p. 11 | A PENNYROYAL TONGUE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 26, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 13.

A PENNYROYAL TONGUE.

As we jogged along on a journey, we came to a little slab meeting-house, just built, at considerable self-denial and persistent begging on the part of a few colored Christians. An old brother was called upon to pray at the opening of the service. This was one sentence in his quaint prayer: “O Lord, bless our brother, and give him a pennyroyal tongue.”

But this was not so foolish a petition, after all.

Pennyroyal is an herb, and grows abundantly in some regions, and is used for ointment and salves; it is healing, it soothes irritations, heals old hurts, reduces inflammation. This is the sort of tongue a missionary superintendent needs. I fancy, also, that many pastors would sometimes rejoice in the possession of such a tongue. I doubt if our colored brother could read, but he had in some way learned Solomon’s secret, “The tongue of the wise is health.”—Selected.