The Tongue

[Woody]

Quote:

" They dissect the characters of their friends and serve them up as a dainty dessert. A precious bit of slander is passed around the board " {AH 440.2}

Have any of you seen this going "around the board"?

Quote:

"Gossip and Talebearing.--We think with horror of the cannibal who feasts on the still warm and trembling flesh of his victim; but are the results of even this practice more terrible than are the agony and ruin caused by misrepresenting motive, blackening reputation, dissecting character? Let the children, and the youth as well, learn what God says about these things: "Death and life are in the power of the tongue." {AH 440.5}