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Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1932, Page 15 (Supplement)

Idle gossip was the subject of comment by the Rev. J. D. McLennan Wilson when preaching at old St. Andrew’s last Sunday. Striving to look impartially upon past persons and events, two things impressed them, he said. Their most deadly sin, and that from which they had suffered most, was gossip. “Thai beast of prey,” as George Meredith called it, “which does not wait for the death of the creature it devours.” It was a common failing, and, alas, only a trifling defect in their eyes; but its cruel teeth had torn noblest reputations, and its hateful claws had left bleeding and weak many fine causes, and even Christian institutions. It was this dreadful fault, said Coffin, which brought Jesus Himself to the Cross on Calvary. “We, all* of us, and most’times unthinkingly, do err here,” said Mr. Wilson. “But Christ’s gentle word to us is, Tn honour preferring one another’; ‘Be kindly affectioned one to another.’ ?