“I don’t want to hear naughty words,” said a little boy.
“It’s no matter,” said another boy, “what Joe Smith says; it goes ill one ear and Gift the other.”
“No,” said the first boy, “the worst of it is, when naughty words get in, they stick. So I shall do my best to keep them out.”
It is much easier to keep naughty words out, before they get in, than it is to get them out, after they once are admitted into the mind. It is easier to soil a piece of paper, than it is to clean it, and the Scripture says, the man whom God aroves and blesses, is one who
“Stoppeth his ears from the hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil.” Isa. 31:15.
Evil outside is bad enough, but evil inside poisons the very fountain of life.
Ml 11/23/1941