way for this time; when I have a convenient season I will call for thee."[1]
The Holy Spirit is grieved,
2. By unholy conversation. The character of our minds give in general a direction to the train of our conversation. Hence we may form a very good judgment of the cast of our mind if we strictly observe the character of the conversation in which we take the greatest delight. "Out of the abundance of the heart" says our Lord, "the mouth speaketh."[2] Of the wicked it is said that, "God is not in all his thoughts."[3] Now so long as the inconsiderate man continues so, and will not with divine assistance use the power that he has to bring his mind back from its wanderings and lead it in the path of serious, sober thinking, we cannot expect him to delisht in such a conversation of which the Holy Spirit would approve. His thoughts run in a channel, that is
