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Show t The scandalmonger is ths VSjj CartaaiiO:igt,I !. stmetion of taxes. Suc- j Ene-F' i O SliCCeSo cess depends in a large I f Ey REV. ELVER E. KiCLEY, measure on reputation ; rep- j f Lw.r.CJ. utation is what men and ' ' women thank cf us ; thought i expressed by words, words by the tongue; uDguardad words, like the t'pcd arrow, om sent out, cannot be returned, slay reputation and bkst success. The poorer cf speech is one of God's best gift? to roan. It is by his ability to Hk that man ia separated from all creation below him. Language is man's dene. All other animals are tigue-tie&. "While the tongue is the most important member of man's body, it is likewise the most abused of them all. Fashioned to serve his highest uses, it is often employed to accommodate his lowest. The tongue is the index of character, and, because of its diversified uses there is no faculty man possesses requiring more wisdom and grace iii its management than that of speech, A Christian tongue indicates a Christian character; a petty tongue a petty soul. It ia deplorable that l'ie reputation becomes the target of loose and insinuating speech. The reputation of the surgeon for skill, the merchant for fair dealing, the banker for carefulness and honesty in short, the reputation of any man in eny pursuit is a present valuable possession with a future earning capacity capac-ity and is, consequently, of so much greater value than the purse in hand. "Trash" is Shakespeare's designation of the purse in hand against the v. orking capital of a good name. Words ar- living things. They live in their influence. A thought unexpressed cou Sinners to abide in the secret chambers of the mind and may be there mastered by the will, but expressed, it is grven wings for "the never ending flight of futnre days." Man's uttered words are being transcribed into the pages of his life and become a part of the record of his soul's existence, either to witness for his good or ill. Falsity upon the lips tends to produce falsity in the life. Let tho heart be set on "whatsoever things are true and of good report," and the tongue, aa an index of character, will be witness to a worthy souL |