The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1847-11-18

'PLL NOT BEAR THAT"

Slanderous words had hecn spoken con-
corning him, aud they were sparks To the
powder there was IN his heart. 80 he
blew up, as the language shows. And he
would how the slantlerer up. too, Al the
first opportunity. -. ~~..
You had better not do that. hroIher,"
tfor il was a disriplc who used the Ian
guage.l B." AMI will set hcfnre You dish
Of most sav0rv ilissuasives." " $50
!. lie viii blow himseIfup, If you win
let him alone, aud save you the trouble.
Is he real slandcrcr Docs he wag lis
tongue malieiously Hut a hackbilcr is
! one, who, among other things, bites back
upon himself, as some serpenls are said Ia
do, when they are wounded, and ,iie ny
their own poison. You had better lei
him alone. You have not venom 10 kill
him. Nobody can Kill him as quick and
as elleclually as he will kill himself. The
more you try 10 kill him, the more he will
live. The less you do about him, The
quicker he will die. -.-.
.. Besides, you will get blown up with
him, il you blow him up. lie has pow
der aboard, as YOU have already painfully
experienced. And you abound IN that ar
iicle. as your language shows, and IL YOU
both come into contact, there will he sparks,
who eau doubt; and in the cSnlnsiesn X :.
, a,iaubiu, mnaI VIII become OF you In
! the FASH, aud smoke, and noise, if YOU
are not blackened and wounded, it will be
a wonder.
( Your Christian profession II you a.
venge yomsclfon the slandcrer, your good
name will certainly he endangered. You
canmot injurc him. II heis really as base
as YOU regard him, he is too low in the
gulf Of shame and guilt for you 10 have
any thing Ia do with him.
3. And more. Your attempt tn give
as good as you have received. will bring
your feet upon sharp thorns. Ono of them
is of this kind: ali thine enemy hum
ger, feed him." And another d" Pray for
them that despilclully use you and perse-
cute YOU" And there are many more
such all along the path you will travel, II
YOU mean to be avenged on the slanderer
They will make YOU abundance Of Trouble,
You had better keep out Of that path, and
20 where it is better walking.
4. You will lose the company Of good
men who have gone before you, il you dc
not forbear.
. There was One Of old, of whom il wa:
written, that he was holy, harmless, un
, ,leiied, and separate from Sinners" Ant
, vet was he the victim of the bascst Sian
,Iers human malice ever invented. Yet
when he was reviled, he revilcd not u
y gain"
And there rose up one after him, emf
g nen,ly bearing hislikeness, the salnted Paul
n who was second only 10 his Master nbe
a ing the object of scorn and contempt. Bu
n instead of busying himself in an onset up
r on the scoilers, he wrote as follows con
4 corning the matter: 4" Being revlled, W
bless being Detained, we entreat."
d Paul had set about looking up his rerilers
6 and putting things TO rights in regard +
g them. he would have had but little time 70
Il preaching the Gospel. Good men ran fin
!, better business. And YOU will travel dill
|, ferent path from theirs towards heaven,
e you seek TO give retribuion to scoIncrs.
Il But will not have my good nam
If cast out as evil. owe it to my ow
e honor, and the safety of others from dt
!. famers, to give bitter cup TO false accu:
s ers." But has the glory of Christ suiie
r. ed an eclipse because he took precisel
l. the opposite course from yours And j
Paul less brilliant luminary in Zion, b.
cause he let the tongue Of malice wag will
h, out any reply
n. II is easier, wiser, safer, and more no,
r. orahIc, to love and pray for the insultin
" and the injurious, than it is to brlsllc N
and raise voice or hand against them.