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Show because of his emissaries. The souls of gossips are bitter with the Wormwood of their own thoughts and they who listen unresistingly to the gibberish of their filthy imaginations im-aginations are rotted in turn by the intercourse. Gossips are cowards; cow-ards; they dare not say to hip face what they repeat behind their victim's vic-tim's back. Therefore beware of him or her who smiles, in your presence pre-sence and scowls in your absence. Rather make open enemies than ostensible friends. Gossip are traitors, ever ready- to betray him who has most befriended them. Gossips are lecherous, ever alert to coin the tradition of a pure woman's disgrace or to circulate abominable lies concerning upright up-right men; and he or she who gives rise to such falsehoods is no more to be despised than him or her .who spreads them broadcast to an eager multitude of their ilk who roll lewd fictions as sweet morsels under their dirty tongues. Gossips are liars and the truth is not in- them, for trath can not live Crosisips. If an honest man is the noblest work of God then a gossip is the meanest work of Satan. Gossips never do good and never fail to do harm. They are no earthly use to lawyers, preachers, editoro, detectives, detec-tives, or even to Old Nick himself because all men, recognizing the' fact that gossips ar born of hell, become disgusted with the Devil in minds diseased and corrupted to that decree which would sour the' mUk of human kindness in new-born babes. The Advocate. |