABLE by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1866

COMMENDABLE.

By Editor

The Battle Creek Journal has purged its columns of a class of advertisements which disgrace the pages of most papers of the present day, and disgust all right-minded and moral people. In its issue of Aug. 23, it says:

“Read the new advertisements,—indeed any of them, for all those nauseating advertisements which sicken the sight with quackery and immodest and immoral remedies, have disappeared from the Journal. It does not insert them, and is now presented in a shape that should secure it admission in every family. Conscious that its contents will meet the approbation of all, we solicit additions to its already large subscriptions, and ask patronage for it as the largest and cheapest paper of the kind in the State of Michigan.”

We would that all papers might follow this example of the Journal; but we suppose that for money, publishers will still continue to sell their columns to those vile creatures who put a premium upon immorality, and fatten upon the vices and corruptions of the age. We know of no better paper of its class than the Battle Creek Journal, and we trust the public will show their appreciation of the good step it has taken, by giving it a liberal patronage.