Article October 9, 1909 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Lyman Abbott, Frederick A. Bisbee, Franklin Hamilton

[Lyman Abbott in Outlook.]

The apostle John has given us the lofty, the noble, the divine meaning of words: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." God was always a speaking God, through the mountain and the flower that bloomed upon its sides and the bird that sang above it; speaking in the words of the poet, the achievement of the statesman, the authority of the father, the comforting love of the mother. The picture is the word of the artist ; the bridge is the word of the home is the word of the mother. Words are the expressions of the hidden life of the soul. It may be the life of emotion or the life of intellect: the life of instruction or the life of mere fellow feeling; the life of serious thought or the life of sparkling wit or of mere good humor. But if it expresses no life, it is an idle word, and "every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment."

[British Congregationalist.]

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