For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014II Thess. 3:11<\/i><\/p>\n
2073<\/b> \u201cG\u201d For Gossip<\/b><\/p>\n
R. G. LeTourneau was for many years an outstanding Christian businessman\u2014heading a company which manufactured large earthmoving equipment. He once remarked, \u201cWe used to make a scraper known as \u201cModel G.\u201d One day somebody asked our salesman what the \u201cG\u201d stood for. The man, who was pretty quick on the trigger, immediately replied, \u201cI\u2019ll tell you. The \u201cG\u201d stands for gossip because like a talebearer this machine moves a lot of dirt and moves it fast!\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n
2074<\/b> Dog With 5 Legs? <\/b><\/p>\n
Abraham Lincoln had a favorite riddle he used to put to his colleagues. It went like this: \u201cIf a man were to call the tail of a dog a leg, how many legs would the dog have?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFive,\u201d was the usual reply. <\/p>\n
\u201cWrong,\u201d Lincoln would say with a homely smile. \u201cThe dog still has four legs. Calling the tail a leg doesn\u2019t make it one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014C. R. Anthony<\/p>\n
2075<\/b> Nosing For News In Trashcans<\/b><\/p>\n
Washington (AP)\u2014A 27-year-old reporter says he is looking for news in the US secretary of state\u2019s trash. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve run into a couple of interesting things so far,\u201d said Jay Gurley, who collected five bags of Henry A. Kissinger\u2019s trash early Tuesday and is now going through the debris. <\/p>\n
Gurley said he works for the National Enquirer<\/i>, a weekly published in Lantana, Florida. <\/p>\n
2076<\/b> Phone Call Broadcast<\/b><\/p>\n
A trick played by magnetic storms is to cause a conversation on a telephone line to jump to a radio line nearby and be broadcast without the knowledge of the two persons talking. This occurred in New York a short time ago when such a connection caused an intimate phone call to be heard on a coast-to-coast program. <\/p>\n
2077<\/b> Classed With Murder And Stealing<\/b><\/p>\n
In a small village in which there was only one church that almost every member of the community attended, one woman made life difficult, often, by her constant prying into the affairs of her neighbors. One day when the rector of the church was trying to show the woman the harm she was doing, she said: \u201cOh well, just prying into my neighbors\u2019 affairs isn\u2019t as bad as what Mrs. So and So does. She gets drunk.\u201d \u201cMadam,\u201d replied the rector, \u201cYour sin is classed with murder, and with stealing, in God\u2019s Word.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Mrs. J. Shields<\/p>\n
2078<\/b> Hole In The Pocket<\/b><\/p>\n
F. W. Boreham tells of the happy soul whose home is the Other End of Nowhere. He has two pockets. One has a hole in it and the other is carefully watched that no hole develops in it. Every thing that he hears of a hurtful nature\u2014insult, cutting remark, gossip, unclean suggestion, or any such thing\u2014he writes on a piece of paper and sticks it into his pocket with the hole. Everything which he hears that is kind, true, and helpful, he writes on a piece of paper and puts it in the pocket without the hole. <\/p>\n
At night he turns out all that is in the pocket without the hole, goes over all that he had put into it during the day, and thoroughly enjoys all the good things that have come his way that day. <\/p>\n
Then he sticks his hand into the pocket with the hole and finds nothing there, so he laughs and rejoices that there are no evil things to rehearse. Too many of us reverse the other, putting the evil things in the pocket without the hole so that we can mull over them again and again, and the good things in the pocket with the hole so that they are quickly forgotten. Paul\u2019s way was: \u201cwhatsoever things are true \u2026 think on these things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Mrs. Clarence Jones<\/p>\n
2079<\/b> When Lincoln Did As He Pleased <\/b><\/p>\n
During the administration of Lincoln, a delegation from a western state called upon him with a written protest against a certain appointment. In particular the paper had a list of specific objections against a Senator Baker, a long-time and beloved friend of the president. The objections were definite reflections on Baker\u2019s character. <\/p>\n
Holding the paper in his hand, Lincoln asked with calm dignity: \u201cThis is my paper which you have given me?\u201d When they assured him that it was, he asked further: \u201cTo do with as I please?\u201d \u201cCertainly, Mr. President,\u201d replied the spokesman. <\/p>\n
Lincoln leaned over to the fireplace, laid the paper on the hot coals, turned to the group and said: \u201cGood day, gentlemen.\u201d<\/p>\n
2080<\/b> Luther Never Divulged Confession<\/b><\/p>\n
Even though he had been a priest for twenty-eight years, Martin Luther, who fell away from the priesthood and the Catholic faith, never revealed anything he had heard in confession. <\/p>\n
