Practical Conversations With Our Young People: Keeping Our Mouths

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PSA 39:11<<To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.>> I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. (Psalm 39:1)A number of intimate friends being at dinner together on the Lord's Day, one of the company, knowing that some at the table knew not the Lord, in order to redeem the time, said, "It is a question whether we shall all go to heaven or not." This plain hint occasioned a general seriousness, and self-examination. One thought, "If any of this company go to hell, it must be myself;" and so thought another, and another; even the servants, who waited at table, were affected in the same manner. In short, it was afterward found that this one sentence proved by the special blessing of God upon it instrumental to their conversion. What an encouragement to Christians, to give a serious turn to conversation, and not to waste their time in needless remarks on persons and passing events. They should ever remember that to occupy the time with that which is uninteresting and unprofitable, is not only injurious, but an insult to the company they are in.