Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-07-10

TO shed Dlood III tnee nave tney taken
gifts to shed blood" Tales in the mar
gin reads SANDER. "Then slanderer is
murderer and thief "Thou shalt
not kill" Is not man just as guilty
in the sight of God, who crushes and
ruins, and destroys character, as he who
destroys the body They carry tales
to shed blood" that is to kill the reputa-
ton and honor Of those against whom
they were uttered. 1t matters not wheth-
er we uttered an inconsiderate truth, or
deliberate malice, it will cause ruin, and |
how can we plead inocency of motive,
when the action is a crime. But one |
says, sought relief by Just speaking Of
the thing to friend whom could trust.
Yes and that friend relieved themselves
in the same way. If you were burdened
with the knowledge of wrong, why not
seek relief in the way GodIhas ordained
by going to the one who had done the
wrong, and if he hear thee, thou hast
gained thy brother, and saved soul
from death. Another says, what do you
care SO long as the slander is lie, and
the heart and inward purity are preserv-
ed !? Would man who owns beautiful
home, and has adorned his grounds with
taste and elegance, not care to see the
outside of his home, with his fences and
shrubbery, all charred, blacked and
deadened by the fiery element? What if
his rooms inside could yield comfort and
even joy? What passer by would be-
lieve there was purity within 2
Bacon says, Vol. 9th, page 201: Its
no excuse that the slanderous words spo-
ken are true. For malicious SANDER is
the relating either trutl or falsehood for
the purpose of creating misery. For
truth may be made instrumental to the
success of malicious designs, as well as
} falsehood." And let Us hear what John
r Wesley, the father of Iethodism says OF
) evil speaking:
/ "All man says, may be true as the
4 bible, and yet be evil speaking. Sup
pose have seen man drunk, or heard
a him curse or swear. III tell this when
$ he is absent it is evil speaking. Thi'
+ called by its proper name is backbiting
It If it is delivered in soft quiet manner
h then we call it whispering still it il
W evil speaking, and thecsmmand 'speal
" evil of no man, is trampled under foot
,r If we relate to another, the fault of
f. third person, when he is not present t
# answer for himself" In Prov ID, 2, w
J. are told, :" 1t is the glory of God to con
d ceal thing" but the slanderer and tn
re tale bearer have quite different way o
< doing; they reveal everyl4ng they kno,
w or suspect, to the present and eternal in
y. jury of their brother. Their motto is
5. "Tell it in Gath, publish it in Askelon
d let the uncircumsized triumph" Their
of are many persons of rough, and some
ID what coarse exterior, not of proposes
d ing manners, owing partly to the pecu
RS liar texture of their minds, partly to ed
" ucation; yet possessing sterling primo
al pies founded ON the law of love to thei
,e neighbor, who with a quick intuitiv
at sense of their awkwardness, and inabil
r ty to be graceful, aresnevertheless keer
is ly alive to the criticisms of the backbi
s. ing whisperers; who with eyes an
of shrugs give them to understand the
tn presence is not agreeable; and wit
ne wounded sensitive spirits, grow MOI
ne moody and more diagreeable, and
III time desperate, for want of that symp
Is thy of which the slanderer has robb'
i'd them, and which the gospel enjoins WHIT
he it says, feed the hungry" Lo
he worketh no ill to his neighbor" Thel
Is. fore, love is the fulfilling of the la
ur Slander and backbiting truths are CO
ne tinually working all kinds of i'll to 0
NO neighbors and society. 1t is the viol
nd ton of the law of God, of holland,
er. decency, of honesty, truth and 10,
me Before the slanderer may lie an EIDE
nd behind will be desolate wilderne
I'll We are told a whisperer separates ch
his friends" How many have been aliel
nd ted, homes made desolate and sad, m
an. ruined in their employment, by the vo
ON of calumny. Men stand appalled, at
for heartlessness of the wretch who thru
ck- from his door naked starving man,
md a cold biting storm, and then delibera
of ly pelts him with the icieles which ha
ed. from his roof Yet is he any worse
i've the sight of God ? If We judge him
d ? the spirit, as well as the letter of
,ey gospel, than the man who sees hun.
ust naked soul, whom men have stripped
es character, honor and sympathy, S
the craving for love and the mantle of ch
ue, ity, yet who will hurl at his defence
\ to head, all the weapons of malice /:
ETY.. SANDER found in his own heart, /.
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