The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-05-24
A SATURDAY sERMoNETTE.

"Who steals my purse, steals trash;
tits something, nothing; twas mine, tits |
his, and has been slave to thousands /
But he that flches from me my good |
name, robs me Of that which not en- /
riches him. and makes me poor indeed!'
Can a man or "A woman be Chris |
tian, and circulate Islander? Mark
you, we use the word "circulate,"
not Originate" 1t has long been
admitted by enlightened society that
be or she who originates a mischiev
Gus, cruel SANDER, is more cOwardly
than a coyote, more wicked than a
murderer, more contemplate than a
thief. But how about the one who
helps to circulate it?
There are those who soothe their
conscience by circulating their "re-
grets" "Why, havn'tyou heard it?'
MOP" Il was so sorry it occurred
etc., etc. Whether they know it or
no, they are assassins of character.
People do not inHocently circulate
SANDER. If it was about one of your
own family would you repeat it? If
not, then you are either malicious or
grossly careless, or cruelty indif-
ferent to the effect of your words,
when you repeat it about another.
A small child or an idiot would re.
peat it as soon about one person as
another; and that would be limo
Gently done. But discriminating
person, who would silence their
tongue were the report about one
they love, cannot plead innocency
when they unbridle their tongue to
every mean, malicious gossip that
comes their way.
Idle gossippIng ought to be an of
tense against the criminal code.
The idea of incarcerating a chicken
thief in jail, and permitting poison
Gus tongued slanderer to roam the
streets. All the devils let loose from
the lowest whisky dive or opium
Joint in a month, can not make such
havoc among happy homes or 80
completely crush hope out of human
hearts, as can one SANDER monger-
male or female-in single day.
: A mans character or woman's
character, ought to stand as wit
l nesses in their favor. And it does
among those who value character al
: it's true worth, and who stop to think
: and try to DO unto others as they
would be done by. But among large
5 class there are those as needless of &
u mans good name-or, more priceless
5 still-even that of woman, as if /
q required not life time for its max
ing and was not thing above price
l. They take up rumors-vague, in
ef1nable, shadowy, anonymous ru
mors, and, "they wouldn't do any
u body an injustice for all the world
+ and of course they don't mean t.
l. say it's so--in fact, they really q
10 not believe it is so-but what the
l. heard was this; hadn't you heard it?
B. If you are one of these circulutor
of ISLANDERS, lay not the fatterin
II JUNCTION to your soul that you ar
10 innocent. Would you have repeate
10 it about your sister? Would 20
10 have helped circulate it about you
U brother? If not, " hen you repeat
IL concerning another, you know 20
90 are not doing as you would be don
u by, and you know you are dom
III wrong.
- These remarks are general, NJ
- special. If anybody has bee
- slandering the HERALD, or anybOd
~ connected with the HERALD, "
80 have not heard it. But,
nd "Who steals my purse, steals trasl
ga tits something, nothing; twas mine, t
his, and has been slave to thousand
," But he that tilches from me my gCC
oh name, robs me of that which not e
OF riches him, and makes me poor indeed