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EXCELLENT RULES

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 34.

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EXCELLENT RULES.

The following rules are so excellent that they will bear reading at least once a month. They will supply enough “honeyed sweetness” to make any life pleasant and respected.
Be faithful to your sense of right and wrong.
Be reserved in disputes; you don’t know everything, so do not talk as if you were infallible.
Be brave in the battle for right.
Be just to yourself and others.
Be discreet and circumspect in public.
Be hearty in your recognitions and salutations.
Be gentle and affectionate at home.
Be willing to listen as well as to talk.
Be a teacher of noble truths to your household.
Be not a fop nor a fripper.
Be a hero of integrity to friends and servants.
Be willing to do your share of the work of life.
Be willing that others should obtain a share of honors and attentions.
Be a wise counselor in your circle.
Be broad and tolerant; all wisdom is not in your brain; exploded errors have not their dogmatists.
Be not quick to take offense; often none is intended; people are not always thinking of you.
Be a follower of the Golden Rule; it is not only the highest morality, but is a fruitful source of genuine etiquet, and is, withal, but simple justice you owe as much to others as they owe to you.—Cleveland Leader.