A sensible father who finds his boy reading a book of dangerous
tendency, will kindly point out its character and substitute a
better book that is equally interesting.
When children want to spend their evenings on the street,
thoughtful and intelligent parents will seek to make their
evenings at home more healthfully attractive.
When a man seeks to rid his mind of evil and hurtful thoughts, he
will find it wise to follow Paul's exhortation to the Philippians:
"Brethren, whatsoever things are true,... honest,... just,...
pure,... lovely,... of good report;... if there be any praise,
think on these things" (Phil. iv. 8).
Any man who faithfully, patiently, and persistently accepts this
programme of Paul's will find his evil thoughts vanishing away.
And this is the Holy Spirit's method: He has a pleasant and safe
substitute for gossip and fault-finding and slander.
Here it is: "Be filled with the Spirit: speaking to yourselves in
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things
unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ"
(Eph. v. 18-20). This is certainly a fruit of being filled with
the Spirit.
Many years ago the Lord gave me a blessed revival in a little
village in which nearly every soul in the place, as well as
farmers from the surrounding country, were converted.
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