The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-07-07
TO GOSSIP rs A SIN.
DR.. Talmage Cenoupces the Practice
of Whispering of Evil
Glasses II Among the Worlds Great
est NiIIainies-More Harmful Than
Open sInnder-A Destroyer
of Good Names.
Copyright. 1899. by Louis Klopsch,

tHdt nave cursed tne NOrlu ana urH'
generous Interpretation of the chara
ters of others; text, Romans l:2
Full of envy, murder, debate, decei
Observation-Disclosures
Paul was here calling the long roll {
the worlds villainy, and he puts in til
midst of this roll those persons know
in all cities and communities and place
us whisperers. They are so called y,
cause they generally speak undervoic
and in a confidential way, tieiI hand t
the side of their mouth acting as "A fun
mel to keep the precious information
from wandering into the wrong cal
They speak softly not because the.
have lack of lung force or because the,
are overpowered with the spirit of gen
tleness, but because they want TO es
cape the consequences of defamation
If no one hears but the person wills
pered unto, and the offender be ar
raigned. he can deny the whole thing
for whisperers are always first-class
liars!
Some people whisper because they are
hoarse from a cold or because they wish
to convey some useful information
without disturbing others, but the crea-
lures photographed by the apostle in
my text give muffled utterance from
sinister and depraved motive, and some
times you can only hear the sibilant
sound as the letter IS" drops from the
tongue into the listening ear, the brief
hiss of the serpent as it projects its
venom.
Whisperers are masculine and femi-
nine, with a tendency to majority on
the side of those who are called "the
lords of creation" Whisperers are
heard at every window of bank cashier
and are heard in all countingrooms as
well as in sewing societies and at meet
ings of asylum directors and managers.
They are the worst foes of society, re-
sponsible for miseries innumerable;
they are the scavengers of the world.
driving their cart through every com
munity, and to-day hold up for your |
holy anathema and execration these |
whisperers.
From the frequency with which Paul |
speaks of them under different titles ! /
conclude that he must have suffered
somewhat from them. His personal
presence was very defective, and that
made him perhaps the target of their
ridicule, and besides that he was
bachelor, persisting in his celibacy
down into the sixties-indeed, all the
way through--and. some having failed
in their connubial designs upon him.
the little missionary was put under the
raking fire of these whsperers. lie
was no doubt rare morsel for their
standardization, and he cannot keep his |
patience any longer, and he lays hold
OF these miscreants of the tongue and
gives them very hard setting down in
my text among the scoundrelly and the 4,
murderous. Envy, murder. debate, de-
ceit. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
The law of libel makes quick and {
stout grip of open SANDER. If / should .
in plain way, calling you by name, D
charge you with fraud or theft or MUIR ID
der or uncleanliness, tomorrow morn
ing | might have pcremptory docu-
ments served on me. and / would have e
to pay in dollars and cents for the dam 81
age / had done your character. But 81
these creatures spoken of in my text y
are SO small that they escape the fine p
tooth comb of the law. They go on, and n
they 60 on, escaping the judges and the Il
uries and the penitentiaries. The dis 5
irict attorney cannot find them, the
'heriH cannot find them. the grand jury al
'annot find them. Shut them off from i
me route of perfidy, and they start on ca
mother. You cannot by the force of u
moral sentiment persuade them 10 de- III
list. You might as well read the Ten OF
commandments TO flock of crows, ex- OF
ecting them 10 retreat under the force su
Z moral sentiment They are TO be lie
otnd everywhere, these whisperers. OF
hlnk their paradise is a country village pl
I about 1000 or 1000 people where 1t
'erybody knows everybody. but they co
lso are to be found in large quantities an
! all our cities M
ihey have prying disposition. They liza
ck INTO the basement windows at tho w
Ibles OF their neighbors and can tell m'
1T what they have morning and night
eat. They can see as far through M
eyhole as other people can see with a mi
'or wide open. They can hear CONVEX |
ZION on the opposite side of the room. oh
ideed, the world to them is whisper CO
q gallery. They always put the worst no
instruction on everything. ha
some morning a wife descends into tn
e street, her eyes damp with tears, AT
ID that is stimulus to the tattler and
enough TO set up business for three pc
Tour weeks. II guess that husband ha
ID wife don't live happily together. ! yo
onder II he hasn't been abusing her? thi
s outrageous! He ought to be dis 20
pinned. lie ought to be brought up bu
lore the church. III go right over 20 tn,
Y neighbours and IN let them know the
out this matter" She rushes in all tho
u OF breath TO neighbours house and the
Us; oh Mrs. Allear. have you heard aft
dreadful news? Why, our neigh. ra,
r. poor thing. came down off the tur
Fps in food oj tears. That brute in
husband has been abusing her iii
Fill It's just as ] expected. ! saw the
N the other afternoon very smiling the
q very gracious to some one who abe
Iiles back. and though then would the
II go up 20 him and tel him be had toll.
tier go home and look fter his wife me