A
footnote to my last blog –
Just
came to this in Mrs. Eddy’s Miscellany: "I admonish Christian
Scientists either to speak charitably of all mankind or to keep silent,
for love fulfils divine law and without this proof of love mental practice were
profitless" (page 106, line 2).
Ah!
Keeping silent! I
recall that the book of Proverbs has quite a lot to say on this topic of
controlling the tongue. For instance, Prov. 12:18, 19 has: "There is that
speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is
health. The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying
tongue is but for a moment."
And,
"A wholesome tongue, is a tree of life" (Prov. 15:4). My
Bible dictionary points to Job, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and James also taking
on the subject. I
like this one from James: "If any man among you seem to be religious, and
bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is
vain" (James 1:26).
Joyce Voysey
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