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OUR manner of talking is so important a matter, not merely for getting along in this life but also for reaching the next, that the most flaming of the Apostles, St. Paul, fiery trail blazer to salvation, declared, "Your manner of speaking must always be gracious, with an edge of liveliness, ready to give each questioner the right answer."1 I should like especially to call attention to his requiring "an edge of liveliness" in a good Christian's conversation! It pleases me to interpret this to mean that a fellow who never lifts a coin from his mother's purse, but who uses up fifteen and then-s to tell how he talked the "cop" out of a traffic ticket, has a mighty slim chance of wriggling through that biblical "eye of a needle" that is the gate of heaven! |
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