He left the Church, married a nun, preached and wrote against the Catholic Church and everyone and everything in it, but he never told a single thing he had heard in confession. <\/p>\n
\u2014Arthur Tonne<\/p>\n
2081<\/b> Not Your Business, Lady<\/b><\/p>\n
A lady once made a complaint to Frederick the Great, King of Russia: \u201cYour Majesty,\u201d she said, \u201cmy husband treats me badly.\u201d \u201cThat is not my business,\u201d replied the king. \u201cBut he speaks ill of you.\u201d \u201cThat,\u201d replied he, \u201cis none of your business.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Clerical Library<\/i><\/p>\n
2082<\/b> Enquire \u2026 Search \u2026 Ask \u2026 Ascertain<\/b><\/p>\n
Dr. Mclean tells how he was rebuked and humbled on a certain occasion when he repeated a grave matter he had heard to a friend. His friend opened his Bible to Deuteronomy 13:14 and read: \u201cIf thou shalt hear say \u2026 then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain that such abomination is wrought among you. \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n
Then his friend turned quietly to him and asked: \u201cHave you, dear brother, enquired? Have you \u201cmade search?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you \u201cask diligently?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you try and find out if the story is true? <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd is the thing \u201ccertain?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it certain that \u201csuch abomination is wrought among you?\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Mclean says he could only acknowledge regretfully that he had not fulfilled any one condition and was repeating the tale from hearsay without making the slightest attempt to act thereon in a Scriptural way. <\/p>\n
\u2014Watchman-Examiner<\/i><\/p>\n
2083<\/b> Six Articles Of Wesley\u2019s Covenant<\/b><\/p>\n
In 1752 a group of men, including John Wesley, who were nicknamed Methodist, signed a covenant which every man might hang on his study wall. The six articles of the solemn agreement follow:<\/p>\n
1. That we will not listen or willingly inquire after ill concerning one another;<\/p>\n
2. That, if we do hear any ill of each other, we will not be forward to believe it;<\/p>\n
3. That as soon as possible we will communicate what we hear by speaking or writing to the person concerned;<\/p>\n
4. That until we have done this, we will not write or speak a syllable of it to any other person;<\/p>\n
5. That neither will we mention it, after we have done this, to any other person;<\/p>\n
6. That we will not make any exception to any of these rules unless we think ourselves absolutely obliged in conference. <\/p>\n
\u2014Evangelistic Illustration<\/i><\/p>\n
2084<\/b> Epigram On Gossiping <\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. <\/p>\n
\u2014Will Rogers<\/p>\n
\u2022 So live that you wouldn\u2019t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. <\/p>\n
\u2022 It isn\u2019t the people who tell all they know that cause most of the trouble in this world, it\u2019s the ones who tell more. <\/p>\n
\u2022 One nice thing about egotists: they don\u2019t talk about other people. <\/p>\n
\u2014Good Housekeeping<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer and the person concerning whom the tale is told. <\/p>\n
\u2014Spurgeon<\/p>\n
\u2022 A four-year-old boy decided that he\u2019d make an attempt at reciting the prayer which he had heard in church. \u201cAnd forgive us our trashbaskets,\u201d he asked, \u201cas we forgive those who trashbasket against us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 Seen on a highway billboard in Indiana: \u201cHe who throws dirt loses ground.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 I never like people to tell me secrets, for I cannot keep them. <\/p>\n
\u2014Spurgeon<\/p>\n
2085<\/b> Booting Capital\u2019s Cars<\/b><\/p>\n
A news report says that Washington, D.C., is placing heavy wheel locks on illegally parked cars. The locks are called \u201cDenver boots\u201d after the city that introduced them in 1948. <\/p>\n
Painted a vivid yellow, the boot weighs about 20 lbs and is a two-part unit that can be clamped on the front wheel of any car in less than two minutes. Once the boot is locked on, the car is made immobile. <\/p>\n
In 1976, nearly 8,000 cars were \u201cbooted\u201d on Washington streets. This was forced on the city government because of the great number of people, many of which were diplomats who simply ignored parking tickets. <\/p>\n
2086<\/b> Scouting For Whom? <\/b><\/p>\n
In Surrey, England, the Boy Scouts, called a halt to the daily good deed for two Cub Scouts. \u201cThey had been warning drivers to watch out for a police radar speed trap down the road,\u201d explained Cub Chief Edgar Lea. <\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Criticisms ; Murmuring ; Rumors ; Matt. 12:6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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