The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-03-28
lead and look knowingly and say nothing.

You say yes" or "aa.ah, or
with arms encountered thus, or this head
Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase
AS well we know, or we could an if we
would, Or, iii we list to speak, or there be
an il they might.
Or such ambiguous giving out"
do you know any such persons? Do you
ever catch yourself doing something of the
sort? And were you not ashamed of YOUR
sell? There ia another feature of this vice
which is probably more common. mean
what the Scripture calls 'tale bearing;"
not tale making, but tale telling. st.
James describes these people, wandering
from house to house, idle fathers also and
busy bodies, speaking things they oaght
not. Every town, every parish has some
OF these aocial persons. And strange to
say. they are often otherwise most esti
roahIe people, but they seem ~ slough they
had been been bitten by a tsrantula and
could not keep still. Their omnipresence
is marvellous. "Nothing hnman is foreign
to Them They know everybody, and all
about everybody, what they nave DONE
and what they are going TO do, and why
they do it. They are the peopls whom
when you meet them You inssinctiyely ask,
What is the news?" because you feel
morally sure that il there il any news 60
ing on they will know il. Is there trouble
suspected in family anywhere about
which yon wish TO mako inquiry Go to so
and so. Flo will know, she can tell you
Is there any difficulty brewing in the
church? They can tell you Is there any
thing in that evil story otlcas? They can
tell You. These are not malicious people
They arc sometimes really sorry about the
things they hear, hus all the same they
hear them. They would rather 1hat un-
comfortable aud hur,iul thin.. would not
occur, hns ithry mus, occur they want to
hear about them right away.
There isanothe class Of people sone,h-
Ing like thcss whom cannot ncquit Of
malice; that is She talebear.r power An
evil report IL in circulation about Won or
mr., 0' 'he very existence OF which we are
rntirsl, ignorant, Some OF these good
friends Of ours come and tellus the whole
story. They say they do it reluctantly,
taey woGld rather no, speak Of it. hut they
"taink we Ought to know it, How CON
sjdcratc they are They know tine story is
fs''e, AVID ahat we canuo; pos.ihly do any
thing 10 "top it, Int ssil they think we
onght 10 know it They are not always
even thus open about it. They hear the
evil story in circulation and tell a dozen
people the whole miserable business, and
then add, II do thnk some one ought 10
tell him about it, it is hurting him very
mach. y OF course they don't think their
telling the dozen people who hsv, never
heard OF it beiore might hurt him. because
they tell it az friends, and of course people
will believe what 80 considerste friend
say. reluctantly.
'Oh, that thi, notwithstanding crew,
Where all reduced to one or two,
ANA tieI Wcrc painted Feu OF Dixie
Tha. everyone might know them
There is one other class OF people who
ought to ponder upon tho Apostolic injunc-
ton 10 bride their tongues, and only one
| mean TO mention now. mean those
who always Pride themselves upon always
speaking out their minis. "Thc rough
side OF us is always out such one says.
II say whas think, "if don't like
man tell him So, and 30 on. They are
continually saying uncomfo; table things
They make other people uncomfortable
They do not, as a matter Of fact, speak out
their own minds moe honestly than other
people. They are always ready to bully
weak people, but il they think they are in
danger of getting as good as they give their
tongue becomes as docile az can be. They
can bride it with thread
Brethon, words are things. They are
sometimes explosive things. We handle
them far too recklessly. Surely OF all the
accounting we may have to do, the giving
account OF every idle word will be the most
humiliating.
"lf any man among you seemeth to be
religious, and bridleth not his tongue, his
religion is in vain" His relgion-and
this is way, with the tongue bless We God
even the Father, and therewith curse we
men which are made after the similtude OF
God, My breshen, these things ought not
to ne Doth a fountain send forth at the
same place sweet water and bitter Or
vine figs? So ran no fountain yield both
salt water and fresh.
'sls is not that which entereth into man
that dcfleth him, bus that which cometh
out Of him, Philadelphia Press
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