A Pure Heart Makes Pure Speech by Dean Bradley

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 16, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 48.

A Pure Heart Makes Pure Speech.

By Dean Bradley

THE true way to make pure and wholesome our own share in the ceaseless tide of words, which is forever flowing around us, is to strive to make pure and wholesome the heart within. "Keep thy heart," says the wise man, "keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." If once our hearts have been trained to care very deeply for what is best and purest in life, for what is beautiful and true in thought, our heartiest mirth, our freest jest, our hasty words will not be those of men and women who are indifferent, who care nothing for noble living, nothing for high thinking, nothing for a Christian life, nothing for a Christian spirit.—Dean Bradley.