difference in things. Words are very awful and wonderful things,
for they come from the most awful and wonderful of all beings, Jesus
Christ, the Word. He puts words into men's minds--He made all
things, and He makes all words to express those things with. And
woe to those who use the wrong words about things!--For if a man
calls any thing by its wrong name, it is a sure sign that he
understands that thing wrongly, or feels about it wrongly; and
therefore a man's words are oftener honester than he thinks; for as
a man's words are, so is a man's heart; out of the abundance of our
hearts our mouths speak; and, therefore, by right words, by the
right names which we call things, we shall be justified, and by our
words, by the wrong names we call things, we shall be condemned.

Therefore a difference in words is a difference in the things which
those words mean, and there is a difference between religion and
godliness; and we shew it by our words. Now these are religious
times, but they are very ungodly times; and we shew that also by our
words. Because we think that people ought to be religious, we talk
a great deal about religion; because we hardly think at all that a
man ought to be godly, we talk very little about God, and that good
old Bible word "godliness" does not pass our lips once a-month. For
a man may be very religious, my friends, and yet very ungodly. The
heathens were very religious at the very time that, as St. Paul
tells us, they would not keep God in their knowledge. The Jews were
the most religious people on the earth, they hardly talked or
thought about anything but religion, at the very time that they knew
so little of God that they crucified Him when He came down among
them. St. Paul says that he was living after the strictest sect of
the Jews' religion, at the very time that he was fighting against
God, persecuting God's people and God's Son, and dead in trespasses