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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 10, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 44.

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FOUR ALL BAD.

FOUR kinds of bad examples do us harm: 1. Those we imitate. 2. Those we proudly exult over. 3. Those which drive us into an opposite extreme. 4. Those which lower our standard. A man is always in danger of being satisfied, if he does not excel; and excellence is relative. Whence it comes that bad examples do much greater amount of evil among those who do not follow them. For one who is corrupted by becoming as bad as a bad example, there are ten that are debased by becoming content with being better.—Sel.