Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-03-14

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and you may never before have seen SO
guilty one as you there will see.
Whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so like
wise unto them" Just as the frost falls
upon the flower as well as the thistle,
so harsh judgment and unfriendly crit
cism and foul mouthed slander falls
upon the innocent as well as upon the
sinner Every day we see the pot call
ing the kettle black. Did you ever
know person who could see no good
in any oneY A person is said to be
chaste and pure; yes, in the day time,
is the answer Mr.. A., is a religious
man; yes, on Sundays. The minister
is said to be Jealous; the reply is that
is his trade. Some one is said to be lib
eral; yes, of other men s money. This
man is obliging; the reply is he wants
to get chance to cheat you. To him
religion is hypocrisy and honesty only
an accident and virtue only lack of
an opportunity to sin. love that old
stanza of Pope:
"Teach me TO feel another's woe,
To hide the fault see;
That mercy to others show,
That mercy show to me-"
How unlovableis the one with beam
in his own eye who spends his life
plucking at the notes in other people 6
eyes. A poor ideal of character Burns
never sang sweeter than when he said
"Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman,
To step aside is human"
Tale bearing. The tale bearer is one
of the most devoted servants of the
devil. He trades in scandal 1t is a
low calling yet some high people engage
in it. The neighborhood gossip is al
ways known to the tale bearer, and here
he goes and there he goes to talk about
his neighbor He may not do it through
any hatred or ill will. He may not in
tend to slander any ones good name.
1t may be innocent gossip.i there could
be such thing Satan loads the tale
bearer with lot of lies about the char
acter OF reputation of a neighbor and
he carries out the orders of Satan per.
fectly. He is vessel filled with some
reproach for the lest men and women
and the breeze Of rumor strikes the out
stretched sail and floats it out on its
mission of devitry. He is a serpent
coiled in the weeds along human path
ways ready to spring upon its victim.
Such one will destroy the happiness
of any home and is an unwelcome Wis,
itor in the best society, disagreeable
companion, a mystery to himself; he
strides the earth to blotch the fairest
record, and to injure the noblesl char
acter, and to wither the loftest reputa
ton. 1t takes life time to build a
character, but the slanderer would de
stroy it in moment. 1t is less excus-
able than theft and murder. Hunger
may drive one to steal. Heat of pas
sion may lead one to kill, but how one
can set up the slandering of one who
has never wronged him only shows
how evil is the human heart. If you
destroy the confidence of people in one S
virtue you might rs we'll have killed
him for he may never outlive it. Some
preachers and many church members
gossip and scandalize and many have
been the churches rent asunder by the
mischievous tale bearer.
No wonder the Apostle james warned
the Christian church against this. un
ruly member. This fiend tale bearer
goes up and down in the earth seeking
whom he may devour. am not speak
ing of milder gossip but of that which
takes away ones good name, slander.
Often they may have some little truth
mixed with their story, The beautiful
and chaste young lady by imprudence,
where no wrong was dreamed of, is at
once held up to the public by the SLAM
derer. The ancients held that the teller
and bearer OF false stories ought to be
hanged-one by the tongue, the other
by the ears. Neio set fire to Rome sim
ply to see the flames, unmoved by the
cries of the dying And so this fiend
delights in circulating slanderous re
ports that kindle heart burnings and
sends up the flames of wrath from an
outraged community that destroys the
happiness of homes. Is there one with
a brilliant prospect for the future?
The devil sets about his destruction.
Rumor comes to his aid and the tale
bearer brings him down in disgrace.
The lightning from tie heavens, the
cyclone upon the prairies, the sweeping
flood, the thunderous earthquake leave
awful desolation in their track, but
their horrors can not compare with the
ruin that follows in the wake of the in,
famous back bitter and tale bearing
busy body. Deep down in the hottest
hell, where dwells the foulest devil
will be the eternal abode OF the serpent
tongued slanderer Let Christian
tongues bear nobler message or bs
forever silent.
Frivolity is another abuse of the
tongue. Many a tongue is devoted pas
sionately to downright foolishness. Sen
sible words rarely iall from it upon the
air. If its words were written in bool
and placed at the book store, how much
in demand would it be either to cultur,