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“Keep the world e’er outside thee; 
And be thy heart within 
Sacred to God and Duty, 
Unstained by thought of sin; 
Who are the most successful, 
They who do noisiest deeds? 
Nay, he who self has conquered. 
And Christ’s pure Gospel heeds.” 
—Oswald Keatinge. 
An acrid and poisonous plant. 
Calumny-Detraction. 
“If slander he a snake, it is a winged one—it flies as well as creeps.” 
—Douglas Jerrold. 
In Calumny, Truth, as well as charity and justice, is flagrantly vio¬ 
lated; in Detraction, charity and justice are* indeed, grievously wounded, 
but truth is intact—save where there are exaggerations. Both forms of 
such evil speaking, in their various grades, are satanically mischievous and 
malicious. Either or any species of defaming others, may come, gener¬ 
ally and effectively under the common appellation of Detraction. 
Woe to detractors ! St. Paul declares that they shall not inherit the 
"kingdom of God.* 
In effect, the detractor is a thief, who steals from the neighbor a good 
more precious than anything that can he a matter of ordinary theft. 
*2 Cor., vi. 
