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There is no difference in quality be tween sins of omission and sins of com mission; either is fatal. The prayer closets of God’s people are where the roots of the church grow. The silence of the tongue is often times the eloquence of the heart. Knock down a hypocrite in the church and you’ll upset a dozen outsid ers who are leaning against him. Few people have a lower opinion of themselves than they deserve. The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. God’s sword has been sharpening upon the revolving stone of our daily wickedness, and if we will not repent, it will speedily cut us in pieces. Lies are the covert of the coward and weakling. To have suffered much is like know ing many languages—-it gives the suf ferer access to so many more people. A perverse tongue is never allied with a sanctified heart. Live the life instead of merely talking the talk. He who learns from God and so gets the seed, will soon find wisdom within himself, growing in the garden of his soul. A week filled up with selfishness, and a Sabbath full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. The boundaries of life are not the cradle and the grave. Purposes that take into consideration only that brief span are never worth while. \ Don’t offer people sentimental con fections or intellectual shavings. Some men are only brothers-in-law to the church.
The great benefactors are the great lovers and their coin is not that of material money hut the wealth of the heart. Only the lips that have been purified with the flame from the holy altar of God can offer words that are pleasing unto Him. There is one way of keeping heresy out; that is by being filled with the Holy Ghost. Jesus came into the world through a barn door and went out on a rugged cross for YOU.. The wise physician always looks at his patient’s tongue. The great Search er of hearts has told us that by our words we shall be justified or con demned. Many crowd to get into the church, but make no room for the sermon to get into them.' Some people can talk Christianity by the yard, hut they cannot walk it by the inch. Refuse the burden and thou declin-
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