The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-11-20
Whisperers.

Delightful is the service and happy
the audience free from the disturbers Of
its peace.
Those who attend church, or lecture,
or concert, not to see and be seen, but
to worship and to listen, must frequent
ly deduct large percentage from antic-
ipsted profit and enjoyment lost to them,
through the thoughtlessness Of ill-bred
whisperers, who find in public places a
never-fsiling stimulant to their communi-
cativeness. to whom people are objects SO
inspiring and suggestive. their comments
thereon must be Immediate and constant.
They seem to utter all their thoughts,
reserving no opinions for private reflec-
tion or future discussion. Their busi-
ness talent directed in any useful chan
mel, and cultivated to worthy ends,
would be admirable. The rapidity of
their observations, and the number Of
their inventories during single service
Is often astonishing; while their general
knowledge of and profound interest in
persons under discussion is mortifying
to one who with all the facilities of init
macy has failed to learn half as much as
these industrious observers and inquir-
ecs seem to know.
The solemnities of funeral would
seem to be sufficient to restrain the in
diligence of this cheerful psstime. But
one might sometimes conclude that no
entertainment could more delight these
spontaneous beings than the deliberate
process of burial service. II there
might anything occur that would awe or
charm them into silence! Alas, they are
irrepressible e-desecrators and uncon-
s;ious robbers everywhere.
The finest passages of the concert are
to them only an exhibition Of musical
gymnastics, and of people and good
clothes. When you would give yourself
wholly to the delight Of the hour, nor
lose strain of that message which COM
Jag through notes and bars, and skilled
Interpreters is divine with an eloquence
more subtle than words, your enjoyment
may be ruinous!y interrupted by the COM
monplsce gossip Of an adjacent whisper
er.
Sometimes parents are devout wor-
shippers near pulpit and altar, while their
children are provoking to wrath quite as
good people who chance to have sittings
further back or among the singers in the
gallery. Imagining themselves free
from observation they are also free from
restraint, and are unconsciously and
loudly contepding in favor of family Sit
tings. For the sufferers there is no rem
edy.
A choir must remain at its post, i'm
prove its powers of concentration and
try to follow the words Of the more dis
tant but often less distinct speaker. II
the offenders are children of not too
large . growth, one may venture de-
precating glance, and the colloquy be-
comes more guarded. but ominous. and
you have growing conviction that you
have only diverted their attention to
yourself aud have become the theme OF
their not always flattering comments
Members of churches, professed
Christians, attending services with de-
nomination not their own, do sometimes
80 far forget the sscredness of hour and
place, a. well as their selfrespect and
the courtesy due to othevs as to assume
no attitude of worship during prayer.an
whisper right through as if prayer was
not prayer except in their own form and
In their own church and as if therefore
they were at perfect liberty to disgrace
themselves and disturb. others. away
from their church homo.
Until there il less annoyance from the
social proclivities of human nature,
churches may without fear Of Journalism
60 on instituting and contending for
ssinnovations" that ultimately tend to the
promotion cf decency and order.
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