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In His Steps

CHAPTER Seventeen
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THE next day she went down to the NEWS office to see Edward Norman and arrange the details of her part in the establishment of the paper on its new foundation.

Mr.Maxwell was present at this conference, and the three agreed that whatever Jesus would do in detail as editor of a daily paper, He would be guided by the same general principles that directed His conduct as the Saviour of the world.
"I have tried to put down here in concrete form some of the things that it has seemed to me Jesus would do," said Edward Norman.

He read from a paper lying on his desk, and Maxwell was reminded again of his own effort to put into written form his own conception of Jesus' probable action, and also of Milton Wright's same attempt in his business.
"I have headed this, 'What would Jesus do as Edward Norman, editor of a daily newspaper in Raymond ?' "1.

He would never allow a sentence or a picture in his paper that could be called bad or coarse or impure in any way.
"2.

He would probably conduct the political part of the paper from the standpoint of non-partisan patriotism, always looking upon all political questions in the light of their relation to the Kingdom of God, and advocating measures from the standpoint of their relation to the welfare of the people, always on the basis of 'What is right ?' never on the basis of 'What is for the best interests of this or that party ?' In other words, He would treat all political questions as he would treat every other subject, from the standpoint of the advancement of the Kingdom of God on earth." Edward Norman looked up from the reading a moment.


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