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Don’t Be Mulish!

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Apr 6, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 14.

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Don’t Be Mulish!

SOME of us prize very-highly a quality that we imagine is firmness, and are inclined to be boastful that when we take a stand, nobody can persuade us to change our base.
“This rock shall fly, as soon as I,” is our declaration. Friends, nine tenths of the ultra-firm people are simply shockingly and abominably mulish. They want their own way. Obstinacy and firmness have little in common. The first is the bulwark of a weak and vain character; the second is the outgrowth of strength and devotion to principle. But do not let us mistake the one for the other. Mulishness is as provoking in a man as in a beast.—Selected.