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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 21, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 16.

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Idle Words

WORDS are things of little cost, Quickly spoken, quickly lost; We forget them, but they stand Witnesses at God's right hand, And their testimony bear For us, or against us, there.
O, how often ours have been Idle words, and words of sin; Words of anger, scorn, or pride, Or deceit, our faults to hide; Envious tales, or strife unkind, Leaving bitter thoughts behind!
Grant us, Lord, from day to day, Strength to watch, and grace to pray; May our lips, from sin kept free, Love to speak and sing of thee; Till in heaven we learn to raise Hymns of everlasting praise.
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