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Chapter 8The Talebearer |
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OH! the unkindness of some. They will search out, magnify, and publish to the four quarters of the globe the failings of their neighbours; but for their neighbours' good traits they have no eyes, no ears, no tongues. Why this unkindness? lt may arise from envy, or spite, or the mere love of scandal But whatever the cause, the practice is utterly wrong, for God has forbidden it. "Speak not evil one of another." "Thou shalt not go up and sow as a talebearer among thy people." Itū is wrong, for it is thoughtless and cruel. Have we not all failings? Is it not, as a rule, calling the kettle black? Who would wish their own weaknesses to be advertised to the world? Let those who are given to the pernicious habit of scandalising cease, for if persisted in it will unquestionably imperil our salvation.-A.T.J. There is nothing more stringently forbidden by the law of God, nothing more blighting to friendship, and nothing more common among men than backbiting, speaking evil of people behind their backs. -- R.R.
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