Villages | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 24, 1879

Villages.

TALMAGE, on habits and fashions, says:—

“And as to villages, I think that in some respects they are worse than cities, because they copy the vices of the cities in the meanest shape; and as to gossip, its heaven is a country village! Everybody knows everybody's business better than he knows it himself. The grocery store or the blacksmith shop by day and night is the grand depot for masculine tittle-tattle; and there are always in the village a half dozen women who have their sun-bonnets hanging near so that at the first item of news derogatory they can fly out and cackle it all over the town. Countrymen must not be too hard in their criticisms of the citizen, nor must the plough run too sharply against the yardstick.”