We Reap What we Sow

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 41, 20 September 1890, Page 4

We Reap What we Sow

.■•-. .■• ■ — — ♦ ■ "^:- Noiidii lives to himself 5 he could not' lO&' wpuld^ The covetous man has^a miser -for hjs t son, the light woman ha^j a daughter hastening towards, ihei.way.ol shame, the unclean man poisons a workshop with his lecherous imagination, the drunkard infectsJjL^hofe neiglibourhood with his vice's, the 'swearer jfind? his little ohildr scarce out of babyhood, utteiv ingi JbeStial oaths, and shaping his '-tiny;! lips <*n . the blasphemies which areliheu common speech of the house in which *he lives. Who knows how, iar a ;word may. travel ? When 4t letfves^ it is gone for ever. It has has'Soaied away into^the .blue heaven on #rngs its ;> own, and we canibt : recall it if we would. It has set new - thoughfi^Qrring"in a score of hearts - andvwill o travei\<)n in multiplying in- - fluent: titJL : the v eara ; pf men are full -of it. Each man lives in a huge whispenng^allery, and his whispers xotthdr ihe world, growing loudei jWthey :, go, till they fall back "'apon 57 .)^! like the reTerberations of >dista9rt tnTtn^er. ! The wbird spoken ~in the eat ; % "trumpeted ' upon^ the by us,, it is reInemtered by others ; dismissed by *ua, it^^leajied iiito life elsewhere ; -and^oir tb!e threshold of another woric(,~ where every idle word is 3mown,- j;he speech of a lifetime rolls ?bacfc' upon the spiritual ear. Just as rite phonograph treasures up the most delioata inflections of the human voice and^cani reproduce them at the will of the operator, so a thousand minds have^ready received the impression -of bur jjtirdfy' iand, if they were evil> ; share^the iniquity of them with us.— W, W "Dawsbti, " The Threshold of IManfiooai" "■-■ ■ >::(V'r./m*mm" - ■..-