Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-08-26

Then she dlcd, as lie nad predicted.
But on account OF that false hope
which the other physician held out he
was able 10 get the patient and TO se-
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 IL 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 deccivers or physi-
clans who are falslters or men trying
TO sell their goods by dcceiying their
fellow men. o God, deliver us from
the falsificr's doom. For without are
dogs and sorccrers and whoremongers
and murlcrcrs and idolaters and who
soevcr lovctb and maketh lie"
But the evil tongue OF man is also
vile tongue. Vile In the sense that 1t IL
filed with all uncleanness. Vile be-
cause the lcwd, the corrupt. the filthy.
the defiled. the dcbased. the impure,
the coarse. IL often the type OF the
language In which II glorics Vile in
the sense that the stories and the COM
munications II 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 Indies as well as so called
gentlemen.
The Wrong Kind of story.
l walk down the street. There | see
a lot OF schoolboys gathered together.
Suddenly great guifaw OF laughter
is raised. What are you laugh
ing at. boysg" "Oh. at story"
What is the story" I'VE cannot
tell you. You are minister and
would not be willing TO hear It."
I 20 TO the mems club. and there
find that the risIue joke is often the
one most appreciated. go 10 the
theatcr. and there find that the filthy
insinnation is the one most uproar-
iously encorcd. go into the home.
and there mt many iircsides the sug-
gestive story IL 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 IL now speaking to us. Let
no corrupt communication proceed out
OF your mouth" That means. MS AL
bert Barnes once said, abstain from
corrupt and polluting conversation"
as u middle aged woman or middle
aged man. rs an old woman or an old
man. do not say anything you would
not he willing for the ears Of your
pure Christian mother TO hear.
But the vindictive tongue and the
lying tongue AMI 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
l do wrong and continue To do wrong.
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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. mcrciless God. n mean God and
tongue. the lying tongue. the lewd
tongue. almost inevitably becomes the
blasphemous tongue.
You cannot have corrupt tongue
without In the end having blasphe-
nous tongue 4 gentleman some years
ago was riding on the Erie railroad.
and Just before the train passed over
the bridge which spans the Hacken-
sack river he saw II large sign painted
by the track for the railroad engineers.
II read thus: shut You Ash Pan" The
gentleman wondered what that sign
meant. Then he asked the reason. and
this was the reply: When the train
crosses the river some OF the live Goals
might fall out OF the engine and land
ON the wooden ties and burn up the
wooden bridge" Oh. yes. | said to
myself when I read that story. II Is
well that the engineer should be care
full OF the live Goals OF his ash pan.
but how much more should man be
careful Of the live Goals OF his tongue.
1.-THE tongue Is fire." Once let the
live Goals Of the vindictive and the ly-
Ing tongue and the lewd tongue scatter
and they will fall down and burn up
the work that proceeds from Christ's
cross They will scatter and burn up
Christ's church and Christ's Bible and
mans immortal hope Blasphemy Is
the natural outcome OF mans tongue
poisoned with evil In his dealings with
man.
4 Dcpraved Tongue.
But I cannot close this line OF nv