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A Golden Rule on Flattery and Defamation

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 6, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 19

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A Golden Rule on Flattery and Defamation

—“I resolve,” says Bishop Beveridge, “never to speak of a man’s virtues before his face, nor of his faults behind his back;” a golden rule! the observation of which would at one stroke banish flattery and defamation from the earth.—Bishop Horne.