CALUMNY

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 15, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, Nos. 8 & 9.

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

We ought to attend to our own business and not meddle with the affairs of others unless we are applied to, to render a service. We should condemn no one unheard.

Look on slanderers as direct enemies to civil society; as persons without honor, honesty, or humanity. Whoever entertains you with the faults of others, designs to serve you in a similar manner.

The great Zimmerman justly observes,—“That there is always something great in that man against whom the world exclaims; at whom every one throws a stone, and on whose character all attempt to fix a thousand crimes without being able to prove one.”