Prof. J. A. Gilmer at the Y. M. O. A.
Sunday Large Attendance.
Prof. Gilmer's address at the Y. M.
C. A., was not only interesting but
timely. His subject was, "The tongue."
He read from James, 3rd chapter (The
tongue chapter), and took for the basis
of his talk the latter clause of Math.
12:37. " By thy words thou shalt be
condemned." "The gift of speech,"
said the Professor, "is from God, and
it is strange men will use that gift to
curse and abuse the God who gave it."
" The man who swears gains nothing,
but like a silly fish that bites at an
unbated hook and meets a wound and
death, so the swearer wounds himself,
looses his soul at last."
The Prof, then took up the sin of
obscenity. He endeavored to show
the vileness of this unchaste habit and
show it ruined body and mind, and
everybodj' it came in touch with.
" When the tongue is given to this im
pure habit," said the Professor, then
does it become indeed, " a fire among
our members, that defileth the whole
body and setteth on fire the whole
course of nature; and is set on fire of
hell. " Don't listen to a vile or un
clean joke." Run from it as you would
from a snake, or deadly loathsome dis
ease. " Would to God I might -get
rid of the memory of those I heard
when a boy" said he very earnestly.
Tattling was next taken up and
the siu of this habit clearly exposed.
