Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-22
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GOSSIP RAPED
BY DR.. MARTIN
Listeners as Bad as Repeat
ers." Says Minister, Regard
ing DR.. Barker's Case.

The person VINO listens 10 scandal
is as bad and worse than the person
who tells it. Rev. Dr. Daniel Hon-
man Martin. OF New York. told the
members Of the congregation Of
Christ Reformed Church last night.
DR.. Martin is a former NeWarker.
having been pastor Of the Clinton
Avenue Reformed Church for
eighteen years during which time 1e
received 40 new members. He -
now pastor Of the Fort Washington
Presbyterian Church, New York. He
and Rev. Percival H. Barker, If
| Christ Reformed Churcn, exchanged
pulpits yesterday.
The local church was thronged 10
hear DIT. Martin, many Of his former
Newark parishioners being preser.
Dr. Martin said in opening his
discourse that the exchange of pull
pits had been arranged at his request
| andi stated that he thought that
the sermon of Rev. Mr.. Barker would
be the source of a great blessing TO
his congregation. He declared that
Rev. Mr. Barker had many friends
on the other side Of the river and
said that former Congressman VIII
liam S. Bennett, who had defended
Rev Mr. Barker at Chicago, was an
elder in his church He stated that
he was present the other day at o
gathering of a large circle of distin-
guished Presbyterian ministers in
/ New York when the Barker case was
/ informally discussed and there was
not a single adverse criticism of the
action of the judicial commission in
Chicago in deciding that the charges
I against Rev Mr.. Barker were not
4 substantiated.
/ Text from Nehemiah.
1 The text taken from the sixth
chapter Of Nehemiah. sixth verse: 1T
is reported and Goshen saith it. He
said:
/ THE aggressive worker is always
subject to criticism. Nehemiah was
/ the man of the hour. and he said 10
/ his people all you need is a little
courage and a good deal more faith
in the God of your fathers.
1T is reported and who started the
! report? Oh, Goshen said it. And
who is Goshen? He is only a liar
Who told Goshen? Nobody. Now
that is a picture of all the gossip in
the world. 1t is reported, but the
report is always a story made up by
foolish people, and then to give it
I
tached to it as if to give it more
truth.
Were you ever stung by a beey
There is always this satisfaction 10
me when ] get stung by a bee.
] know he has got through and is out
| of business. That singer will not
do any more harm. Gossip has as
many singers as a porcupine has
quilts. That is why you cannot ex-
terminate it. You can never do it
by force, and you can never get the
gossip to give up her calling. II
| Goshen happens 10 be here tonight.
he viii not take any Of this TO him
self Why Because he has been N
the business too long. He puts fr-
titious construction on everything
you do.
"a good way to stamp out this
curse gossip is not to condemn On
slight grounds of superficial inforna-
ton and never to condemn on mere
comes along and says It is reported.
relegate him to the limbo of the pee
pie who are not to be trusted
In continuing his reference 10 he'll
he said; But there is such a place,
built out of the necessity of penalty
for depravity, the memorable law OF
separation which goes on ali through
nature and grace. What beasIiy
time in those lower regions the
gossips and slanderers will have be-
cause there will be no fair reputa-
tons to tarnish. No good name to
besmirch No occasion to fabricate
lies. No neighbors TO gossip about
but themselves, and the worst things
they can say about each other viii be
true. Eternal carnival of mud sling
ers Glorious Jubilee Of backbiters,
Grand convention of scandalmongers.
Bottomless PIT of diabolieal gabblersi
And over the portals of this place OF
the abandoned in letters of lurid
flame will flash the words 1t is re-
ported and Goshen saith that il Is
very hot down here and for just once
in his life Goshen tells the truth.