POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD.
God’s ministers and teachers must never despair of the influence of their words. Let them remember that the word which George Herbert spoke to those who went to sacred places to worship is just as true for those who go to such places to witness: “God is more there than thou.” The nourishing grass of human wisdom may wither, the beautiful flowers of human culture may fade, but “the word of our God shall stand forever.” We know how a catching harmony lingers in our ears; we can not get it out; it keeps ringing there; that is the way we are made. And there is no march, or dirge, or choral of them all, that so lingers with men as do the deep-sounding, eternal notes of the Word of God. Nothing can silence them—that, too, is the way we are made. All lips or lives which repeat a true word of God will be heard. They can not be stilled. The whole high heaven is their sounding-board enforcing them; the whole wide world is their whispering gallery, through which their faintest tone echoes and re-echoes, and will not be lost. When such come unto men or unto children, there is a voice that comes with them as unto the seer long ago, saying, “These are true words of God.”—Sunday School Times.