Think before you speak what you shall speak, why yon should speak,, to whom you shoulUl apeak, about whom you are to speak, what will come from what you may speak, what may be the benefit from v."bat you may speak, andlastly, who may be listening to what you may speak. Turn your speech seven ways, and there will never come any harm from what you have spoken. An aged Highland divine having occasionally to avail himself of the assistance of probationers, a young man, very vain of his accomplishments as a preacher, officiated, | and on descending from the pulpit, was met by the old gentleman with extended hands. Expecting high praise, he said, "No compli ments, 'I pray." "Na, na, na, my younj friend," said the minister ; "nowaday* in I glad o' ony body J"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 4021, 1 October 1874, Page 3
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136Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 4021, 1 October 1874, Page 3
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