Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-12-28

the very earliest period of susceptible
ity, of heart preparation for the life
that now is. and for that which is to
come.
2. You can no more keep back the
good or evil stream of influence frsGn
the heart than you can keep back the
waters of the mammoth spring. By
force OF gravity, and atmospheric pres
sure the fountain sends forth its waters
whose qualities are dependent upon
the minerals through which it perco-
ates.
5. The influence and power your
life eXerts upon the wGtld depends up
on the source from whence your words
and acts issue. If your heart has been
made pure by implicit trust in Jesus,
your life as a running stream will glad
den and cheer, and encourage, and
comfort and console, every thirsty
soul it touches. but if it is impure, It's
stream will blight, wither. discourage
and destroy the happiness of every
heart it touches. am inclined to
think that there are men and women
too who are spoken of by the world as
fair god people, and yet they will
wake up in hell or find that the most
poignant misery which shall possess
their blighted souls, will be caused by
scores of people who were brought
there through their words. The
thought is too horrible to- pursue!
II. The instrument of wcrds-the
tongue. 1t is therefore the most useful
or abuseful member of the human
body. It can be tree of life to the
weary, thirsty. hungry soul, or it can
break the spirit of the strongest man.
1t can tighten and lift the burden of
the wayfaring pilgrim, or it can crush
cut the life and break the heart of the
or cast down the strong. 1t can enrich
the life with heavenly treasure, or
strike the soul with eternal poverty 1t
can fill the heart with treasures of
truth, or it can steal the good name
which cannot be restored 1t can guide
soul to heaven; 1t can send it dawn
to hell. "a wholesome tongue is a tree
of life. But preverseness therein is
the breaking OF the spirit Don't for
get:
Little deeds of kindness,
Little words of love,
Make this earth an Eden
Like the heaven above"
III. Beauty of wcrds-"A word fit
ly spoken is like apples of gold in
baskets of silver This does not COM
prehend the beauty of words only, but
their value. intrinsic and extrlnsic.
1. A kind word is never lost. The
person to whom it is spoken may jeer
at you or treat you with stolid indiffer-
ence, but God who heard it will treas
ure it up as an "apple of gold in a
basket of silver and will place it IN
your mansion above as trophy Of
your kindness to one of his erring crea-
lures, to adorn your eternal habita-
ticn.
2. One word, spoken in love at the
proper time may save a soul from
death, it has saved hundreds and thou
sands.
"There are lonely hearts to cherish,
While the days are going by,
There are weary souls who perish
While the days are going by.
If smile we can renew.
AS our journey we pursue.
Oh, the good we all may do
While the days are going by.
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All the loving links that bind us,
While the days are going by,
One by one we leave behind us,
While the days are going by,
But the seeds of good we SOW,
Both in snaoe and shine will grow,
And will keep our hearts aglOW
While the days are going by
3. God has wisely chosen words
human words-as the vehicle of his
glorious revelation to man-as the cas-
I, ket of his precious gospel. His holy
book is written in human speech. Paul
| terms it the "sworyl of the spirit o,
I brother, sister. Gcd has placed that
i instrument of heavenly warfare against
! sin in your hands and mine. How sa-
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