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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 18, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 3.

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MY GLORY.

By R.

“O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.” Ps. 108: 1. What is here meant by my glory? Let us try Father Miller’s plan, and by the aid of a concordance examine similar texts and see if we can find what is the glory of man, by which he is raised above the beast.
Ps. 30: 12: “To the end that my glory [margin, my tongue] may sing praise to thee, and not be silent.” Ps. 16: 9: “Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth.” Job says of the days of his prosperity, when God preserved him, “My glory was fresh in me.”
From these we find that it is the glory of man to be able to communicate ideas by words spoken.
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” Prov. 25: 11. But for the opposite see Prov. 25: 24: “It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.” “If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able to bridle the whole body.” James 3: 2. “If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.” James 1: 26.
Consider the words of Jesus. Matt. 12: 36, 37: “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of Judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” R.