Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-08-26

my family physician said she would.
Then, she died. as he had predicted.
But on account of that false hope
which the other physician held out he
was able to get the patient and to Sc
cure the fee
In business as well as in professional
life men are guilty Of "the lying
tongue" They lie about land they
want to sell; they lie about houses they
want to rent; they lie about their stock;
they lie about their furniture stores;
they lie about their horses; they lie
about everything they desire to get rid
Of. They keep on lying in business
way, Just as though King Solomon had
never hurled his condemnation against
business lies when he wrote these ter
rlble words: "The getting Of treasures
by lying tongue is vanity tossed to
and fro of them that seek death. The
robbing Of the wicked shall destroy
them because they refuse to do judg-
ment." o God, deliver us today from
being merchants who are perjurers or
lawyers who are deceiyers or physi-
clans who are falsifiers or men trying
to sell their goods by deceiying their
fellow men. o God, deliver us from
the falsifier's doom. For without are
dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers
and murderers and idolaters and who
soever loveth and maketh lie."
But the evil tongue Of man is also
vile tongue Vile in the sense that 1t Is
filled with all uncleanness. Vile be-
cause the lewd, the corrupt the filthy,
the defiled, the debased, the impure,
the coarse, is often the type Of the
language in which 1t glories. Vile in
the sense that the stories and the COM
munications it speaks are often unfit
for respectable ears. Yet its corrupt
conversations are not only heard In the
notorious places Of evil resort, but they
are also heard in the street and in so
called respectable homes and among
so called ladies as well as so called
gentlemen.
| Ine wrong Ok
walk down the street There see
a lot Of schoolboys gathered together.
Suddenly a great guffaw Of laughter
is raised. What are you laugh
ing at, boysT ooh, at story"
"What is the story?' 1--WE cannot
tell you. You are minister and
would not be willing to hear It."
I 90 to the mems club, and there l
find that the risque joke is often the
one most appreciated. | go to the
theater, and there find that the filthy
lnsinuation Is the one most uproar-
Iously encored. l go into the home,
and there at many firesides the sug-
gestive story is the one that finds the
most attentive listeners. This should
not be; this must not be. The same
words which Paul wrote to the Ephe-
SLAMS he is now speaking to us, Let
no corrupt communication proceed out
of your mouth" That means, as AL
bert Barnes once said, abstain from
corrupt and polluting conversation"
AS a young woman or a young man,
as a middle aged woman or q middle
aged man, as an old woman or an old
man, do not say anything you would
not be willing for the ears or your
pure Christian mother to hear.
But the vindictiye tongue and the
lying tongue and the vile tongue is
also the blasphemous tongue. When
the man of one talent in the Bible
went and hid his talent in the earth
he Immediately commenced to put the
responsibility on God. When you and
do wrong and continue to do wrong,
at once our evil tongues begin to find
fault with the God who created us,
and with the Christ who wants to re-
deem us. One Of the worst signs that
your tongue is an evil tongue is when
il begins to talk about God as a cruel
God, a .merciIess God, mean God and
n heartless God. The yindictlve
tongue. the lying tongue, the lewd
tongue. almost inevitably becomes the
blasphemous tongue.
You cannot have a corrupt tongue
without in the end having blasphe
nous tongue. A gentleman some years
ago was riding on the Erie railroad
and lust before the train passed over
the bridge which spans the Hacken
sack river he saw a large sign painted
by the track for the railroad engineers
II read thus: "Shut You Ash Pan" The
gentleman wondered what that sigr
, meant Then he asked the reason, and
this was the reply: when the tran
crosses the river some of the live coal;
might fall out of the engine and lanC
. on the wooden ties and burn up the
, | wooden bridge" Oh, yes, l said K
myself when | read that story, 1t Il
, we'll that the engineer should be care
, | ful of the live Goals of his ash pan
Int how much more should man b'
careful of the live Goals of his tongue
"The tongue is fire" Once let tn'
live Goals of the vindictiye and the ~
, inc tongue and the lewd tongue scatter
and they will fall down and burn VI
/, the work that proceeds from Christi
, | cross. They will scatter and burn VI
, | Christ's church and Christs Bible an(
, mans immortal hope. Blasphemy Il
= the natural outcome Of mans tongu'
> poisoned with evil in his dealings witt
I man.
Depraved Tongue.
But l cannot close this line of m.
. talk without declaring that the bias
phemous tongue inevitably becomes tn
. tongue of human beast of carrion
9 AS soon as man gets out Of touch Wit
God he inevitably acquires a deprave'
, idea Of the human race. Like the buz
q zard which circles about in the heaV
o ems over the hills and the valleys ant
D the prairies of southern California wall
q ing for the horse or the COW or tn
I sheep to drop dead in his tracks tina
t he may pounce upon it, so the evl