p. 374 | Graceful Speech

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1878

Graceful Speech.

WHILE nature does much, reading and writing do more in cultivating fluency and felicity of speech. Read the best English, and avoid the cheap and sensational literature of the day, avoid vulgarity and slang in conversation. Use the same care in purity of language while talking familiarly in private, that is taken in public speech. But the best training is heart training. Here as in oratory, it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaketh. If the law of kindness is within the heart, there will be “milk and honey on the tongue.”