THE DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY MESSAGE

GUARD YOUR WORDS ! How earless we are with our words! How careful we should he if we knew that every word we utter is a living force which never ceases, nor can cease from exercising its power. We may speak hut a word or two, hut the force we have liberated- goes on for ever, expressing itself in the universal energy: “So shall my word he that goeth Iforth out of my mouth: it shall nonreturn unto me void, but ii .shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I send it.”

How many of us grasp the insignificance of this truth? And yet our words do literally and actually aecompi.sli 'that whereto they are sent. Charge your words with hate, and they gather hate as they speed onward, and thus strengthen, they return like a poisoned javelin to rankle in the heart of the sender.

How many of ns grasp the insignificance of the Biblical words:, “And the word was made flesh amongst u.s” ? How few of us ever think that our wards—our spoken thoughts—are made flesh and continue to dwell with us long after they are uttered—long after they are forgotten—and yet it is just so, for the force of the word is indestructible.

i lie word is powerful only because it affirms the thought, and thought is Lue power which shapes our lives—character, fortunes, health, happiness —for we are what we think.

There is a mighty power in the spoken word, mightier than in the unspoken, for the spoken word registers a profound impression on the unconscious mind, and the silent intelligent forces within us proceed to make the word “flesh,” to give it form, to give it power—power to make the things we affirm, a reality. You can choose what shall lie registered in your unconscious mind ; but once you have allowed ugly, destructive, I evil, thoughts to pass the bar ol your scrutiny, the wonderful, mysterious, unceasing forces within you proceed to make your word “flesh,” and build in you, and around you, the things which your bespoken word has built up in reality. Every word you speak is mighty in its consequences. You can be a destructive force to all around you; but, most of all, can you destroy yourself. Guard your thoughts, for they will accomplish that whereto they are sent. M. PRESTON STANLEY.