Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-01-27
AFFAIRS OF OTHERS.
WE SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN
THEM, SAYS Or. TALMAGE.
The Busybody Has n Mission to Per-
form When His Motive Is GOad.
Search Ont the Miserable and Oner
Them Consolation.

form when His Motive Is GO0d.
Search Out the Miserable and O1er
Them Consolation.
copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1901
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-In this dis
course DR.. Talmage shows how we
should interest ourselves In the affairs
of others for their benefit, but never
for their damage; text. | Peter iv, 10,
"a busybody in other mems matters"
Human nature is the same in all
ages. In the second century of the
worlds existence people had the same
characteristics as people in the nine
teenth century. the only difference be.
ing that they had the characteristics
for a longer time. Ii was 500 years Of
goodness or 500 years Of meanness in
stead of goodness or meanness for 40
or 80 years. Well. Simon Peter. who
was O keen observer of what was go
ing on around him. one day caught
sight of a man whose characteristics
were severe inspection and blatant crit
lcsm Of the affairs belonging to people
| lOI W uOll llt ildl lGSpOhSiOllAbJs anu
with the hand once Drowned and hard
ened by fishing tackle drew this por-
trait for all subsequent ages, "A busy
body In other mems matters"
That kind OF person has been a trou-
BILE maker in every country since the
world stood. Appointing himself to
the work of exploration and detection,
he goes forth mischief making He
generally begins by reporting the infe-
| licity discovered. He is the advertis-
ing agent of infrmities and domestic
inharmony and occurrences that but
! for him would never have come to the
public eye or ear. lie feels that the
secret ought to bp hauled out into light
and heralded. II he can get one line Of
ii into the npwSDapcrS that he feels to
be a noble achievement to start with.
But he must uJt let il stop. He whis-
pers II to his nrighborS. and they IN
turn whisper it TO their nrighbOrs. until
the whole town Is ahCZ2 anI agCg.
You can 10 more C'tch IL or pat IL
down than you ca" II malaria 1t is in
the air and on the wing and afOat.
Taken by itself. II srri:iS of little i'm
portance. but after Il hundred peOp.e
have handled IL and each has given ii
an additional twist il becomes story
In size and shape marvellous. II il can
be kept going. after awhile II will be
large enough to call the attention OF
the courts or the DrPsbytPreS or con
ferences or associations. The most Of
the scandals abroad are the work Of
the one whom Peter In the text styles
"a busybody In other mems matters"
Mission Of KIndness.
FIRST. notice that such Il mission Is
mCst undesirable. because we all re-
Qulre all the time we can get TO take
care of our own affairs. TO carry our
selves through the treacherous straits
Of this life demands that we all the
time keep our hand on he wheel OF
our own craft. While. as | shall show
you before | get through. we all have
Il mission Of kindness 10 others. we
have no time to waste In doing that
which is damaging to others.
There is our worldly calling. which
must be looked after or it will becOm
a failure Who succeeds in anythlI'
without concentrating all his energie
upon that one thing? All those YES
try to do many things go to piece'no
ther as to their health or their fO.s ei-
They go on until they pay 10 ceftuhe'
the dollar or pay their body i'nts on
grave. We cannot manage I'd ntO the
Of others and keep our owe aualrS
prosperous While we are,n analrS
how precarious is the bus inquirihe
other merchant and fndlness OF an
many notes he has unLlng out now
soon be will probably tpaid and now
make an assignment C1e wound up OF
IFS hammer smite hiJr hear the sher-
affairs are getting counter our own
dangered. While mixed up and en-
our neighbor for b we are criticiSing
neglecting the feJis poor crops we are
fields or allowirftilizatioH of our own
our own corn. as the weeds to choke
extract the ID While we are trying to J
eye we fall ,ote from our neighbors
beam in our under the weight OF the
turbed by own eye. Those men dis
themselves the faults Of others are
trains Of q the depot at which whole
whole tra.aults arrive and from which
who hay.ins OF faults start The men
or religie succeeded in secular things
they h &ous things will tell you thai
defcl<ave no time for hurting out tue
courfs OF others. On the way to their
tbaiting room they NAV have heard
nef q firm in the same line or 0usl'
ass was In trouble. and they said.
Sorry. verJ sorry" But they went In
and sat down at their table and open {
ed the book containing full state
ment of their affairs to see if they
were In peril Of being caught In a simi-
lar cyclone.
Gadders about town. with hands In !
pockets and hats set far back on the
head. waiting to hear baleful news.
are failures now or will be failures.
Christian men and women who go
round with mouth and looks full Of in
terrogation points to find how some
other church member Is given to ex-
aggeration or drinks too much or
neglects his home for greater outside
attractions have themselves 80 little |
grace in their hearts that no one sus-
poets they have any. In proportion as
people are consecrated and holy and |
useful they are ienient with others
and disposed to say: wait until we
hear the other side OF that matter
cannot believe that charge made |
against that man or woman until we
have some better testimony. than that
given by these scandal mongers.
guess 1t is lle."
Worlds Worst side.
Furthermore. we are incapacitated
for the supprvisal Of others because we