Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-10-25
EVIL SPEAKING.

one who has the least honor or love for
fellow, linen to have just knowledge Of
the extent to which the dcmon-spirit
has obtained power over the hearts OF
so vast majority of our people. In
consciously, perhaps, while the doors OF
the heart have been left ajar, scandal
has blown its arid breath, carrying with
it seeds of sin, misery and wretchedness,
which have taken root and sprung up,
and how soon the beautiful garden OF
; the heart has been robbed Of its stamp
q. of divinity. Where once bright angels
loved to dwell within its beautiful bow
ers, filling its arched domes with praise,
their music had ceased. Where once
blessomed the rose, nothing remains but
,briurs and bramblcs. Even the tiny
|, tosget-lne not, planted by the hand OF
one who was once cherished, had been
tltsod1es Under the imperjous tread, and
althpugh its little flowers breatheS
Af01Rfin pleasant fragrance with more
that natural sweetness while it is bleed
!. iIg, % not even angels linger to drop a
tear OF sorrow and regret, as they take
down their harps from the willow, to
siye last refrain over paradise lost
that this temple has become dehled, Its
beauty fast departing, the sunlight OF
heaven withdrawing its genial influence,
all soon to become barren waste.
Unconscious, perhaps, has been the
steward who has been entrusted with
this heavenly casket, that while he was
sleeping at his post the enemy came
pouring in like flood. Little lndul-
pences in scandal, like spirituous liquors
has inflamed the appetite, which, though
from one indulgence may for the time
become satiated but, ere long, comes
creeping back through its serpentlne
path to its unclean fountain there to
give gloat over another innocentvietim,
How soon the iron bands bar out all
GOOD thoughts, and the demon OF evil
holds its revel undisturbed, its green
eyes seeing only evil.
Mans guilty heart judges of his tel-
bowman by his own weakness andtolly,
and from this springs much ofthe ''they
saw" which has dinmed the eye and
bowed the head of the innocent. Mans
depravity sinks him in the scale OF self
respect; therefore man or woman often
suspects evil in others, for they know
their Judgment would be right in their
own case, were they circumstapced as
their victims.
But, hold your weakness belongs to
Won. not to another, and well may 1t
arrest your attention. Its banetul 'niin-
ence has been incorporated III your very
being, so
"Be not ready to condemn
The wrong thy brother may have done'
Ere YOU too harshly censure him,
OF human faults ask, have | none ~
Who is able to look into the heart OF
man and discern all thoughts, feelings,
and emotions Who can tell the strug-
ole of that young heart which has
fought and buffeted with the threatened
waves of life which so often seemed
ready to eugulf it in its cold embrace
What beautiful mark for the reno-
NOUS shafts of SANDER, and with what
quick perceptions they string their bows
and take their sight for their tendish
purpose, and how sure their work; ana
It's not the accusation that admits OF
defense, or the arrow that flies at noon
day that is most to be dreaded; It's the
cold, inscrutable glance, the curled lip
the chilled and altered manner. These
try the strength of womans torti'"de'
and gnaw with slow but certain too'h
the cable chain that holds the anchor OF
fidelity.