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On Listening to Evil Reports.—

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 24.

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On Listening to Evil Reports.—

The longer I live, the more I feel the importance of adhering to the rules which I have laid down for myself in relation to such matters: viz.,
  1. To hear as little as possible of whatever is to the prejudice of others.
  2. To believe nothing of the kind until I am absolutely forced to it.
  3. Never to drink into the spirit of one who circulates an ill report.
  4. Always to moderate, as far as I can, the unkindness which is expressed toward others.
  5. Always to believe that if the other side were heard, a very different account would be given of the matter.—Sel.