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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 28, 1882

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 59, No. 13.

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Think of Something to Say

—Some one writes to a paper, excusing his silence in the conference meeting by saying: “I have always had a prejudice in favor of waiting until I had something to say, and thought I knew what I was going to talk about.” This habit may induce what Sydney Smith calls “brilliant flashes of silence;” but instead of a habit of waiting, is not the habit of thinking of something to say better?