MANNERS.- | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1873

MANNERS.—

“I make it a point of morality,” said a writer, “never to find fault with another for his manners. They may be awkward or graceful, blunt or polite, polished or rustic; I care not what they are if the man means well, and acts from honest intentions, without eccentricity or affectation. All men have not the advantages of good society, as it is called, to school themselves in all its fantastic rules and ceremonies, and if there is any standard of manners, it is well founded on reason and good sense, and not upon these artificial regulations. Manners, like conversation, should be extemporaneous, and not studied.”