Milford chronicle., 1905-08-25
The Nenomnns Cohrn.

The EenOmOus Cobra
MY friend, / sympathZe with you in
that persecution. You say you do not
bear your prosecutors any i'll will, for
you have triumphed over their attacks.
But as you We're once prosecuted as u
young man, now as a well established
merchant or lawyer or doctor or mir
lister or wife or mother be careful that
you are not yourself using one of those
! poisonous and vindictive tongues. l
once read of venOmOus cobra Of In
dia having been decapitated. As the
people were standing around looking
/ at the headlcss snake native reached
forth his bare foot and struck the head.
No sooner did his foot touch the opened
mouth of the snake than, by mus
cular contraction, the poisonous fangs
pierced the bare foot, and in one hour
the man was dead. Has not the poison
GUS fang of hate of that Old enemy Of
yours, many years dead, entered into
your life? Why did you make that
mean remark about that young doctor
or lawyer or minister or merchant the
other day? Why did you slur that
young mans character who Is trying
so hard to earn a livelihood for his
widowed mother or younger brOtherP
As others in the pest have buried their
poisonous fangs Of hateful jealousy in
your heart are you trying to destroy
others who seem to come between you
and your success2 Men, beware bow
you try to destroy your supposed III
valsi Women, beware how you attack
that young womant Her good name
is her life. Hate not Despise not
Others have wrUnged you with a vim
dictive tongue. Do not retahate, do
not use the same weapons.
But as l begin to anaIyze the poison
of the evil tongue I find that it is COM
posed Of many different sinful basic
elements. Water, for instance, IS com
posed Of a gas called hydrogen, and
another gas called oxygen. Chemical
", the definition Of water is H20.
Sodium sulphate is composed Of three
different basic elements Its compo-
nent parts are sodium, sulphur and
oxygen. Chemically, it is written
Nap, SO4. Now, as I analyZe in Gods
great laboratory the. poison Of the
"evil tongue" l find it. first, composed
of the element Of hate, and, secondly,
Of the element of faIsehood. All
through the Bible, the Cleceitful tongue
is condemned by GOd. The lying
tongue Of man should be condemned
by man. Yet today there are many
professional men and many merchants
building up their practices or bust
nesses upon a tissue OF lies.
A Professional FalsehOol-
A professional falsehoOd came direct
" under my observation, when, many
years ago was preaching in an east
ern city. One of my church officers
was taken down with lung trouble and |
had to go to Arizona to live. While 1
there, his little daughter became very |
sick with heart trouble. The mother /
brought her back home. The father |
telegraphed me to look after them. I
at once went to my family physician,
one of the most eminent in the state, I
and had him examine the child. He !
looked the little girl carefully over,
and this was his diagnosis: 'She has |
yalvular trouble OF the heart in its /
most fatal form. She may live year, |
but in all probability she win die in |
about six months. Within a few weeks |
dropsy will set in, then she will have |
to be tapped. The best thing you can
do is to make her as comfortable as
possible, for she cannot get we'll" l /
wrote to the father the result. At /
once he came home and sent for an
other doctor. This other physician
came in and said, Il can cure her if |
you will give me full charge of the /
case" That physician knew he could |
not cure her. Death had written its |
fatal mark all over that child. but be- /
cause that other physician said he I
could cure the child the new doctor
became the attending physician. He +
called twice a day for six months. The
child grew worse and worse, just as