Moral Teaching in Secular Papers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 17, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 49.

Moral Teaching in Secular Papers

By Editor

Sometimes we get better moral teaching from a purely secular paper than we do from religious. For instance, Dr. Lyman Abbott, the editor of the Outlook, at a recent club dinner, quoted a Golden Rule of official conduct, "Never retract; never explain; get it done; let them howl." And a secular paper remarks, "This is precisely what Becker did; he got it done and let them howl. Dr. Abbott's code of ethics may be all right for the Outlook, but we hope he never becomes a chaplain of the police department."