The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-03
FaE EVILS OF GOSSIP
TO Those Who Are Dis
TO Talk Too Much.
DR.. Talmage on the Text
Not n Secret to An
p",..r-Good and Bad Sc
cret Societies.
..,, 1901. by Louis Klopsch, N. "
p"Ne Washington,

~, 1901. by Louis Klopsch. N. ~
Cp""e Washington.
ootical question which is asked
APT houses, and for many years.
% SrS asked by DR.. Talmage and
nei mad. text, Proverbs 1850, Dis
(ns'r not a secret to another"
, : appears that in solomon's time,
~ 'P afI subsequent periods of the
there we're people too much
on a'od to tell all they knew. 1t
sp' blab. blab, blab; physicians re-
l,ar the Ease of their patients,
1arars exposing the private affairs
iN.!sair clients; neighbors advertis-
,he faults of the next-door resi-
pretended friends betraying
n"abalf of the trouble of every
"munitv m from the fact that
mony people have not capacity to
t'.n their mouths shut. When l hear
smstbing disparaging of you, my
~, duty is not to. tell you, but if I
III rou what somebody has said
Er.inst you and then go out and
Is theirs what 1 told them that I
IA Won. and we all go out, some to
E.nt nm the originator of the story
Ia otbers to hunt it down, we shall
-, tbe whole community talking
.hout what you did do and what you
|sd not do, and there will be as many
s..Ins taken as though a band of
vodocs had swept upon a helpless
r1laCe. We have two ears, but only
,ne tonrue, a physiological sugges-
,ion that we ought to hear a good
asol more than we tell. Let us join
, conspiracy that we will tell each
o,her all the good and nothing of the
m and then there will not be such
awful need of sermons on Solomon's
uords. Discover not a secret to
mother
solomon had a very large domestic
circle. In his earlier days he had
very confused notions about monog-
amy and polygamy. and his multi
,%udinous associates in the matri-
mopial state kept him too well in
formed as to what was going on in
jerusalem. They gathered up all the
mivacies and poured them into his
ear. and his family became a sorosis
or female debating society of 700,
discussing day after day all the diff
clties between husbands and wives,
between employers and employees,
between ruler and subjects, until
Solomon, in my text, deplores volu-
blity about affairs that do not be-
long to us and extols the virtue of
forgiveness.
By the power of a secret divulged
hmilies, churches, neighborhoods,
nations, fly apart. By the power OF
secret kept great charities, social
tiles, reformatory movements and
Christian enterprises may be adj
unced. Men are gregarious-catt1e
in herds, fish in schools, birds in
fOcks, men in social circles. You
may by the discharge of a gun scat.
ter a flock of quails or by the plunge
Of the anchor send apart the deni.
lens Of the sea, but they will gather
themselves together again. If you
by some new power could break the
associations in which men now stand
they would again adhere. Goo
meant it so. He has gathered all the
flowers and shrubs into associations
You may plant one forgetmenot oil
heartsease alone, away off upon tn,
hillside, but it will soon hunt NJ
some other forgetmenot or hearts
ease. Plants love company. Yo,
will find them talking to each othel
In the dew.
You sometimes see a man with n,
outbranchings of sympathy. His ma
ture is cold and hard, like a ship,
mast ice glazed, which the most agil,
sailor could V climb. Other
nave a thousand roots and a thou
sand branches. Innumerable tendril
climb their hearts and blossom al
the way up, and the fowls of HEAVIER
sing IN the branches. In consequence
Oh this tendency we find men comm.
together in tribes, in communities. il
churches, in societies. Some gathe
together to cultivate the arts, som
10 plan for the welfare of the state
some TO discuss religious themes
some to kindle their mirth, some t
advance their craft. So every activ
community is divided into associa
uons OF artists, Of merchants, @
Oookolnders, of carpenters, O
masons, of plasterers, of shipwright.
OF plumbers. Do you cry out agains
w Then you cry out against a ter
uency divinely implanted. You
trades would accomplish no NOR
'nah II you should preach to a bus
ant hill a long sermon against Sc
eret societies.
mere we find the oft discusse
question whether associations tina
10 their work with closed doors an
aunt their members by password
anu greet each other with a secre
eIlP are right or wrong. 1 answe
.nat 1t depends entirely on the ns
lure OF the object for which the
meet Is it to pass the hours j
every wassail, blasphemy and oil
scene talk or to plot trouble to tn
..a'e or to debauch the innocen
then l say, with an empha sic that n