...to all, who make profession of the Gospel, a searching criterion of their sincerity, when he says, " If any " man among you, seem to be religious, and...bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own " heart, this roan's religion is vain." This passage should not be thought a hard saying, for it stands in the...

...laid the greatest stress, as necessary to salvation. But St James tells us, that " if any man among us seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,...deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain." And that pure religion, and undefiled before God the Father, is this : " To visit the far«^rless and...

...that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth." James i. 26, " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." Chap. iii. 14, 15, " If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,...

...decorous, even by the professors of religion. Now all this is not only wrong, but fatally wrong. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." " By thy words thou shalt be justified,...

...obsceneness, shocked with oaths, or overpowered with scandalous abuse. Well might the apostle write, If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain. If we consider these vices of the tongue in the order of their enormity,...

...when employed in the worship of God 1 11. Is the government of the tongue a test of our sincerity ? If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. (1 Jas. 26.) 12. Should we pray for God's assistance against the sins...

...its practical bearing ; and the latter furnishes a comprehensive and ever-seasonable prayer : — " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." (James i. 26.) " Let the words of my month, and the meditation of my...

...THE TONGUE. Q. 121. Is not that man's religion vain who does not bridle his tongue ? James, i. 26. A. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own neart, this man's religion is vain. . Q. 122. May we, talk foolishly and jest one with another? Ephesians,...

...are my disciples, if ye hate and revile one another.' " If any man among you," saith the aposijle, " seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,. ' '" '$ but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is '; • vain." (James i. 26.) Finally, the unfruitful professor has the form...

...atway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Jam. i. 26. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not hit tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Eccles. v. 2. 6. Be not rash...