The Christian Worker Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...like the dog, he steals behind those in whom he wishes to flesh his teeth, deals in inuendoes, insinuations, evil surmisin s, significant shrugs and looks, double-entendres, words meaning one thing in their literal sense, and altogether another thing from the tone in which they are uttered, and so destroys a good name that no open assault could have affected. In this way the weak often overwhelm the strong; the violent the most pure. The blow from behind, and in the dark, accomplishes its work of ruin before danger is even suspected. The truly good man, however, will assail no man's good name. If he cannot speak good of another, he will say nothing. He thinks, and justly too, that he has no more right to injure anothcr's character than he has to injure his health; to destroy anotheifs good name than he has to estroy his life; he " backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor." If he discovers his neighbors faults, he does not noise them abroad, but tries to conceal them; and so if he discovers his neighbors necessities, he does what he can to relieve them. Moreover, _he taketh not " up a reproach against his neighbor." Some understand these words to mean he will not originate a reproach against his nei hbor; others understand them to mean that he will not listen to a reproach against his neighbor. The willing listener is as bad as the tale-bearer. If there were none to listen to the tale of scandal, there would be none to start it, and none to repeat it. The slanderous ear, then, is as detestable as the slanderous tongue. And yet, when the scandal is once started, how few hesitate to circulate it, thinking themselves guiltless, because they did not originate it We have, however, yet...