The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-04-11
ISLANDER FOOL
SUBJECT OF
fine SERMON
REV. EUGENE r. PENDLEToN
CACHED INTERESTINGLY
SUNDAY AT THE FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH.

The two sermons preached at the
First Baptist church on last Sunday
by Rev. Eugene R. Pendleton were of
unusual power and interest. This Sc
rfes OF sermons Is attracting consider
able interest and large congregations
are IN attendance.
Mrs. J. w. Benn. OF Saginaw. Mich,
sang at the morning service She IL
the possessor of q beautiful voice and
delighted all who heard her. Miss
Montanari sang In the evening. She
has been singing regularly for some
time and many are delighted to hear
her at each service.
The evening sermon was the fourth
OF series dealing with the fools of
the Bible, THE SANDER Fool" The
sermon In part is given:
He that uttereth Islander IN q
fool" Prov. 10:18.)
The gift of human speech n mans
divinest gift, and yet one most easily
prostituted, and the tongue has ragged
like fire through nature causing wars
and bloodshed, and heart-aches, aud
murders. and orphans and widows,
being set on FIRE Of hell. verilyi There
is no way In which the foolish heart
can more readily reveal itself than in
foolish talking. This was so much
true In less civilized times that in all
codes Of conduct sound speech was a
cardinal virtue. The pattern Old Tes-
lament saint was he that slandereth
not with his tongue. nor taketh mp \
reproach against his neighbor."
Slander is an evil report Of another,
| falsely or maliciously uttered tendin g
to injure his reputation and business
among his fellow-men, according to
Webster. The Hebrew word Is some
what more comprehensive and means
all kinds Of evil reports, true or untrue.
The Georgia court Of appeals in Dub
lin case, handed down a decision that
one cannot repeat rumors concerning
another and plead that he heard them.
'Tale-bearers are as bad as tale-mak-
ers. Each representation Is a fresh
defamation, and the defendant by re-
peating AS words to B has made them
his own and is as legally liable as II he
had invented the story"
He has no more right to rob one of
good name than to pick his pocket.
Some people may be able to live
above the fog Of other mems opinions
of them, but the most Of people are
dependent absolutely upon what other
people think about them. To fitch tn.
good name of a fellow being is worse
than to steal his money.
He who steals my purse, steals trash,
IT'S something, nothing; twas mine,
tits his,
And has been slave to thousands,
But he who robs me ofumy good name.
Steals that which not enriches him,
But makes me poor indeed"
There is a more excellent way. !
like the story of the mayor and his
chief Of police in a certain big city
who were personally at outs and did
not even speak, but annually the mayor
appointed him because he was the best
man for the place. Magnanimous con-
duct is so much wiser. AS a group
stood around a newly made grave in
silence because the deceased comrade
had no good name, one finally in E.
moment of desperation for something
to say, broke the silence with, We'll,
Bill was always a splendid whistler"
A newspaper has to be careful not
to print anything which reflects upon
any member Of society. It Is a prac-
tice outlawed in all civilized lands, and
our constitution says that a man shall
be protected In the enjoyment Of '1ifa.
liberty and property" His happiness
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from calumny that there are specific
statutes prescribing what is lawful TO
say about another. It is a law difficult
to enforce because most rumors, like
blind tigers, begin with irresponsible
persons, and it is hard to run down a
they say"
There is so much good in the worst
of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it does not become the most OF US
To talk about the rest of u.s."
The slanderer is a fool because his
evil tongue only reflects his own COR
rupt heart.
This is one of the things we have
! learned, that Ito him that is pure all
things are pure, and to him that is i'm
pure nothing is pure"
Often the ISLANDERS in a given town
can be traced to certain moral buzzards
just as disease can be traced to on
barrel of garbage.
Love thinketh no evil, but believett
all things. The undetermined do not
think evil Of others. knew the case
of a deacon in a church charged with
a grave crime. His senior deacon who
had worked with him for years a godly
man, refused to believe it. and while
! every tongue was speaking of his gull
the older man stoutly held to the in
nocence Of the accused. When the tria
, took place and day by day the evidence
!, Of guilt grew stronger, still he held hi
: peace and when the verdict came
guilty and It was carried to old mar
BIaIoclx, he only broke down and weps
ISLANDER, that worst of poisons, evel
finds
An easy entrance to fgnoble minds
:. A good man sees noble traits in tn.
n vagabond. Jesus saw saint in tn;
| sinful Magdalen. The slanderer is OF
ten only q common liar, and VIII b
found out. He can fool all Of the PEG
r pie some of the time, and some of tn,