Reverent Circumspection (Prayer-Day Meditation)

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. Eccl. 5:2 When thou enterest the house of God! . . . . For that occasion, the Word of God in this connection sounds a threefold warning. The house of God, to which the text refers, was, of course, in the first place, the old dispensational temple, the sanctuary of Israel, where the people of God were wont to worship, to offer...