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Avoiding Evil Conversation

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 20, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 12, No. 1.

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Avoiding Evil Conversation

If you do not wish to speak ill of any, do not delight to hear ill of them. Give no countenance to busy-bodies, and those that love to talk of other men's faults; or if you cannot decently reprove them on account of their quality, then direct the discourse some other way; or if you cannot do that, by seeming not to mind it, you may sufficiently signify that you do not like it.—Sel.