p. 16 | Not the Pacific Coast by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 11, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 32.

Not the Pacific Coast.

By Editor

The Evangel, of Buffalo, New York, affects great surprise that a few lines of Tennyson’s “Passing of Arthur” should be published in this paper and credited to Rev. Henry Elliott Mott. They would not have been if Mr. Mott, or the Evangel, or both, had published them with proper credit, or with quotation marks. If we remember correctly, neither was done. The one who selected them had read the “Idylls of the King,” and the lines sounded strangely familiar, but it was not thought worth while to question the Evangel’s honesty or correctness in punctuation. But we now see that we made a mistake, especially when the Evangel writes a proper name—the same paragraph once with initial capitals and once without. After all, dear Evangel, is it not our chief aim to read, and preach, and rightly divide, the blessed Christ, even tho we do fail to remember any quotation of the abundance of good, bad, and indifferent poetry of earth? And then all the people of the Pacific Coast are not responsible for the mistakes of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.