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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 48.

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For the Master’s Use

By Frances Ridley Havergal

“KEEP my lips that they may be Filled with messages from thee.”
The days are past forever when we said, “Our lips are our own.” Now we know that they are not our own. And yet how many of my readers often have the miserable consciousness that they have spoken unadvisedly with their lips! How many pray, “Keep the door of my lips,” when the very last thing they think of expecting is that they will be kept! They deliberately make up their minds that hasty words, or foolish words, or exaggerated words, according to their respective temptations, must and will slip out of that door, and that it cannot be helped. The extent of the real meaning of their prayer was merely that not quite so many might slip out. As their faith went no further, the answer went no further, and so the door was not kept. Do let us look the matter straight in the face. Either we have committed our lips to our Lord, or we have not. This question must be settled first. If not, O, do not let another hour pass! Take them to Jesus, and ask him to take them.— Frances Ridley Havergal.