The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-07-07
TO GOSSIP Is A SIN.
DR.. Talmage Denounces the Practice
of Whispering of Evil.
Glasses 1t Among the Worlds Great
est VilIninies-MOre Harmful Than
Open slnnder-A Destroyer
of Good Names.
Copyright, 1899, by Louis Klopsch)
L. L. AD.. L. D

Washing ton, July z.
In this discourse DIR. Talmage vigor-
ously arraigns one of the great evils
that have cursed the world and urges
generous Interpretation of the cnarac-
tiers of others; text, Romans 1929,
Full of envy, murder, debate, deceit,
alignity-whispere
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
as whisperers. They are so called he
cause they generally speak undervoice
and in 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 overpowered with the spirit of gen
tleness, but because they want TO es-
cape the consequences of defamation.
II no ono hears but the person wills
pered unto, and the offender be ar
raigued, he can deny the whole thing,
for Whisperers are always trst-class
lars
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 muffied utterance from
sinister and depraved motive, and some
times you can only hear the sibilant
sound as the letter rs" 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 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 al meet
ings OF asylum directors and managers.
| They are the worst foes Of society, re-
sponsible for miseries inuumerahle;
they are the scayengers of the world,
| driving their cart through every com
munity, and to-day | hold up for your
| holy auathema and eXecratiun these
| whspcrcrs.
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 a
bachelor, pcrsisting in his colibacy
/ down into the siNties-iuGced, all the
way throurh-aud, some having failed
/ in their COMMUNAL designs upon him
the little missionary was put under the
rating fire of these Whispcrers. lie
was no doubt a rare morSel for their
standardization. and he cannot keep Lis
| patience any longer, and he lays ho.o
of these miscreuuts of the tongue and
/ gives them very hard setting down in
my text among the scouudrcl!y and the
murdcrous. Envy, murder, debate, de-
ccit, ma,iguity- whiSperers.'
The law of libel makes quick and
stout grip of open SANDER, If Should
i'm plain way, calling you by name
charge you with fraud or theft or muir
der or uncleau,iuess. tomorrow morn
ing ! might have pcreu.ptury docu'
ments served on me, and would have
to pay in dollars and cents for the dam
age ! had done your character, HuI
these creatures spoken of i'm my tex
are so small that they escape the fine
tooth comb Of the law. They 90 ON, auC
they go on, escaping the Judges and the
iuries and the penitentiarics. The dis
trict attorney cannot find them, The
sheriff cannot find them, the grand jury
cannot find them. shut them off from
one route of perfidy, and they start OF
another. You cannot 10y the force O
moral sentiment persuade them 10 de
sist. Nuu might as well read the Ten
Commandments TO a flock of crows, eX
pectiug them to retreat under the force
Of moral sentiment. They are to b,
found everywhere, these whisperers.
think their paradise is a country yillag
of about LOCO or 1900 people wher'
everybody knows everybody, but the!
also are to be found in large quontitie
in all our cities.
They have a prying dispositions The.
look into the basement windows at III
tables OF their nelghhors and can tel
just what they have morning and nigh
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 wors
construction on everything.
Some morning a wife descends int
the street, her eyes damp with tears
and that is a stimulus to the tattler an
is enough to set up a business for tire
or four weeks. 81 guess that husban
and wife don't live happily together,
wonder if h. hasn't been abusing her
It's outrageous. He ought to be dis
ciplined lie ought TO be brought u
before the church. III go right over I
my neighbours and IN let them kno'
about this matter" She ruShes in a