Worthy of Telling by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 8, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 48.

Worthy of Telling

By Editor

There are stories and stories in this world, many of them pure fiction and imagination. Some of them teach useful lessons; most of them are worse than worthless, positively evil in tendency and influence. Other of these stories are based on facts, but neither fact nor fancy is worth the ink and paper used to preserve it.

There are other things, great facts, events, lives, dramas, which are worth the telling in a thousand ways, by ten thousand tongues and pens. There are great events worthy of the finest setting which language affords, and around which human imagination may play its legitimate part in vivifying facts, but not perverting them.

Around great characters, world-molders, and history-builders, may be grouped other lesser lights which may serve to bring out more clearly the lesson taught by the great luminous center.

Preeminent above all other characters which this poor world has known is that of Jesus of Nazareth, many sided, like a beautifully cut diamond, every face of which flashes eternal truth. Every soul who has been moved to portray that true life, has given new views of, that manifold beauty, has revealed more of the manifold wisdom of God which dwelt in that “One altogether lovely.”

The SIGNS OF THE TIMES has a new story to present, in the year to come, upon this Character. The story is entitled, “Shiloh the Man of Sorrows.” It will portray in natural human settings of the time the life of the Master. You will wish to read it. Every one will wish to read it who begins it, and we believe all who read it will be made better by it.

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