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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 11, No. 4.

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IDLE WORDS.

By George Washington Amadon

How full the world is of them! and how much the remnant indulge in this sinful habit. How often we hear brethren and sisters exclaim, "My stars!" "For pity's sake!" "Goodness!" "My soul!" etc., etc., little realizing that "for every idle (unmeaning) word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." And the judgment has already commenced at the house of God,
O let us each mind the words of our Saviour, to "let our yea be yea, and our nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than this cometh of evil." Do not the superadded expressions above, and a fearful list of worse extravagances in speech, come under this head? The son of thunder says, "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
G. W. A.