BETTER THAN TALKING.
The virtue of silence under trial is one of the rarest virtues and the most difficult to acquire ; therefore, it is most pleasing to God, and most conducive to the strength and beauty of Christian character. It is wisdom to say little concerning the injuries you have received. We are generally losers in the end if we stop to refute all the back-biting and gossiping we may hear by the way. They are annoying, it is true, but not dangerous, so long as we do not stop to expostulate and scold. It rs not hard to be good when you have love and sympathy and encouragement, but to be good when not one soul cares whether you live or die, when your kindest thoughts, your least selfish acts, your dearest sacrifices are treated alike with insult, cruelty and contempt, to be good then is the great accomplishment.
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New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1920, Page 45
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150BETTER THAN TALKING. New Zealand Tablet, 4 November 1920, Page 45
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