After mentioning widows qualified for congregation assistance, he wrote: “Turn down younger widows, for when their sexual impulses have come between them and the Christ,... at the same time they also learn to be unoccupied, gadding about to the houses; yes, not only unoccupied, but also gossipers and meddlers in other people’s affairs, talking of things they ought not.
लेखक आर्थर मी ने कहा: “बहुधा वह मिथ्यापवाद जो एक व्यक्‍ति को चोट पहुँचाता है और शायद उसकी बरबादी का कारण बन सकता है, गपशप में आरंभ होता है, वैसी गपशप जो शायद केवल बेकारी से उत्पन्‍न होती है ।