Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-25 | Page 4 | Pastor Deprecates Results of Gossip

PASTOR DEPRECATES RESULM GOSSIP The Rev. John Edward Carver Says Men Equally Guilty With Women. Fp'-ial to The Tribune. OiJUKN, Sop:. I. - Ymtending that men gos'-up fully as mii'-ii. if not more, than vonuji. Mild That Lhe frvil rsultr: of gosalp are. oi'tTt the smrj we overlook, the Rev. John i.lward i'?rver used e.s tract.s from the M;na Charta. as the moat important words tillered by the Knglish people, and also as an argument a-ainst Hie littleness of talk. HLs subject was: "The Sins We, Overlook: the Gossip of the Street and Jhe iomo." In pari lie bald: It you were asked to av what wore tit'; most, important winds ever lirsL uttered by 1 1 : p fchighsb race, what w. nil-1 yaiir ausrttr be? Well, the gen- ' etal npliiioti has f f-r heen t hat t lie fr-ntenfGR In the Magna Charta which deal with lhe rights of tiie free man are not onlv the most important in Our world of speech, though they weie written in Latin in the slate paper, hut lhe great political words of all historv. Tlifty are: "No tree nmn shall be taken or irnprisloned or he disseised of his freehold, or liberties or free ( ustonis, or outlawed or exiled or otherwise oth-erwise destroyed: nor will we pass on him nor ennriemn him except by la wfnl judgment of his peers, or by the law of i lie I h m I . will not deny nor defer to any man. we will not s?ll to any man. either right or justice." jus-tice." To the.-e woul.-; It is tit tins, to add from the words of the, eulogiuni of Lord Chatham: "Those word 'no free man' have meaning which Interests In-terests all. " They deserve to be remembered, re-membered, t hey deserve to be inculcated incul-cated in our minds, t hoy are worth all the classics." All oin liberties, powers and hopes have Mowed from these word?. They have been t lie great source of all that we call best nf worldly values. 1 quote these words to show you lhe valup of words. Christ paid that we would have to account for each idle word spoken. We all speak very many a day. Scandal, gossip, scoffing and angering are sins the, t Olenites all know. Are they sins? Yea, if you can judge sin, by Its ruin. Many minds and souls are ruined by thfl incessant light talk tha.t makes all life a light and trivial thing. Faculties Facul-ties of mind and heart and soul are dwarfed hy the everlasting littleness of talk. talk. talk. Men gossip as murli If not j more than the women, and the children who have to listen to it. all their days nni't wonder why the world is so amall that the old round of- petty th"mes must be gone over daily. Jesus Christ never spake an Idle word, for he thought of" the eternal things. Your thoughts will draw your words where they wiM. If you desire to use the gift of language to the full use our thought and desire and hope to lead you from th passing- to the enduring. en-during. This wurld is Idled with grand themes if we only consider them. Words are real life.