DECLINE AN ARTICLE SENT US?
By Editor
Rejected Articles.—The following remarks from the Golden Rule so well express our mind concerning articles which we do not feel free to publish that we can do no better than adopt them. It says: DECLINE AN ARTICLE SENT US?
Refuse its insertion? Never, unless compelled from love and mercy. Whenever we receive a communication for the Rule, we turn it over and over, view it on every side carefully, and if the barest possibility of acceptance offers, we say amen, give it a choice place. It is a pleasure—a very great pleasure to please. We should like to please everybody if we could, and please ourself and our heavenly Father. Our first aim is to please God, then if anybody is pleased besides, all right. Therefore, friends, whenever your communications do not appear, rest assured it is not out of disrespect to the contributors, but solely from a sense of duty we owe to God, ourself and our readers generally. We aim to fill our little sheet to the best of our judgment, and whenever we mistake, the mistake is one of the intellect and not of the heart.