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Every Uttered Word Lives Forever

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 1, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 11.

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Every Uttered Word Lives Forever

PHILOSOPHERS tell us that every uttered word produces a vibration in the atmosphere; an ingenious theory has therefore been broached that these vibrations never entirely cease? If this were true, we should still be moving among the inaudible words of our progenitors. This seems fanciful in natural philosophy; but there is a sense in which every uttered word lives forever. It lives in its influence on the speaker—in its influence on others. Paul's voice echoes still; millions of God's faithful messengers, being dead, yet speak!