As soon as man gets out of touch with
God he inevitably acquires n depraved
idea of the human race. Like the buz?
zard which circles about in the heav?
ens over the hills and the valleys and
the prairies of southern California walt
lng for thc horse or the cow or thc
sheep to drop dead in his tracks that
he may pounce upon it, so the evil
tongue of man seems to glory in thc
banquet of dead reputations, of evil re
ports and of debasing rumors which af
firm that men and women have gone
astray and become as bad as or even
worse than ourselves.
No example of the evil tongue it
moro sinfully su.u.ostivo than when 8
party of men and women get togethei
to discuss the overthrow of a fellow
man. "Have you heard the news?'
asks one evil tongue. "No," answer.
snottier evil tongue. "Tell it mo
What is it?" "Why, you know Mrs
So-and-so, the daughter of our pastor
Well, she 1b being sued for divorce b:
ber husband." "Is that so? Well,
knew it would come! I never did Ilk
her father. Ile always pretended fa
be so good that I felt there was some
thing wrong about him. if that fathe
had only lived as good a life as b
pretended to live, his daughter wouli
not have turned out as she did. Goo<
for him! I never did like that daugh
ter anyhow. She always thought sh
was better than any ode ilse, ano
now to think she is nothing but a
hypocrite!" | "Hare you heard the
news?" again asks the evil tongue.
