Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-08-17
THE EVILS OF GOSSIP
A Sermon to Those Who Are Dis
posed to Talk Too Much.
Discourse OF Dr. rstrage On the Fext
~Di.ceeer Not secret 60 &"-
other"-Good and Had Sc
cret societies.
tcpoyright. 1901, by Louis Kiopsch. -. II
NEa.hfpcton Iuly -


A practical question which is asked
in most houses, and for many years,
is here asked by DR.. Talmage and
answered: text. Proverbs $3.50, DIS
cover not secret to-another.
IL appears that in SolomOn's time.
as In all subsequent periods OF the
world. there were people too much
disposed to tell all they knew. IL
was blab. blab. blab; physicians re-
vealing the case OF their patients
LAWYERS exposing the private affairs
of their clients; ncighbors advertis-
| ing the faults Of the neNt-door resi-
| dent: pretended friends betraying |
condolences.
One-half OF the trouble OF every |
community comes from the fact mat
so many people have not capacity Z"
| keep their mouths shut. When near
something disparRging OF yon' my
first duty Is not 60 tell you. but II
tell YOU what somebody has said
against you and then go out ana
tell others what l told them that
told YOU. and we nn go out, some 10
hunt MP the originator Of the story
and others 20 hunt IL down, we shan
get the whole community talking
about what you did do and what you
did not do. and there will DC as many
scalps taken as though band OF
/ I Modocs had swept upon n helpless
, | VILLAGE. We have two ears. but only
one tongue, n physiological sugseS-
, ,.on. that we ought 20 hear good
deal more than We tell. Let US join
conspiracy that we viii tell cach
other au the good and nothing OF the
an and then there will not be such
awful need of sermons on solomon =
words. Discover not secret 10
another"
Solomon had very large domestic
circle In his earlier days he hao
= very confused notions about monog
amy and polygamy. and his multi
t.dInous associates in the matri
N monial state kept him too well IN
II formed a. % what va. going on u
Jerusalem They gather "a up all tn
privacies and poured them into hi
p car. and his family became sorosi
or female debating society OF 90.
Discussing day after day all the ON
cultfcs between husbands and wlFc'
., between employers and employs
'" between ruler and subjects, unit
~ solomon. in my text, deplores vol'
u, bility about effairs that do not 10
l, long 70 ia and extols the virtue
secretivcness.
- BY the power Of secret divnlgs
" families. churches, neighborhood
'"' nations. Gy apart. BY the power
a secret kept great charities, socif
a., titles, reformatOry movements al
% Christian enterprises may be
'nu vanced. Men are gregavious-cat'
u. In herds, fsh in schools. birds
VA" aocks. men in social circles. \
NAV by the discharge OF "A gun Sc
REQ ter flock OF quails or by the plum
len. OF tho anchor send apart the de
inc zens of the sea, but they will gath
mat themselves together again. II y
his by some new power could break {
associations IA which men now star
they would again adhere. q
meant AZ 40. He has gathered oil
flowers and shrubs into associauo
% You may plant one forgetmenot
henrtsease alone. away of upon
hillside. but il VIII soon hunt
some other forgetmenot or heal
pei'' ease. Plants love company
""s will End them talking TO each OF
80, in the dew.
You sometimes SEE a man with
outbranchings Of sympathy His
ture 5 cold and hard, like n sh
- mast ice glazed. which the most a
sailor could never climb Oti
" have n thousand roots and a
'le sand branches. Innumerabie tend
-Esr~ climb their hearts and blossom
- the way up, and the fowls OF he's
- sing in the branches. In cOnsequ'
OF this tendency we find men cor
together in tribes. in communftie
churches. IN societies. Some ga
E together 90 cultivate the arts, S
TO plan for the welfare Of the p
"a some 20 discuss religious the
~ some 10 kindle their mirth. som
use IS advance their craft. So every a
ETY. BE community IS divided into ass
nth. lions of artists. OF merchants
are bookbinders. Of carpenters,
sfh masons, OF plasterers. of shipwri
Of plumbers. DO yon cry out ag
-. sk it2 Then you cry out against =
.ant az dency divinely implanted.
Ard 81 TRADES would accomplish no
e itHs than II you should preach TO
ant hill a long sermon agains
vEkE cret societics.
tHHk Here we find the oft disc
tEkh question whether associations
NEk do thei~ work with closed door
ID admit their members by pass'
hNs ~ and greet each other with
nsf grip are right or wrong i a.
g.. 81 that IL depends entirely on III
= 800 ture of the object for which
~ meet. il il TO pass the hour