Extract From the Life of the Late General Burn.

AFTER detailing several answers to his prayers which he at various times received, the General says, “At another time I prevailed upon one of my brother officers, a most notorious swearer, to go to hear a preacher with me, and when we had just sat down, I put up a mental prayer, that he might be led to say something against swearing, that might be useful to my companion; and while I endeavored to recollect some texts of Scripture that was opposed to this vice, the third commandment presented itself with full force to my mind. I thought if this were pronounced with solemn energy and power, what good might it not do? Accordingly towards the close of the discourse, which by-the-bye, seemed quite foreign from that upon which we had been meditating, the preacher began to reprove the vice of swearing, and was a full quarter of an hour demonstrating with uncommon eloquence, and convincing arguments, its sinfulness, meanness, unprofitableness, and dangerous consequences, and at last concluded by repeating the third commandment with such solemnity, that it forced the whole audience into the most serious attention, while I rejoiced to think that the Lord had graciously condescended to answer my prayer in a manner admirably calculated to impress the conscience of this profane officer.” By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. Matthew 12:36, 3736But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. (Matthew 12:36‑37).
FALL to the work God sets thee about, and thou engagest His strength for thee.