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I "WHISPERED VENOM. THE VOICE OF THE GOSSIP UKE THE SERPENT'S HISS. Dr. TIme .8y tbe Purveyor off Idle Tale I tlie Polioaer off Socie ty A Stronar ArravlsnmeiU of Idar nd Tattlers. Copyright, Louis Eopscfi, 1890. Washington, July 2.-In this dis course Dr. Talmage vigorously arraigns one of the great evils that hare cursed the world and urges generous Interpre tation of the character of others; text, 1 omans U 29, "Full of envy, murder, :j debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers." Paul was here calling the long roll of the world's villainy, and be puts In the jnidst of this roll those persons known In all cities and communities and places as whisperers. They are so call ed because they generally speak under voice and In a confidential way, their "hand to the side of their mouth acting as a funnel to keep the precious Infor mation from wandering Into the wrOng ear. They speak- softly not because they have lack of lung force or because they are overpowered with the spirit . of gentleness, but because they want to escape the consequences of defama tion. If no one hears but the person whispered anto, and the offender be ar raigned, he can deny the whole thing, lor whisperers are always first class liars! -Some people whisper because they are hoarse from a cold e because they wish to convey some useful: Informa tion without disturbing others, but the creatures photographed by the apostle In my text give muffled jjtterance from sinister and depraved motive, and sometimes you can only hear the sibi lant sound as the letter -3" drops from the tongue Into the listening ear, the . brief hiss of the serpent as it projects Its venom. t Whisperers are masculine and femi nine, with:a tendency to majority on the side of those who ace called "the lords of creation." Whisperers are , heard at every window of bank cash ier and are heard In all counting rooms as well as In sewing societies and at meetings of asylum directors and managers. They are the worst foes of society, responsible, for miseries innumerable; they are the scavengers of the world, driving their cart through every community, and today I holcTup Tor your holy anathema and execration these whisperers. ' Panl a Victim. -Prom the frequency with which Paul speaks of them under different titles I conclude that lie must have suffered somewhat, from them. His personal presence was -very defective, and that made him, perhaps, the target of their ridicule. And, besides that, he was a bachelor, persisting 7 In his celibacy down 4nto the sixties. Indeed all the way through, and, some having failed ,ln their connubial designs upon him, the little missionary was put under the Taking fire of these "whisperers. He "was jno doubt a rare morsel for their scan idallzation, and he cannot keep his (patience any longer, and he lays hold of these miscreants of the tongue and jgives them a very hard setting down 'In my text among the scoundrelly and the murderous. VEnvy, murder, de bate, deceit, malignity; whisperers." : The law of libel makes quick and stout grip of open slander. If I should in a plain way, calling you by name, charge you with fraud or theft or mur der or uncleanness, tomorrow morning-1 might have peremptory docu ments served on me, and I would have to pay in dollars and cents for the damage I had done your character. But these creatures spoken of In my text are so small that they escape the fine tooth comb "of the law. They go on, and they ga on. escaping the judges and the' juries and the penitentiaries. The district attorney cannot find them, the sheriff cannot find them, the igrand Jury cannot find them. Shut them off from one routfrof perfidy and they start on another. You cannot by the force of moral sentiment persuade them to desist. ! You might as well xeadthe TenJommandments to a flock of crows, expecting them to retreat un der the force of moral sentiment. They are to be found everywhere, these whisperers. I think their paradise is a country village of about 1,000 or 2,000 people, where everybody knows every body. But they also are to be found in large quantities In all our cities. They have a prying disposition. They look Into the basement windows at the tables of their neighbors and can tell Just what they have morning and night to eat. They can see as far through a keyhole as other people can see with a door wide open. They can hear con versation on the opposite side of the room. Indeed, the world to them is a whispering gallery. They always put the worst construction on everything, A Fiendish Spirit. Some morning a wife descends Into .the 'street, her eyes damp with tears, and that Is a stimulus to the tattler and Is enough to set up a business for three or four weeks. "1 guess that hus band and wife don't live happily to-' gether.: I wonder if he hasn't been abusing her? It's outrageous. He ought to be disciplined. lie ought to bo brought up before the church. I'll go right over to my neighbors and I'll let them know about this matter." She rushes In all out of breath to a neigh bor's house and says: "Oh, Mrs. Allear. have you heard the dreadful news? sWhy. our neighbor, poor thing, came down off the steps In a flood of tears. That brute of a husband has been abusing her. Well, It's just as I ex pected. I saw him the other afternoon jrery smiling and very gracious to some one who smiled back, and I thought then I would Just go up to blm and ten him he had better go home and look after bis wife and family, who probably at that very time were up stairs crying their eyes