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A Mirror of the Soul

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 8, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 49.

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A Mirror of the Soul

The voice is a mirror of the soul. The gruff voice bespeaks a crabbed heart; the shrill voice a frivolous or passionate mind; the gentle, well-controlled voice a perfect soul. It is the voice, more than anything else, that gains or loses favors which its owner covets; it is the voice that wins or rebuffs souls to whom we seek to give the truth. We are measured and judged as rightly by our voices as by our faces or our deeds. And the forming of the voice is under the control of the father and mother. It is the earliest work in language teaching which the parent can do.
The voice is formed upon the model furnished in the home. The babe hears the soft crooning of his mother’s lullaby, he hears the happy laughter of his older brothers and sisters, he hears the pleasant conversation of all the family. Does he hear, also, sharp tones of command, gruff words of discontent and recrimination.