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

robbing poor person of his last dollar
it is all they have left. To trample
upon lost character, when some are en-
deavoring to bring them back again to
God, to society, to the church, is like the
elder brother in the gospel slandering
his younger brother, to his father, who
was rejoicing that this my son was dead,
and is alive again, was lost and is found.
How pitiless is the slanderers baleful
breath it is the chief enemy of public
good-a disturber of peace. Prophets
and righteous men have suffered death,
and even the innocent Lamb of God was
pierced to the soul by this deadly weap-
on. 1t is a manifest sign of injustice,
and evidently want Of understanding,
to speak i'll of our neighbor.
We are told in Gods word, That a
talcbearer revealeth secrets" and "the
simple believe every word, but he that
is of faithful spirit concealeth the mat
ter" The slanderer is worse than a
thief. He who takes our goods may re-
store them again; or we may replace
them. but he that steals mans charac-
ter can never restore it. SHAKESPEARE, in
the Moor of Venice, says: !" He who
steals my purse steals trash but the pill
ferer of my good name, robs me Of that
which will not enrich him, and makes
me poor indeed"
If slander fall upon the great, they
may outride the storm but let it fall
upon the poor and friendless, or one who
has long battled with disappointments,
and they sink beneath the buffeting
waves, broken hearted and despairing."
Slander is the essence of all the evil
passions envy, hatred, vanity, strife,
wrath and revenge. The slanderer, tale
bearer and whisperer, are more to be
dreaded in any community, than the
thief, the murderer, or assassin. One
writer has justly termed this slanderous
trio as "Satan's post riders" and should
he lose these trumpeters who are sound
ing charges against life, liberty and per
sonal security those aiders and abettor
of his by which we are surrounded OF
all sides, from the public walk, to thu
privacy of home; well might he tremble
for they are the chief support of his king
dom on earth. Ever since satan wa
found in the garden, where his first &C
was to accuse God to man, by saying t
) the woman aye shall not die, &c." h
has striven for the mastery over the hu
: man heart, and the world; and chic
t. among his standard bearers is the sian
Il derer. Satan is never more pleased, tha
when some of his abettors succeed In Ell
tering the ranks of Prince Immanue
+ and sitting under the shadow of Mour
Zion, they are counterfeiters in the Sc
vice, serving the prince of darkness; an
v no spot on earth affords them SO muc
: vantage ground for using the enemy
> weapons skillfully. Such are deceivin
themselves while endeavoring to devceiS
e others. Their works are manifest, eve
; among those with whom they walk, bl
s they cannot serve two masters, nor IL
: those lying slanderers "who diggeth u
/ evil with their lips" think to deceive II
/ searcher of hearts, who has said let the1
II grow together until the harvest, and
e will send forth my angels who shall gat
1 er the wheat (Which is love, joy, peac
L long-sufering, gentleness, faith, NEE
T ness, temperance,) into the garner, b
d the chaff (adultery, fornication, unclea
If ness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcral
n hatred, variance, emulation, wrath, strli
re seditions, herisies, envyings, murder
IN drunkenness, revellings) will he bu
a. with fire unquenchable. RHEA.
ed Saxtons River, Vt, June %, 1868.
ue ANcrrNr REAPING MACHINES.-Mal