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your sakes bore all reproach and unkindness, the bitterest suffering and sorrow, without a murmur, saying when in agony, not my will but thine be done.

In a word, never cease to labour and to pray that you may be enabled to give to patience her perfect work. Persevere through 'childhood, through manhood, through old age, live and die in the virtue and blessedness of patience. Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Impatience is thought by some to be no great sin. Many a child indulges it day after day, and year after year, without remorse or sorrow. But examine yourself, impatient, peevish child, and see how it spoils your character: can you love or obey your parents, can you be kind, can you love, obey, or praise God, while you feel impatient; does not impatience so distract and disorder the soul as to unfit you for the cheerful performance of any duty? Nay, have you not found your soul disordered and distracted by even one feeling of impatience? And have not days and weeks of disobedience and folly been the

consequence of once allowing yourself to be impatient? Yes, impatience turns away the soul from God and from all goodness; and unless it be taken from the soul the end will be disorder, distraction, and ruin for ever.

But in proportion as you give, and even in proportion as you prayerfully attempt to give patience her perfect work, you will find that patience, lovely grace, will spread serenity, peace, and love, through your whole soul. As impatience cannot possess the soul alone without the companionship of other evil passions; so when Patience takes her seat, she sits attended by all other graces as her sisters and companions. If she be forced from her place, they go with her in her exile; and when she is invited to resume her seat, they come again joyful in her train. She never takes her seat, though it might seem but for the moment of suffering and trial, but she settles all disorders, composes all distractions, and brings the whole character under the influence of piety. And as long as she stays, the heart where Patience maintains her perfect work will be filled with the peace of God which passeth all understanding.

Beloved children, let patience have her perfect work. Let Jesus, Redeemer of your soul, who bore all sufferings with patience, be your example. Let the Holy Spirit descend into your bosom like a dove.

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Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepetħ his soul from troubles.

I WILL tell you some of the movements of a sinful tongue.

It may be an idle, gossiping tongue; ever busy, yet saying nothing good or useful; a tongue which trifles away hour after hour in idle words, for every one of which an account must be given at the day of judgement.

A sinful tongue may utter undutiful and rebellious speeches. It may undutifully refuse obedience to a parent, or complain angrily when obedience is required. It may habitually, daily, hourly, be saucy, impudent,

or burn with anger and ill-will, and deserve the name of a fiery tongue.

A sinful tongue may debase and defile itself with vulgar, filthy and profane talk, disregarding all that is decent among men, and all that is pious towards God-a tongue unfit for talk with men, or prayer to God—a tongue which derides God's law, takes His name in vain, and uses it and the devil's both alike, and damns without mercy the "soul to hell!"

A sinful tongue may be a lying, deceitful tongue-A tongue which asserts what is not, and denies what is. A tongue, which to get some momentary good-to avoid some momentary evil, will be moved by a LIAR, who deserves a place in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.

But we will not try to tell all the movements of a sinful tongue. In one word, a sinful tongue utters words which God forbids.

If you use your tongues as we have described, if you utter words which God forbids, you have a sinful tongue-and if your daily practice is to use them so, then surely your tongue is a sinful, a very sinful tongue.

But why should any one have a sinful tongue?

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