Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-03
WHISPERED VENOM.
THE VOICE OF THE GOSSIP LIKE THE
SERPENT'S HISS.
DR.. Ta1mage Says the PurveyOr of
Idle Tales Is the Poisoner of Socie-
fy-A Strong Arrangement of Liars
! and TnttIers.


WASHINGTON, July I'm this dis
one of the great evils that have cursed
Ehe world and urges generous interpre-
tation of the character of others; text,
Romans i, %, "Full of envy, murder,
debate, deceit, malignity; whispere-e
Paul was here calling the long rol u
the worlds villainy, and he puts i'm sns
midst of this roll those persons known
in all cities and communities and
places as whisperers. They are so call
ed because they generally speak under
voice and in a confidential way, their
hand to the side of their mouth acting
as funnel to keep the precious infor-
mation from wandering into the wrong
ear. They speak softly not because
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 defama-
ton. If no one hears but the person
whispered unto, and the offender be ar
raigned, he can deny the whole thing,
for whisperers are always first class
liars!
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 my text give muff1ed utterance from
sinister and depraved motive, and
sometimes you can only hear the sibi-
liant sound as the letter "S" 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
ssthe lords of creation" Whisperers are
heard at every window of bank cash
Ter and are heard in all counting
rooms as well as in sewing societies
and at meetings of asylum directors
and managers. They are the worst
foes of society, responsible for miseries
innumerdble; they are the scavengers
of the world, driving their cart through
every community, and today hold up
for your holy anathema and execration
these whisperers.
Paul q Victim.
: From the frequency with which Paul
SpPdkS Ol IuClu uuucl uIhSISAI IllACO L
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 a |
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 whisperers. He was |
no doubt a rare morsel for their scan |
ilalization, and he cannot keep his |
patience any longer, and he lays hold Of |
these miscreants of the tongue and |
gives them a very hard setting down |
in my text among the scoundrelly and |
the murderous. ENVY, murder, de- |
bate, deceit, malignity; whisperers."
The law of libel makes quick and |
stout grip of open SANDER. If l should |
in a plain way, calling you by name,
charge you with fraud or theft or MUIR
der or uncleanness, tomorrow morn
ing I might have peremptOry docu-
ments served on me, and would have
TO pay in dollars and cents for the
damage I 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 penitentiaries.
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 we'll
read the Ten Commandments to flock
OF crows, expecting them to retreat I'M
der the force of moral sentiment. They
are to be found everywhere, these
think their paradise is
country village of about 1000 or 1000
people, where everybody 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 a
keyhole as other people can see with
door wide open. They can hear con-
Eersation on the opposite side Of the
room. Indeed, the world to them is
gallery. They always put
the worst construction on everything.
a Tiendish Spirit.
Some morning 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. 81 guess that hus-
band and wife don't live happily to-
gether. I 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
30 right over to my neighbors and I'll
Int them know about this rnattarn She