The evening Republican., 1902-07-09

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1t is at the old plug whose ribs we
are able to count, whose harness IS
tied together with strings. whose
feet in the winter time when snow
is on the ground ar. wrapped around
with coarse bags to save the black.
smith $ bill fer rough shoeng, that
causes us to hold our sides in laugh.
ter. But that which eliCited the
laugh and caused the joke was the
picture Of impelfection. Sin is ab.
normaity. 1t is being more or less
than Il man ought to Ee. All mper-
fcction in the world is the result di-
rect or indre ect Of sin. When there
fore We crack a joke about some
thing God has made we do 30 be-
cause sin has made 1t possible for us
10 see the joke, and gives US capacity
for its Enjoyment. Scandal and san
( der and biasphemy are garru'ous'
ness, and when this is SO they each
and all are Sin.
A sin, because such garrulols1css
Often estrangcs husband and wife.
lie who puts asunder what God
hath joined together is doing exactly
what God has forbidden. 1t is u sin
because it is the creator Of Church
| fuses. The man who enters the
| domestic circle and makes trouble is
! inferior in devllishness only to the
man who enters the house CT God
bent or mischief. The most sacred
nlI hnc In
must be left untouched by the garru.
| lous fool. Garrulousness Is Il sin
because it is directly forbidden by
the ninth commandment. No man
guilty Of this sin, ever content him.
self with talking well of people. lie
who talks so very much must find
subjects III his neighbors And he is
! usually a liar by accident or deiiber.
ately. II he repeats the rumorsd lie
that some other liar has told him, two
liars are born the moment his two
lips are blistcred with the story.
And when this is done, the decaoge
is broken by their plotting. 10 bear
false witness against ones nelghbor is
garuluuSness-and sin,
The secret of garrulousnes, is. in
the last analysis, Vanity. A man
wishes to be considered the fount OF
wisdom. wishes to be known as the
man of the community who may be
consulted on all topics foreign, do
meslic, possible, impossible, human,
divine, earthly aud ethe,eal. and So
he talks, unit. his vanity is graft
fed by reading scme morning under
the head of "Personal FLncies 'If
YOU want to know anything consult
Mr.. r.---' lie 10 at this well pleased .
and satisfied, but he Is u tool.
Jealousy is another cause Of gar
rulousness. A man talks about
another either because he wishes
other men TO talk about him, or
because he is ealous Of his brother.
Angried at the good name of his
nelghbor, he seeks TO defame that
good name. for no other reason than
that he himself has it not.
Perhaps we may be easier on the
Garrulous fool and say that much
of his idle talk is founded in thought
lessness. Let us all confess it, we
are equally guilty. No man, preach
ers included, but talks too much.
We do not stop to think that the
man to whom we speak in conf
dence, has a perfect right to speak
to other men in the same confident
hope that we will respect his conf
dence. All such expressions as
sub rosa Inter nos don't tell
anybody are to be tabooed from
the vocabulary of him who doesn't
wish to be considered garrulous
fool. Tell me nothing you do not
wish me to repeat, for | cannot
promise to keep a secret, In a mo-
ment OF thOughtlessness | may di-
vulge your secret and you and will
both be sorry.
There is a cure for Garrulousness,
1t is Il very simple cure. Try this:
For one whole week say some
thing good Of every man, of whom
you speak at all, in conversation 10 |
another. DO not stop your conver- |
satiOn, change it. Do not talk less talk |
better There lives no man in this
world of whom something good may
not be said Search in the garden
Of every mans life for some fertile |
spot, (and you will be sure to find
one, and when you do cultivate
that spot No life SO barren in
which there flourishes not some rose
of kindness or charity or beauty.
Search for the rose bush, but do
not gather a bunch of ,horns from
it for the sick people of this world.
Consider the practical advantange
of praticed reticence on ones own
nature. He who does not tell the
whole story at a single sitting is the
man Of whom people will say: lie
has reserved power. And this in
turn will react on his own life un-
til he grows both wise and mighty
Reserved power is the test of power
Not how much a man does, but
how much more can he do, is the
test of the man. The babblng brook
noisy expresses itself as it rushes
over its tiny bed, but the babbling
brook could never float a ship It !
lacks depth. Deep truth like deep
waters is often stillest, and deep
men are never garrulous men.
Think of the blessing of language
What if you could not speak at all?
Picture to yourself some silent soul,
made silent by paralyzed tongue,
or driven into mlltenesS bv some
freak of nature or some heavy sick
ness. Do there not stand out in
your memory at this moment some
sentences that have been epochal in
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