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throughout this country. A volume of eulogies of his work and his carrer was afterwards published, but the most forceful and effective thing uttered about him was said by a working man who had been associated with him for many years.

"I have known this man for forty years," he said, "and during this time he has never to my knowledge spoken an unclean word or made an impure suggestion."

"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," the apostle said, and so a clean tongue means clean thoughts, a clean life, high ideals, high purposes, and these things together spell an immeasurable influence for good.

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