Saying and Doing

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 3, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 5.

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Saying and Doing.

These expressions have been often compared. We know the relative value of saying and doing. Every one considers of little worth the man who is ready with words, but fails to back up those words with worthy deeds. And we consider of less worth the man whose words imply a character which his deeds utterly deny. He claims a largecapital, but can pay but little. He claims righteousness, but his life is filled with mean dealings. To such as this some one has said, "How can I listen to what you are saying, when what you are keeps thundering in my ears?" Happy is the one whose deeds come up to the standard his words imply. H.