p. 16 | No Excuse for Lying

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 16.

No Excuse for Lying

No Excuse for Lying.— It is better to acknowledge ourselves wrong, or mistaken, or forgetful, or negligent, or ignorant, a hundred times a day, than to lie once. And yet there are many who lie — it is an ugly term we know — to cover up some one or more of these derelictions of duty or conduct. We could not do what we said we could and would, and lie to cover our failure. We did not do what we promised to do, and lie and say we did. Sometimes our vanity is wounded by the superior knowledge of some one else, and we attempt to cover it with falsehood or boasting of what we know or have seen. O, quit the miserable practise, and quit it forever. Better to acknowledge what is humiliating, a hundred times, than to tell one lie.