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Lived It Down

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 1, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 6.

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Lived It Down.

An honest blacksmith was once grossly insulted and his character infamously defamed. Friends advised him to seek redress by means of law, but to one and all he replied, “No; I will go to my forge, and there in six months I will have worked out such a character, and earned such a name as all the judges, law courts, and lawyers in the world could not give me.” He was right. It is by honest labor, manly courage, and a conscience void of offense, that we assert our true dignity and prove our honesty and respectability.