The Heart a Reservoir

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Matthew 12:34-35

O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.…

You have seen the great reservoirs provided by our water companies, in which the water that is to supply hundreds of streets and thousands of houses is kept. Now, the heart is just the reservoir of man; and our life is allowed to flow in its proper season. That life may flow through different pipes — the mouth, the hand, the eye; but still all the issues of hand, of eye, of lip, derive their source from the great fountain and central reservoir, the heart; and hence there is no difficulty in showing the great necessity that exists for keeping this reservoir — the heart — in a proper state and condition; since otherwise that which flows through the pipes must be tainted and corrupt.

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