The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-26
GOSSIP AND GOSSIPERS
ARRAIGNED BY DIR. QUAYLE In HIS
SERMON LAST NIGHT,
The Pastor Spoke from the Text
"Take Heed to What You
Hear

DR.. W. A. Quayle preached to a large
congregation last night at the Meridian
street Church from the text, take heed
to what you hear" He said in part: Jesus
was not rambling talker. In Him there
was deliberacy that refutes the idea of
his making blunder when he said, Take
heed of what you hear / think ii fair to
say that He meant to take your ears to
school. He meant to teach the ears what
TO hear and what not to hear. There are
some things which we should heed and
some things to which we should be obliv-
ious. some people train their ears to hear
everything inconsequential, things that are
irrelevant, vain and foolish. Would it not
be worth while for us to train our ears to
hear all of the things that lead to the
great conclusions of life, and scorn all the
things that are irrelevant thereto?
One Of the things we ought not to hear is
gossip, for it is one of the most contempt
ible things that is attributed to the human
family. Sometimes gossip is devoted 20
inanities, or talking silly nothings-a
wicked waste Of valuable time. Sometimes.
though. gossip is a great deal worse; it has
poison on it. 1t is like the wasp-a very
little thing that leaves a great big sting.
In village gossip is worse than in a large
city, because everybody knows everybody
else, and usually tries to find out every
thing that concerns them. The man who
has any brain, any great thoughts, will
not allow his precious time to sift through
his fingers with such an idle and wicked
employment of it. Even the newspapers
N for he
are merely chronicles of other people s
business, with which the public should have
no concern. There are many who cannot
possibly find the time to read a line of the
Holy Bible, and yet II is an easy affair for
them to wade through two or three COL
umns of other peoples affairs. Society has
become tainted with gossip, and even the
Nation has become race Of gossipers. and
by and by, If We don't watch out, we will
become scandal-mongers.
Another thing Of which / am weary is
the buzzing of the ecclesiastical gossips-
those people who don't seem to have any,
thing else to do but to run around and
discuss with their neighbors who will be
the next bishop, and things of that sort
Then there Is kind of gossip that Is Sian.
derous-the dealing in innuendos. Those
people who deal In this class of gossip are
liars-they profess to know much but in
reality know nothing, for If they did they
would tell ii so fast 1t would make your
head swim. If all honorable men and all
d
gossip 1t would not be long until gossip
would cease. Those who are constantly
manipulating and exchanging gossip are
constitutionally unreliable. 1 charge you
in the name Of God. not to be gossip; II
takes so little of ii to mean the complete
ruin of human life. Cultivate the habi,
OF neither listening to or saying NEAR
things about people. Life is too short fol
such trivial inanities. Keep your own life
bright and beautiful. no matter what your
neighbor says or does. We ought to hear
everything that will do us good, everything
that will make us greater, everything thai
will enlarge the landscape of our lives
everything that will make us a more yalu
able friend. Hear everything that will ado
to your sum total of human good. Trair
your ear to hear wisdom, no difference
from whence II comes. Hear God, for life.
best blessing is the medium whereby Coo
talks to us. God is trying to get into oul
hearts. The Bible does not contain all OF
Gods efforts to reveal Himself unto us
We can see Him in everything-in the sky
the flowers. the rivers and the mountain.
and everything in nature. Hear Him. anC
take heed to what He says. Remember
that great moral responsibilities rest upor
you, and in the day of God you must an
swer for them. Remember what you heal
and take heed"