The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-11-30

nine cases out Of ten the work was
done by whisperers. All was going
or smoothly until ONE day ~ he one
WI. spered a suspicion about your cred
it. Perhaps you sold your carraiage
because you thought it was useless
expense. The whisperers began to
wonder why you sold it. They sand.
Perhaps his business is going down"
Yes, it must be going down" Per
haps you had to borrow money from
a bank. Some director whispered it
outside. You lest heavily by the
failure Of friend, The suspicious
! that you could net,bear the pressure
was started and it lsaped from lip to
lip until every body whom you hap
pencd to owe wanted his money and
the business world closed in on you
like a pack of wolves, and with assets
more than enough to meet your liza
bilIiies crushed in everything. How
many misrepresentation of tins kind
business men suffer. We discuss
sometimes in ministerial churches
why so many commercial gentlemen
do not go to church. One great rea-
son is that by the time Saturday night
comes they are tagged out with the
annoyances of the week. They have
had enough meannesses Practioed on
them to leave their nervous system
all a-;witch. Many do not under
stand why the audiences assembled
here on Sabbaths differs from any
Sabbath audience on earth in having
a majority Of men. 1t is because
preach so much TO business men, and
| try never to let a Sabbath pass
without in prayer or sermon 10 uttel
sympathy for those in commercial
struggle, and | remember now that
nine-tenths of that struggle is made
by the whisperers. If people would
mind their own business we would
have the millennium next week.
These gad-abouts, these talebearers,
these back-biters, these everlasting
snooks-I hate them with a holy and
vehement and ever increas ng hatred
and / love to hate them
But if it is wrong to despoil a mans
good name how much worse TO dam
age a wOman's reputation. THAI
style of Of Infamous work is going OF
from century to sentury and ALWAYS
, by whisperOrs One whisperers start,
. a suspicion. The next whisperer tell
the suspicion as an established fact
8 And many woman as honorable a
: your mother or ulster, has been whis
r percd out of all kindly association
c and whispered into the grave. Now
!. there are people who say there is NJ
t hell, But if there is no hell for sucl
n ar accused despoiler of woman's gooC
:. name, then it's high time we take vi
a collection and have ono built.
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b 1 solemnly charge all OF you I,
e make right and holy use of you
tongue. Though it is loose at one en-,
: and can swing either way it is fasten
cd at the other end to the floor of you
u mouth and you are. responsible TO
which way it swings.
II you whisper, whisper good en-
0 enlargement to the disheartened anc
= hope to the lost. The time will sool
$ come when we will all have to whis
, per. The voice will become feeble IL
the last sickness, and though w,
could once shout and sing and halloc
till the forest answered in echo, w,
can only whisper comfort to thos,
;. when We leave behind and whisper
? about onr hope Of heaven. While ]
speak there are hundreds whispering
their last utterance. In thar BolemH
hour which will soon come to us all
may it be found thas we did our best
i to serve Christ and cheer our com
I rades in earthly struggle, not only
our hand but our tongue consecrated
TO God, and so the shadows about oul
dying pillow shall not be the evening
. twilight of gathering night, but the
P morning twilight of an everlasting
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