GUARDING THE TONGUE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 12, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 37.

GUARDING THE TONGUE.

If each of us, as we pass through life, Would bridle and curb the tongue, And speak of only the pleasant things To be said of every one, What a wonderful difference there would be Between this world of ours And the paradise it might become With all pathways strewn with flowers?

Now surely a little reflection Will show us, as plain as the day, The mistakes we made when we hastily Allowed our tongue full sway.

When the day is done and we think it o'er, Ah, me, that it should be true! There are few of us who can honestly say There is nothing we would undo.

Too often the faults we clearly see In others are faults of our own,— And those who dwell in houses of glass Should be wary in casting a stone. So have charity, much charity, The loveliest virtue of all, And look well to the member unruly, For it's prone to slip and fall.

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