p. 13 | When Life Speaks

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 22, 1914

When Life Speaks

“It is an easy thing to let the lips talk. Words are cheap, and are often spoken without much consideration or forethought. But there is another way of talking—through the life. This is usually impressive. One whose life was clean and noble suddenly joined a company of friends. He never said a word of reproof or disapproval, but for some reason the questionable stories were dropped, and the none too kindly gossip just died out, and very soon everybody was thinking of nice things and saying them about the very ones they had been criticizing just before he came. What wrought this change? There was goodness in his life, and it spoke more loudly and forcibly to them than any mere words of reproof he might have uttered. Learn the lesson. Live a good life, and then it will speak a convincing and helpful message.”