The Ladies' Repository Volume 25 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...to the cause of roligion, though not a wrong to any particular individual. This rule may apply to such cases of discipline in the Church, but it is not the meaning of the text. To trespass in the sense in which the word is here used is "to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude to the injury of another."--Webster. 1. To injure another person is a trespass against him. It may be slight or it may bo severe. Wounding, maiming, or in any way inflicting bodily suffering. 2. Injury done to property. Stealing, various ways of cheating, or taking from another that for which we do not render an equivalent, or any act by which we diminish the value of another's property, or by which we conceal the defects of an article which we wish to sell, or make it appear of more value than it really possesses. 3. Injury to reputation. A good reputation is of great value to one who has earned it by a consistent life. We can commit no greater trespass than to destroy a good reputation. If we slander another, or falsely accuse, or retail the slander of others, or needlessly speak of the faults or fall of those who are trying to live a good life, or in any way excite suspicion of evil, or diminish the confidence that the public repose in a brother, we trespass against his reputation; we do him a great wrong. 4. When we neglect the Scriptural rule to obtain satisfaction we trespass against the trespasser. If, instead of telling the brother his fault privately, we tell it to others, saying that we must have a talk with him, we have done him a lasting injury. Let us now examine the rule. Tell him his fault privately, that he may explain, give his views, or, if wrong, retract and set the matter right. If he hears thee, well; here the matter...