The Golden Rule | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 15.

The Golden Rule.

“MAN’S inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn,” is a truth known to every one. Painful evidences of it may be seen every day and in every community in various and multiform ways. Where is the antidote, the substitute? It is found in what is denominated the golden rule, “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” Mat. 7:12. Let us suppose that this scripture were adopted generally as the rule of action. What a transformation there would be. There would be less evil-speaking and less bearing of false witness, and hate would give place to love. There would be less fraud in the manufacture and sale of goods; fewer faulty pieces of workmanship and articles would prove to be as represented. There would be less oppression of the widow and orphan, and it would not take the whole of an estate to pay for settling it up. There would be less contracting of debts without the probability or disposition to pay; the injunction, “Pay what thou owest,” would be observed. There would be fewer men to engage in deadly conflict, and the manufacture and sale of death-dealing instruments would be materially diminished. In short, man would love his neighbor as himself, and instead of injuring him in person or estate, he would strive to do him all the good in his power. —Sel.