out. Oh, Mrs. Allear,' do hare your husband go over ftnrt nnt an. end to this trouble, It's simply outrageous that our neighbor hood should be disturbed In this way. It's awful- The fact is that one man or 'woman set on fire of this hellish spirit will keen a whole neighborhood a-boIL It does not require any very great brain. The chief requisition is that the worn an have a small family or no family at all, because if she have a large family. then she would have to stay at home and look after them. It Is very Impor tant that she be single or have no chll dren at all, and then' she can attend to all the secrets of the 'neighborhood all the time. A woman with a largo fami ly makes a very poor whisperer. " It is astonishing bow these whisper ers gather up everything. They know everything that happens. There are telephone and telegraph wires reaching from their ears to all the houses in the neighborhood. They have no taste for healthy news, but for the scraps and peelings thrown out of the scullery In to the back yard they have great avid ity. On the day when there is a new scandal in the' newspapers they have no time to go abroad. - On the day when there are four or five columns of delightful private letters published In a divorce case she stays at home and reads and reads and reads. No time for her Bible that day, but toward night, perhaps, she may find time to run out a little while and see whether there are any new developments. Satan' Dominion. Satan does not have to keep a very sharp lookout for his evil dominion in that neighborhood. He has let out to her the whole contract. She gets hus bands and wives Into a quarrel and brothers and sisters Into antagonism, and she disgusts the pastor with the flock and the flock with the pastor, and she makes neighbors who before were kindly disposed toward each other over suspicious and critical, so' when one of the neighbors passes by In aV carriage they hiss through their teeth and say, "Ah, we could all' keep carriages if we never paid our debts!" When two or three whisperers get to gether, they stir a caldron of trouble, which makes me think of the three witches of "Macbeth" dancing around a boiling caldron in a dark cave: Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a .fenny snake I In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog. Wool of bat and tongue of dog; N Adder'i fork and blind worm's sting. Lizard's leg and owlet's wing For, a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell both boil and bubble. Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and caldron bubble, " Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, - Witches mummy, maw and gulf " Of the ravin'd salt sea shark; ' ...... Make the gruel thick and stark; Add thereto a tiger's chaudron For the ingredients of our caldron. . , Double, double, toil and trouble, ' Fire burn and caldron bubble; j Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good. j I would only change Shakespeare in j this, that," where he puts the word i "witch" I would put the word "whls-; perer." Ah, what a caldron! Did you ever get a taste of it? I have more re spect for the poor waif of the street j that goes down under the gaslight, j with no. home and no God for she de-: ceives no one as to what she is -than I have for these hags of" respectable so ciety who cover up their tiger claws with a fine shawl and bolt the hell of their heart with a diamond breastpin! Masculine Whisperers). The work of masculine whisperers Is chiefly seen in the embarrassment of business. Now, I suppose, there are hundreds of men here who at some time have been in business trouble. 1 will undertake to say that in nine cases out of ten it was the result of some whisperer's work. The whisperer uttered some suspicion in regard to your credit. You sold your horse and carriage because you had no, use for them, and the whisperer said: "Sold his horse and carriage because he had to sell them. The fact that he sold his horse and carriage shows he is going down In business." One of your friends gets embarrassed and you are a little involved with him. The whisperer says: "I wonder If be can stand under all this pressure? I think be Is going down. I think he will have to give up." You borrow money out of a bank and a director whispers outside about It, and after awhile the suspicion gets fairly started and It leaps from one whisperer's lips to an other whisperer's lips until all the peo ple you owe want their money and want it right away and the business circles come around you like a pack of wolves, and, though you had assets four times more than were necessary to meet your liabilities, crash went everything! Whisperers! Oh, bow much, business men have suffered! Sometimes In the circles of clergy men we discuss why it Isjthat a great many merchants do not go to, church. I will tell you why they do not go to church. By the time Saturday night comes they are worn out with the an noyances of business life. They have had enough meanness practiced upon them to set their whole nervous sys tem a-twltch. The Meanest Talebearer. I think among the worst of the whls-' perers are those who gather up all the harsh things that have been said iiboiit you and bring them to you all j the things said against you, or against your. family, or against your style of business. They gather them all up and they - bring them to you, they bring them to you In the very worst shape, they bring them to you without any of the extenuating circumstances, and after they have made your feelings all raw, very raw, they take this brine, this turpentine, this aqua f