The Dolores star., 1905-04-14
Watch Them.

Watch who? All gossips. ! am not
personal in what ] say. II tho shoe
does not nj, do not wear 1t. We have
had soIne strange things lately in Colo
RADIO in the Legislature halls, and the
tongue ran many ways In many things.
am a new plant in the State, as a
minister and desire to continue to grow
straight, therefore, ! ami not politi-
clan. nor religious buffet. As an
humble citizen 1 maintain that the
laws governing should be the express
ed will Of the people, legislated as di-
rccted by the hallot-voice of the people,
And when this Is not the case the pow.
er by which the people are governed is
proven to lie nendacity. I live In
the town where ''honest John Harris
resides--as The Durango Democrat
calls him, and so he has proven HIM
self TO be.
write because OF disrespeotful
comment made about a lady by one
from whom the public expected better
things, and thought, am l in the
presence Of a gossip? A position not
at all enviable. Some Christians ruin
there influence by an improper use of
their tongue. Spiritual royalty belongs
to the children of God, and princes
should refrain from tattling, the scrip
lures tell of those, "who learn to be
idle, wondering from house to house,
a ox,Ix tlta I'M ata nd
busy bodies, speaking things which
they ought not" do you know any
good thing about n gossip? Tattlipg is
an appeal made to prejudice in pur-
pose to mislead. 1t is not confined to
women, some women talk too much
without Intending to become tattlers.
But tattling man; %, my; He gener-
ally has some bus ness to promote, and
he tries TO prevaricate the edge from
some other AK in hope of sharpening
his own. Gossiping is an evil that has
not one redeeming thing to commend
it. 1t is worse than malarial poison in
the atmosphere of village, town or conf
muBity. 1t is an evil without a re-
deemiDg quality. 1t is q carbuncle on
common decency, II is stencil in the
nostrils of Christianity, ills an attempt
to thrust lance into the culture of
humanity, 1t Is an enemy OF chastity, a
stranger to honesty, q bold back strap
upon all noble aspirations, it is false
faced disciple of satan, and the persona
fication of lying. Search through the
history of 2 man gossip and not one
page can be found over which he can
bow his head and thank God for the
little life he is living. He writes his
own history, and dips his pen in the
tears of INNOCENT men and women,
whose honor he has tried to blacken
with shame and disgrace. Who am l
describing? The man gossip, the car
rion crow Of the highway, the skunk OF
the community. Touch him and the
air Is at once poisoned with the corrod-
ing influence of his breath. Ministers
are guilty when they turn from teach
ing the gospel in II suasiye way to win
Others to christian rectitude. Abuse
and criticism is not argument. The
great truths that inspire men to adopt
higher moral lives are more familiar
with tones of love, which Is peculiarly
adapted to awaken the soul to repen'
tance and faith in the worlds Redeem,
er. Some big hearted men are engaged
in business that is ruin0us to better
manhood. Such men can only be won
by love, since abuse will not win them
the difference in the teaching is easily
seen, one has in it degradation, the
other improvement. Let us be wise
and follow the plan on which success
depends.
RALEIGH II. WHITE.
Dolores, April, 1905.