The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-03-15
SUNDAYS SERMON.
GOSSIP AND GOSsIPERS-LEASING
i. Q. LYING.
Scalding the Scandal ongers and De-
nouncing the Deoeitful.


If the pulpit is Of any worth what
ever, if it IL not q useless piece of fur
niture In tins utilitarian age, it ought
to expose and war; against the vices
OF the day. 1t ought to offer some
respite and antidote for the cares and
temptations of our every day expert
ence, and this train Of thought leads
me TO dwell on the sin Of idle gossip
and uncharitable scandal, or, an it is
called in the text, the sin OF leasing.
Gods word repeatedly ~denounces the
sin of originating or spreading false
reports.
My text is on m passage which
does so, as you will see 10y reading
from the fourth verse of the psalm:
Thou art not q God that hath pleas
ure in wickedness, neither shall evil
dwell with thee. The foolish shall not
stand in thy sight; thou hateth all
workers OF iniquity. Thou shalt de-
stroy them that speak leasing; the
Lord will abhor the bloody aud deceit
full man."
Let us leave these general principles
and come to practical application. For
years your town has been stigmatized
and it's atmosphere has burned with
moral stencil and there is scarcely q
family here but what has had it's sacred
ness invaded hy some wretch, and no M
has dared to raise his yoic. or pen
in defense of morality and truth, and
even individuals have refrained from
speaking and acting because they hoped
bv such silence to ouencb the fire. Has
II had the desired effect No. no. a
thousand times. AT times it has smonld-
cred and limos disappeared. But upon
the ADVENT of another family mr. indyidnal
the torch would be applied to those
smouldering embers. and within a few
DAYS the past would be rssurrected. The
stranger would know all the stigmas
which twenty years could not bury.
Wadsworth has had enough of moral
stencil. Men and women must act in
order to clear the atmosphere of these
cholera Observation-Disclosures. base
less Neutrality-suspicious. the mo-
tives and acts of innocent people. the
idolization of lust by the ungodly and the
various forms of vice OF q wicked tongue.
intrigue, Islander, back- billings. are some
OF your moral evil. which TODAY cry
mlRhtlly Tor the cleansing waters of n
deluye.
To-day YOU wife, nv wife. your
daughter or nv daughter cannot ride
with a gentlemen friend. or walk your
public streets with that friend or nave
that friend visit her home without the
,onsciousness that some black-vuard
is ready to blacken her good
name by saving In public that The
friendly drives and walks with her or
visits to her home are to accomplish some
object other than morality and friendship.
They even make bold to saw that vour
wives and daughters who come to this
temple. dedicated to God and His ser
vice. come for purposes other tban to
worship God.
That the men and women are branded
with A name which ont of respect for the
childr,n present | decline to inter
stand ready to give the names of parties
who made the assertions. For pure
spite or petty jealousy. or pure unadnlt-
Grated meaness some OF your people hold
nothing sacred evidently have no re-
spect for God. woman or man.