ortls, and rub it in with a coarse towel and rub ft in until It sinks to the bone. They make you the pincushion in which they thrust all the . sharp things they have ever beard , about you. "Now, dont bring me, into a scrape. Now, don't tell anybody I told yon. .Let It be between you and me. Don't involve me in it at alL" They, aggravate, you to the point of profanity, and then they wonder you cannot sing psalm tunes! They turn, you on a spit before a hot fire and wonder why you are not ab sorbed In gratitude to them because they turn you on a spit. Peddlers of night shade. Peddlers of Canada this tle. Peddlers of nux vomica. Sometimes they get -you in a corner where you cannot very well escape without being rude, and then they tell you all about this one, and all about that one, and all about the other one, and they talk, talk; talk, talk; talk. After awhile they go away leaving the place looking like a ; barnyard after the foxes and the weasels .have been around; here a wing, and there a claw, and yonder an eye,: and there a crop. How they do make the feathers fly I Itather than the defamation of good names,' it seems to me it .would be al most as honorable and useful , if you Just took a box of matches In your pocket and a razor in your hand and go through the streets and see bow many houses you can burn down and. how many throats you can cut.. That Is not a much worse business. The de struction of a man's name Is worse than the destruction of bis life. A woman came in confessional to a priest and told him that she had been slan dering her neighbors. The priest prom ised her absolution on condition of her performing a penance. He gave her a thistle top and said, "You can take that thistle and scatter the seeds all over the field." She went and. did so and came back. "Now," said the priest, "gather up all those seeds." She said, "I can't." "Ah!" he said. "I know you can't! Neither can you gather up the evil words you spoke about your neigh bors." AU good men and all good wo men have sometimes bad detractors after them. John Wesley's wife whis pered about him, whispered all over England, kept on whispering about that good man as good a man as ever lived and kept on whispering until the connubial relation was dissolved. Even Jesus Assailed. Jesus Christ bad these whisperers after blm, and they charged him with drinking too much and keeping bad' company. "A wine bibber and the friend of publicans and sinners."- You take the best man that ever lived and put a detective on his track for ten years, watching where he goes and when he comes, and with a determina tion to misconstrue everything, and to think he goes here for a bad purpose and there for a bad purpose, with that determination of destroying him, at the end of the ten years he will be held despicable In the sight of a great many people. If it is an outrageous thing to despoil a man's character, how much worse Is It to damage a woman's reputation? Yet that evil grows from century to century, and It Is all done by whisper ers. A suspicion Is started. The next whisperer who gets hold of It states the suspicion as a proved fact, and many a good woman, as honorable as your wife or your mother, has been whispered out of all kindly associa tions and whispered Into the grave. Some people say there Is no hell, but If there be no hell for such a despoiler of womanly character It is high time that some philanthropist built one. But there is such a place established, and what a time they will have when all the whisperers get down there together rehearsing thingsr Everlasting carni val of mud. Were it not for the un- r comfortable surroundings, you might suppose they wouia oe giau to gei there. In that region where they are all bad what opportunities for exploita tion by these whisperers! On earth to despoil their neighbors sometimes they had to lie about them, but down there they can say the worst things possible about their neighbors and tell the truth. Jubilee of whisperers. Grand, gala day of backbiters. Seiniheaven of scandal mongers stopping their gabble about their diabolical neighbors only long enough to go up to the Iron gate and ask some newcomer from the earth. "What Is the last gossip In .the city on earth where we used to live?" Now, how are we to war against this Iniquity which curses -every community on earth? First by refusing to listen to or believe a whisper. Every court of the land has for a law, and all de cent communities have for a law, that you must hold people innocent until they are proved guilty. There is only one person worse than the whisperer, and that Is the man or woman who lis tens without protest. The trouble Is you hold the sack while they fill it. The receiver of stolen goods is just as bad as the thief. An ancient writer de clares that a slanderer and a man who receives the slander ought both to be hanged the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. And I agree with him. Don't Retail Slander. When you hear something bad about your neighbors do not go all over and ask about It, whether U Is true, and scatter It and spread It. You might as well go to a smallpox hospital and take a patient and carry him , all through the community asking people If they really thought It is a case of smallpox. That would be very bad for the patient and for all the neighbors. Do not retail slanders and whisperings. Do not make yourself the Inspector of warts, and the supervisor of carbuncles, and the commissioner for street gutters, and the bolder of stakes for a dogfight. Can it be that you, an immortal man. that you, an Immortal woman, can find