| Show THE tongue let ug us often deny the tongue no man speaks safely sya a areat ant saint 1 but be he who is silent eilent wilif willingly 11 bigly 22 it is impossible for tor persons to talk as fast and as much as they do without folly and alid sin we talk too much if we doubt this let ua us think for a moment how little we say which is worth saying how much that does harm to others or ourselves and then we e cannot doubt it again we talk too much when then we are incited to talk rapidly let us check ourselves partly to prevent our saying what we should afterwards repent of and partly to give ourselves perfect command over any motion unless we can bid it stop aa as well weli v ell eli as go on it is quite as needful in taming a horse to teach him to pause at our bidding aa as to move on let ua us artuse learn earn then to command our forgues by denying them akem by not speaking at times timea when we w are tempted to do BO so and thus obtaining a victory and power over thib thia 1 unruly member me |
