The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-03

Bgy. Or. rALiAAoE pENouNcEs the
WHISPERING OF EVIL.

II ID Chased Among the Worries
Great villainAss - More Harmfsl
FAaa Opea alander - DESTROYING
Good Names the Worst Of Crimes.
Copyright. Loua Flop.ch. lsse.]
WARRINGTON, July 2.-In this discourse
DR.. Talmage vigorously arraigns one Of
the great evils that have cursed the
world and urges generous Interpretation
Of the characters of others; text, TO
mans /, 20, Full Of envy, murder, de-
bate, deceit, acknowledgements
Paul was here calling the long roll OF
the worlds villainy, and he puts in the
midst of this roll those persons known
in all cities and communities and places
rs whisperers. They are so called be-
cause they generally speak undervoice
aud in a confidential way, their hand to
the side of their mouth acting as fun
mel to keep the precious information
from wandering into the wrong ear. They
speak softly not because they have lack
Of lung force or because they are over
powered with the, spirit Of gentleness,
but because they want to escape the con
sequences Of defamation. II no one hears
but the person whispered unto and the
offender be arraigned, he can deny the
whole thing, for whisperers are s''ways
first class liars - @-
Some people whisper because they are
hoarse from a cold or because they wish
to convey some useful information with
hut N
photographed by the apostle in my text
give mu6led utterance from sinister and
depraved motive, and sometimes you can
only hear the sibilant sound as the letter
"S'' drops from the tongue into the lis
tening ear, the brief hiss Of the serpent
as it projects its venom.
Whisperers are masculine and femi-
nine, with 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 counting rooms as well as in
sewing societies and at meetings of asy-
lum directors and managers. They are
the worst foes of society, responsible for
uiseries innumerable; they are the scaV-
engers of the world, driving their cart
through every community, and today l
hold up for your holy anathema and ex-
ecration these whisperers.
From the frequency with which Paul
speaks of them under different titles l
conclude that he must have suffered
somewhat from them. His personal pres
ence was very defective, and that made
him perhaps the target of their ridicule,
and besides that he was bachelor, per-
sisting in his celibacy down into the six
ties-indeed, all the way through-and,
some having failed In their connuhial de-
signs upon him, the little missionary was
put under the raking fire of these whis-
perers. He 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
murderous. Envy, murder, debate, de-
ceit, malignity -whisperers."
More Harmful Than SANDER.
The law of libel makes quick and stout
grip of open Islander. If l should in u
plain way, calling you by name, charge
you with fraud or theft or murder or
uncleanness. tomorrow morning might
have peremptory documents served on
me, and I would have to pay in dollars
and cents for the damage l had done
your character. But these creatures spo-
ken of in my text are so small that they
escape the fine tooth comb of the law.
They 60 on, and they go on, escaping the
judges and the juries and the penitentia-
ries. 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, ex-
pecting them to retreat under the force
Of moral sentiment. They are to be found
everywhere, these whisperers. l think
their paradise is a country village Of
about 1000 or 1000 people where every
body knows everybody, 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
door wide open. They can hear CONVEX
sation on the opposite side of the room.
Indeed, the world to them is whisper
ing gallery. They always put the worst
construction on everything
Some morning wife descends into the
street, her eyes damp with tears, and that
Is stimulus to the tattler and is enough
to set up business for three or four
weeks. 81 guess that husband and wife
don't live happily together. l wonder If
he hasn't been abusing her? It's out
rageous! 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: ooh, Mrs. Allear,
have you heard the dreadful news1 Why,
our neighbor, poor thing, came down of
| the steps in food of tears. That brute
of husband has been abusing her. Well,
it's just as expected. saw him the
other afternoon very smiling and very
gracious to some one who smiles back,
and thought then would just go up to
him and tell him he had better go home
and look after his wife and family, who
probably at that very time were up stairs
crying their eyes out. Oh, Mrs. Allear,
do have your husband go over and put
an end to this trouble! It's simply out
rageous that our neighborhood should be
disturbed in this way. It's awful"
The fact is that one man or woman set
on fire of this hellish spirit will keep a
whole ncighborhood a-boil. It does not
require any very great brain. The chief
requisition is that the woman have
small family or no family at ALL because
if she have a large family then she would
',ave to stay at home and look after them.
1t is very important that she be single or
have no children at all, and then she can
attend to all the secrets Of the neighbor-
hood all the time. A woman with large
family makes very poor whisperer.
Evil Words Travel Fast.
It is astonishing how these whisper
ers gather up everything. They know
everything that happens. There are tel
ephone and telegraph wires reaching
from their ears to all the houses in the
neighborhood. They have no taste for
healthy news, but for the scraps and
Feelings thrown out Of the scullery into
the back yard they have great avidity.
On the day when there is new scandal
in the newspapers they have no time to
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