no better business than to become a gutter inspector? Besides that, at your family table al low no detraction. Teach your children to speak well of others. Show them the difference between a bee and a wasp the one Catherine honey, the other thrusting a sting. I read of a family where they kept what they called "A Slander Book," and when any slander- js words were uttered in the bouse 1st, 2nd, i- s. To Our Country People and Our Friends at Large We don't expect but propose to devote the most of our time to making n comiortabie. vjur store will be have ! all the pure Ice Water that conveniences of pur be ready to show, you through our! Stock ui v giving yuu an Clothing, besides posting you as sights of the occasion. ALL COME. WE ARE AT 300 S. ELM ST. Salesmen: J. W. Crawford, W. S. Bees, Harry 8. Donnell, ' ! Will. B. B&nkin, Joi T. Bee. about anybody, or detraction uttered. It was all put down" In this book! T13t book was kept carefully. For the first few wee&s there were a great many en tries, but after a while there were no entries at all. Detraction stopped In that household. It would be a good thing to have a slander book In all households.: j j Are any of you given to this habit of whispering about others? Let me per suade you to desist. ; Mount Taurus was a great place for eagles, and cranes would fly, along that way, and they would cackle so loud that the eagles would know of their coming and they would pounce upon them and de stroy them, j It is said that the old cranes found this out, and before they started on thai r flight they would al their mouth so and then they ways have a stone in I they could not cackle. would fly In 1 perfect safety, j Oh, my friends, be as wise as the old cranes and avoid the folly of the young cranes! Do not cackle. If there are people here who are whispered about. If there are people here who are slandered. If there are people here who are abused In any cir cle of life, let! me say for your encour agement that these whisperers soon run out. They may do a little damage for awhile, but after awhile their de traction becomes a eulogy, and people understand them just as well as though some one chalked all over their over coat or their shawl these words: pllere goes a whisperer. Room for the leper. Room!" You go ahead and dd your duty, and God will take care of your reputation. How dare you distrust him? You have committed to him your souls. Can you not trust hlni with your reputation? Get down on your knees before God and settle the whole matter there. That man whom God takes care of Is well' sheltered, j! Proper L'ae of the Tonmie. Let me charge you, my friends, to make right and holy use of the tongue. It is loose at one end and can swing either way, but It is fastened at the other end to the floor of your mouth, and that makes you responsible for the way It wags. Xanthus. the philoso pher, told his servant that on the mor row he was going tb have some friends to dine and told him to get the best thing he could find In the market. The philosopher and his guests sat j down the next, day at the table. They had nothing but . tongue-j-four or five courses of tongue tongue cooked In this way and tongue cooked In that way, and the philosopher lost his pa tience and said to his servant. DIdnt I tell you to get the best thing in the market?" He said: "I did get the best thing In the market Isn't the tongue the organ of sociality, the organ of eloquence, the organ of kindness, the organ of worship?" i j ,: Then Xanthus said, "Tomorrow I want you to get the worst thing In the market." And on the morrow the phi losopher sat at the table, and there was nothing there but tongue four or five courses of tongue tongue In this shape and tongue In that shape. And the philosopher again lost his patience and said, "Didn't I tell you to get the worst thing in the market?" iThe servant re plied, "I did; for Isn't j the tongue the organ of blasphemy, the organ of defa mation, the organ of lying?", j . . Oh, my friends, employ the tongue which God so wonderfully created as the organ of taste, the organ of deglu tition, the organ of articulation to make others happy and In the service of God! If you whisper, whisper good encouragement to the fallen and hope to the lost. " Ah, my friends, the time wlQ soon come when we will all whisper! The voice will be enfeebled In the last sickness, and, though that voice could laugh and shout and sing and halloo until the forest echoes an 4 . 3rd and 411) of August, to do much business open you can store will be at your uic uuuriiiauon you wisn relative to our F' s i j ' j ' ! PPplnlilLliililg swered, it will be so feeble then wo can only whisper consolation to those whom we leave behind and only whis per our hope of heaven, j While I" speak this (Very moment there are hundreds whispering their last utterances. Oh, when that solemn hour comes to you and to me, as come soon It will, may it be found that we did our best to serve Christ and to cheer our comrades in the earthly Struggle and that we consecrated not only our hand, but our tongue, to God! So that the shadows that fall around our dying pillow shall not be the even ing twilight of a gathering night, but the morning twilight of an everlasting day. .. j 1 1 j This morning, at half past 4 o'clock, I looked out of my window, and the stars were very dim. I looked out a few moments after, and the stars were almost Invisible. I looked out an hour or two afterward. Not a star was to be seen. What was the -matter with the stars? Had they melted Into dark ness? 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