Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-03-24
GOLDsBORO. n. G. THURSDAY MARCH "a 1898.
A SATURDAY SERMON.
Published For Sunday Perusa1 and Every
Day Guidance.

Published For Sunday Perusa1 and Every
Day Guidance.
For he that will love life and see
good days, let him refrain his tongue
from evil.-Scripture.
Evidently in these words the
Apostle is speaking CT the pres
ent life, and one thing he makes
clear ia that a happy life here,
one that is lovable aud filled with
good days and worth the living,
is no bar to happiness in the
next life. AS a rule, people i'm
agine that to be happy in the
next world means much suffering
aud gloom and unhappiness IN
this. Such indeed is not the
case. for experience teaches just
what the Apostle tells US.
The principal point, though, is
that the first thing laid down by
the Apostle as q condition is the
guarding of the tongue from evil.
1t is not the only thing, for he
goes on to mention others, but
he places that first. Not without
reason, indeed, for our expert
ence to-day agrees closely with
what he must have seen when he
wrote those words.
Do we ever stop to think OF
how much of the sin and misery
in the world is due to an evil
tongue? When we read Or hear
of great chimes, We say, as rule,
the cause is drink or Jealousy Or
greed. When we see great pow
erty and suffering We say again
the cause is drink. So it is, as a
rule. But back Of that, if we go
far enough, we can place the be-
ginning in an evil tongue. 1t
was only the beginning, but the
rest followed easily. Many lost
one. could he but speak, would
tell US plainly that he owes his
or her suffering and loss to an
evil tongue.
To come closer home. does not
i. our own experience teach US
clearly that much OF our unhap
} piness, yes, much Of our sins
, comes from an evil tongue? No
: to speak of unclear, double
) meaning words, Or Of cursing
, for these are surely the devils
great b elps for evil, how mucl
unhappiness and sin is caused b.
the harsh and mean and bite
: little words that might just a.
q we'll not have been spoken? On
}. little word in the morning often
: times embitters the whole da.
and makes everything go wrong
. How easy it would have been no
: to speak it, and how different tn
J day would have BEEN and hoy
very much happier the day woui
have been had the word bee
h kind and good, instead of harsh
% That is what the Apostle mean
y we should do. We can't be cumt
70 We must speak, and the lips ths
N speak not evil must speak kin
and good words. A ki2d wore
# Have you never felt it's powe
"a when you we're unhappy or
sorrow or trouble? Words 81
cheap, people are apt to say. Bl
"a u meyer mind, if you have suffere
Of and have had a friend to speak
as as kind wor1; an earnest word, yo
ed have felt it's worth. Differen
b indeed, would it be had the wol
been harsh or evil.
st So can it be always. Try
at for yourself, whea you are temp
IN ed again to speak evil word
H. and see how much good, ho
much happiness kind word W
TO- TO- bring. It is not so hard to do
ry- Did we but try half as much
ri speak good words as we do
speak evil ones, we would quic
~ 10 ly see the truth of the Apostle
words, that good days must col
,r to him who refrains his tong
- from evil.
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