p. 10 | That Seasoning by T. E. Bowen

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 24, 1902

That Seasoning

By T. E. Bowen

T. E. BOWEN

Good cooks know just how to season their dishes to make them palatable. Usually they “season to suit the taste,” which is good, providing the taste is not perverted. God also directs his children to use seasoning. They are also to accommodate to some extent their seasoning to the taste of others. It is desirable to have the food palatable. It is possible to take good food, and cook it well, and yet so fail in the seasoning process that it will be eaten with disrelish, and thus fail in nourishing the body as it might otherwise have done.

“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” Graceful words always, well seasoned, certainly is an ideal attainment for the most progressive Christian. Salt saves. Therefore in every answer there should be some truth uttered, some graceful statement made, in which the hearer shall find words of life.

“This certainly rebukes repulsive speeches from the child of God. Graceful speeches,—how good they are! How refreshing! Shall we not study the seasoning art a little more carefully? It is possible that many more might be numbered with the “little flock” were this divine recipe followed better in our conversation with “them that are without.”