Excerpt from The Idle Word: Short Religious Essays Upon the Gift of Speech, and Its Employment in Conversation I may have erred doubtless in some of my appli cations of it to practice, - but I cannot see my way to evade the general principle, that words, to redeem themselves from the charge of being idle, must fulfil some one of the ends which words were designed to fulfil. These ends are indicated at length in the body of the Work, arid it only remains for me to say, that a wider s00pe should possibly begiven to the term, ...
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Excerpt from The Idle Word: Short Religious Essays Upon the Gift of Speech, and Its Employment in Conversation I may have erred doubtless in some of my appli cations of it to practice, - but I cannot see my way to evade the general principle, that words, to redeem themselves from the charge of being idle, must fulfil some one of the ends which words were designed to fulfil. These ends are indicated at length in the body of the Work, arid it only remains for me to say, that a wider s00pe should possibly begiven to the term, innocent reere an it was consistent with the nature of a religious essay to set forth. A great many words which can not be justly called witty, or humorous, yet tend to relieve the burdens of life, and to lighten the heart with a gleam of merriment; nor would it be possible to enter into any useful conversation with out passing through the preliminary porch of lighter remarks, and repartees upon ordinary topics. If such things were precluded, conversation would lose its ease and gaiety, and with these its power of refreshing the mind. To preserve this power (which ought always to attach to it), while at the same time guarding against empty words, and the en croachment of 3. Spirit of unwatchfulness, is doubt less an arduous task, -one of the most arduous perhaps which the Christian has to achieve; but it is our encouragement and consolation to know that our Merciful Lord never commands impossibilities, and ofi'ers na not only the guidance of general prin ciples in His Word, but also Grace and Light to direct the individual conscience, in its attempts to apply those principles to the conduct of daily life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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