Kansas weekly herald., 1855-02-02
We take the following from the Hagers-
town Maryland Torch Light.
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Attention is called to an extract of ser.
mon, delivered in this county MANY wears
ago by the Rev. LFANDER KsR, upon "the
mischief of malignant lying" Mr.. KEa
is now engaged in preaching the Gospel
to the soldiers at Fort Learenworth, but
was formerly citizen of Clearspring,
where he taught school. One of his pupils,
into whose mind he early instilled those
principles of sterling virtue which continue
to illumine the pathway of his maturer life,
preserved this sticking specimen of his
powers of denunciation, and few DAYS ago
handed ito us for republication, having
once before been in print, in the hope
that it might serve to check the growth of
great social evil:
THE MISCHIEF OF MALIGNANT LYING.
Extract from Sermon on the great moral pr:.,ei-
pie Of justice, by the Req. LEANDER KER.
"There is another species of injustice We
must notice, before closing this address,
and that is the injustice Of evil speaking, in
which the liar, the tattler, and the slande-
rer finds pleasure and enjoyment. Go a.
round all the walks Of vitiated society,"
go visit the haunts OF congregated sin-go
enter bandits abode, and accompany a
pirate crew In voyage of crime and Blood,
and after all, the malignant liar is a ba-
ser and blaclier wretch than the basest and
blackest of these. There may be, and of.
ten are, some noble traits of character
some undying remains of honor-some ex-
hibltions of chivalry-some enhancing ex-
amples fmagnanimity in every other fal-
len child of guilt and crime, that illume
and relieve the darkness and desolation of
the mortal waste; but with the malignant
liar, and heartless slanderer, there are,
there can be none, his soul knows nought
OF these, his is a most vulgar and vicious
taste; his IS the downward ambition, along
whose dark and crooked path stalk the
ghosts of murdered reputation whose wall
lugs are the only music for which his ear
is atuned. The venom of the toad, and
the poison Of the asp, are honey and nec-
tar compared to the virus of TIE slanderer's
tongue; and the pestilential exhalations
that arise from the dying vegetation Of the
world, are the spice fraught gales of Ara
b:a, in comparison of a liars blasting breath.
You may strip me Of my last penny, and
reduce me and mine to want; but by tho
blessing Of God upon my efforts, may ac-
quire as much again. You may wound
my body and lay me on the verge of the
grave-and from this too I may recover,
and prove blessing to society. But lob
me OF my character, and name, and YOU
sink me in poverty, from which no effort
can free rae, nor gold relieve You infict
a wound beyond, the power Of medicine to
heal, skill to remedy, or time to cure; you
render my life burden and blank, my
being 4 curse uncheered, unsolaced by the
thoughts of death and the grave; for the
dead are not safe from falsehood, ard the
sacred sanctuary of the grave, where the
prosecuted find refuge, the weary repose
and the homeless home, is polluted by the
breath of SANDER
The wickedness Of lying and slander is
only equalled by their folly. can readily
understand why the drunkard drinks, the
gambler gamhies, he robber robs, and the
pirate plumbers; but to rob me OF that which
IS more valuable to me than life, and which
makes you niether better nor richer-to
serve the devil without either honor, profit
or fame here, and to be identified with him
in destiny hereafter, is to be vile for the
sake of viIeness-is TO sell hearan for no.
thing, and purchase he'll for ats oacn sake.
This is the utmost limit Of folly and mad.
ness; this is dislnterested wickedness.
But of all liars and slandere1s, the reli.
gioas liar and slanderer Ga strange anoma--
ly) is the most abhorrent and the most per-
nicious: he who lies for the sake of God,
and the cause of truth: he whose sour, en-
vious, and malignant mind, masked by tfe-
affectation of fvillage piety, sectarian sane
tlty, and conventional devotion, poisoBa-
and blasts on the right hand, and on the left
secretly and safely: he who would shudder
ct the suggestion of taking a single penny
by fraud from his neighbour, and recoil at
the sight Of blood Justly, or unjustly shed,-
and hasten from the sound of the festiya
dance, as it falls on his pious ear as from.
moral contagion, can after all, revel with
fendish delight in the unhallowed banquet
of mangled reputation nor viii his bo--
som feel any compunctious risitations,
nor the, tranquility of his pious soul
be disturbed, though a brother fall to rise
no more, by his calumny, detraction and
SANDER.
The liar, the slanderer, the tattler, the
gossip, and the talebearer are all of the
same family-a precious trio, s'lorely, in
their lives, in death they should not be de
vided''
As there is no character so hateful in
life as the liar and slanderer; none leave
the world SO little regreued-none whose
memories rot so soon; they lie in the man
sions of death, ''unwept, unhonored and
unsung."-And when the liar has uttered
his last foul SANDER, and given the last