The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-07-14
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE SIN OF GOSSIP, LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
Full OF Envy, Murder, Debate, Deceit,
Malignity, hisperers'-Romans, Chap
ter 1, Verse go The Fire OF
Hellish Spirit.

and places as whisperers. They are so
called because they generally speak I'M
der voice and in a confidential way,
their hand to the side of their mouth
acting as funnel to keep the precious
information from wandering into the
wrong ear. They speak softly, not be-
cause they have lack of lung force, or
because they are overpowered with the
spirit of gentleness, but because they
want to escape the consequences OF
defamation. If no one hears but the
person whispered unto and the OF
fender be arraigned, he can deny the
whole thing, for whisperers are al
ways frst-class liars!
Some people whisper because they are
hoarse from a cold, or because they
wish to convey some useful informa-
ton without disturbing others; but the
creatures photographed by the apostle
in NV text give muffled utterance from
sinister and depraved motive, and
sometimes you can only hear the SID
liant sound as the letter IS" drops from
the tongue into the listening ear, lhe
brief hiss of the serpent as 1t projects
it's venom.
Whisperers are masculine and feml-
nine. with a tendency to majority on
the sides of those who are called the
lords of creation" Whisperers are
heard at every window of bank cash
Ter. and are heard in all counting
rooms as we'll as in sewing socletles
and at meetings of asylum directors
and managers. They are the worst
foes Of society; responsible Tor mis-
cries innumerable; they are the scaV-
engers of the world, driving their cart
through every community, and TO-DAY,
hold up for your holy anathema anu
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 beside that, he was
bachelor, persisting in his cellpacy
down into the sixties, indeed, all the
way through, and some having 1alleu
in their connubal designs upon MIN,
the little missionary was put under the
raking fire of these whisperers. he
was no doubt a rare morsel tor tnelr
standardization; and he cannot keep MS
patience any longer and he lays hold
of these miscreants of the tongue ana
gives them a very hard setting down
in my text among the scoundreliy ana
the murderous. Envy, murder, de-
bate, deceit, malignity; whisperers.'
The law of libel makes quick ana
stout grip of open SANDER. If should
in a plain way, calling you by name,
charge you with fraud, or theft, or
murder. or uncleanness, tomorrow
morning l might have peremptory
documents served on me, and would
have to pay in dollars and cents for
the damage had done your character.
But these creatures spoken of in my
text are so small that they escape the
fine-tooth comb of the law They go
on, and they go on, escaping the judges
and the juries and the penitentiarles.
The district attorney cannot find them,
the sheriff cannot find Them the grand
Jury cannot find them. Shut them Off
from one route of perfdy and they
start on another. You cannot by the
force of moral sentiment persuade
them to desist. You might as well
read the Ten Commandments to flock
of crows, expecting them to retreat
under the force of moral sentiment
They are to be found every where,
these whisperers. l think their para
disc is country village of about one
or two thousand people where every
body knows every body. But they also
are to be found in large quantities in
all our cities.
They have a prying disposition.
They look into the basement windows
at the tables of their neighbors, and
can tell just what they have morning
and night to eat. They can see as far
through keyhole as other people can
see with a door wide open. They can
hear conversation on the opposite side
of the room. Indeed, the world to
always put the worst construction on
everything.
Some morning a wife descends into
the street, her eyes damp with tears,
and that is a stimulus to the tattler
and is enough to set up business for
three or four weeks Il guess that
husband and wife don't live happily to-
gether. / wonder if he hasn't been
abusing her? It's outrageous. He
ought to be disciplined. He ought to
be brought up before the church. I'll
go right over to my neighbors and I'll
let them know about this matter" She
rushes in all out of breath to neigh
boris house and says: 20! Mrs. Allear,
have you heard the dreadful news?
Why, our neighbor, poor thing, came
down off the steps in flood OF tears
That brute of a husband has been
abusing her. Well, it's just as ex-
pected. l saw him the other afternoon
very smiling and very gracious to some
ona who cuoiled hack and I thought