"Let us walk as the children of God in sobriety. 'But let us who are of the day be sober' (1 Thess. 5:8). God's children must not do as others. They must be sober.
"In their speeches; not rash, not unseemly. 'Let your speech be season-
ed with salt' (Col. 4:6). Grace must be the salt which seasons our words and makes them savoury. Our words must be solid and weighty, not feathery. God's children must speak the language of Canaan. Many pretend to be God's children, but their speech betrays them. Their lips do not drop as an honey-comb, but are like the sink, where all the filth of the house is carried out.
"The children of God must be sober in their opinions; hold nothing but what a sober man would hold. Error, as Saint Basil says, is a spiritual intoxication, a kind of frenzy. If Christ were upon the earth again, He might have patients enough. There are abundance of spiritual lunatics among us which need healing."
