The Christian Express
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1880
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University of Fort Hare
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No one who cares for peace and quietness will readily enter into a controversy on a fiercely debated public question. And yet it is out of the undesirable din and turmoil of such debate, that every advance in the history of freedom, whether of thought or religion has always emerged. But there are times when peace and quiet however desirable are not attainable; and when in comparison with speech, silence merits anything but the praise bestowed upon it by a celebrated philosopher still living. It is not always 'golden', for a wiser than Carlyle has said, there is a time to speak, as well as a time to keep silence. There is also a time, we may remind some of our contemporaries, to keep old opinions, and a time to cast them away.