Keep Your Mouth Shut

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 31, 1882

Keep Your Mouth Shut.

BLESSED is the man who knows enough to keep his mouth shut. Some people live sixty years without learning the art. Indeed, the older they grow the wider their mouths open. A man or a woman who is a gabbler at forty-five is a dreadful affliction to a house, or church, or community. There are two things this age needs to learn: when to say nothing, and when to say it well. "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue that man's religion is vain."—Golden Rule.