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We Learn to Speak the Language of Canaan, March 6
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew,
as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the
grass.
Deuteronomy 32:2
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We are to be witnesses for Christ; and this we shall be when we
grow up daily into the full stature of men and women in Christ. It is
our privilege to grow more and more like Him every day. Then we shall
acquire the power to express our love for Him in higher, purer speech,
and our ideas will enlarge and deepen, and our judgment become more
sound and trustworthy, while our testimony will have more of life and
assurance. We are not to cultivate the language of the earthy, and be so
familiar with the conversation of men, that the language of Canaan will
be new and unfamiliar to us. We are to learn in the school of Christ;
yet it is manifest that many are satisfied with very limited experience in
spiritual things, for they reveal but little knowledge of spiritual things in
their prayers and testimonies. There is less good judgment manifested in
matters concerning our eternal interests, than in matters concerning our
earthly, temporal affairs.
Christians are to be faithful students in the school of Christ, ever
learning more of heaven, more of the words and will of God; more of the
truth and how to use faithfully the knowledge that they have gained
The chief requisite of language is that it be pure and kind and true—
“the outward expression of an inward grace.” ... The best school for this
language study is the home.
Kind words are as dew and gentle showers to the soul. The Scripture
says of Christ that grace was poured into His lips, that He might “know
how to speak a word in season to him that is weary.” And the Lord bids us,
“Let your speech be alway with grace,” “that it may minister grace unto
the hearers.
When the heart is pure, rich treasure of wisdom will flow
forth
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15
The Youth’s Instructor, June 28, 1894
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16
The Adventist Home, 435
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17
The Adventist Home, 438
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