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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 14, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 13.

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Words.

WORDS! What are they? Little things; and yet how much joy or sorrow may be wrought, even in the utterance of a few little words. Let us classify them. First, there are good words, which are made up of kind words, loving words, tender words, gentle words, endearing words, pleasant words, cheering words, hopeful words, encouraging words, words of sympathy, faithful words, prayerful words, trustful words, blessed words, cherishing words.
The second, we will denominate bad words, which consist in angry words, spiteful words, bitter words, words of hate, sorrowful words, mocking words, jeering words, vexing words, fault-finding words, murmuring words, fretful words, impatient words, complaining words, envious words, words of malice, jealous words, rankling words, vain words, idle words.
What a contrast, yet how few, comparatively, realize the influence exerted from the use of these two classes of words. The first ever bringing joy and gladness to the human heart; the second filling it with sadness and grief. Dear reader, are you ever indulging in those baneful words, which cloud even the moral atmosphere that surrounds you? If so, let me entreat you, indulge them no longer; but on the contrary, speak those kind, loving words, that will not only illuminate your own pathway with the sunshine of happiness, but will also shed a halo of peace and joy over all with whom you may associate. Jesus says, “By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” Hence the necessity of using those good words that shall finally result in our justification in that great reckoning day, which is soon to dawn upon a world prone to use bad words.—Advent Christian Times.