THE SPEECH OF PIETY.
One of the greatest problems of the religious life is the problem how to preserve naturalness and piety. We are in danger either of being unnaturally eloquent or unduly reticent of our religious feelings. If we give utterance to them, the habit is apt to end in mere talkativeness. If, from a desiro to be scrupulously honest with ourselves, we check our speech, we may lose the opportunity of the influence which speech bestows. We may blunt our spiritual perceptions, and render ourselves incapable of those very emotions to which we have refused to give utterance. The happy art of preserving the mean between over-much talking and an unfruitful silence is hard to win. The aim of all should be that their religion should be so really their own that their utterances onreligioussubjectsshould be neither forced nor fluent, but just simply natural. The speech of piety should be like the voice of Bong, sweet because irresistible, and irresistible because real.— The Bishop of Eipon, in The Quiver.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)
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171THE SPEECH OF PIETY. Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)
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