Seven Rules for Speaking

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 26, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 55.

Seven Rules for Speaking

SEVEN is the perfect number, and if the following seven rules were faithfully observed, they would do something toward making a perfect man.

Before thou openest thy mouth think:—

1. What thou shalt speak. 2. Why thou shouldst speak it. 3. To whom thou art to speak. 4. Concerning whom or what thou art about to speak. 5. What will result therefrom. 6. What benefit it can produce. 7. Who may be listening.—Boston Gazette.