Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1900 — Editor Sheldon Takes Charge, Today. [ARTICLE]

Editor Sheldon Takes Charge, Today.

Today, Bro. Sheldon takesc barge of the Topeka, Kans., Capital, to run it for a week, as “Jesus would do.” About the first order that he has given out is thatall patent medicine ads must b& cut out. He admits that som», patent medicines are good, and

could properly be advertised in a strictly Christian daily, but lots of : them are bad, and he hasn’t time to discriminate. So he cuts them all out aud so punishes the good' for the faults of the bad, Bat . surely Jesus would not have done . that. He would have known, which the good aud bad medicineswere and would have commended the good and condemned the back And this is only one of the many facts which will show that any one makes a great mistake when he claims to shape bis conduct as Jesus would do. Not “As Jesus would do” but “As Jesus would

expect us to try to do,” strikes ua as being the only true and practicable rule for Christian conduct.