Speech and Silence by Richter

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 27, 1882

Speech and Silence

By Richter

Speech and Silence.—Never tell a child under six years old to conceal anything, even though it were a pleasure you were planning for some one you love. The clear sky of child-like open-heartedness must not be covered even by the morning glow of shame; and your instructions will soon teach him to add secrets of his own to yours. The heroic virtue of silence requires for its practice the powers of ripening reasoning. Reason teaches us to be silent, the heart teaches us to speak.—Richter.