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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 23.

Duty

Duty.—Devotion to duty. It is this one element in his character that made the late Rear-Admiral W. T. Sampson the man he was, Mr. Park Benjamin tells us in the Independent. He knew nothing else but to do duty. Hence he was trusted by every one who knew him. Mr. Benjamin also informs us that the Sampson-Schley controversy was not of Mr. Sampson’s origination or continuance. Misguided friends kept up the battle. The real Sampson had ceased to exist. How many times things would seem different at the time, if we knew the truth which is revealed later. How every lesson teaches us that harsh judgment should be deferred till we know—“neither praise nor blame unduly.” Let our own duty be so faithfully done that we shall have no time to sit in judgment on men’s little-understood motives.