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Way to Avoid Calumny

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 14, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 3.

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Way to Avoid Calumny

WAY TO AVOID CALUMNY.—"If any one speaks ill of thee," said Epictetus, "consider whether he has truth ou his side; and if so, reform thyself, that his ceusure may uot affect thee." When Auaximauder was told that the very hoys laughed at his singing—"Ay," says he, "theu I must learn to sing better." Plato being told that he had many enemies who spoke ill of him—"It is uo matter," said he: "I will live so that uone shall believe them.">—Hearing, at another time that an intimate friend of his had spokeu detractingly of him—"I am sure he would not do it," said he, "if he had not some reason for it." This is the surest as well as the uoblest way of drawing the sting out of a reproach, and the true method of preparing a mau for that great and ouly relief against the pains of calumny—a good conscience.