Back-biting: Day 188 readings from "Character And Conduct" - July 9

Readings for July 9 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.

"Back-biting"

Original text:

https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n207/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_190

Authors featured today:

Frederic Farrar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Farrar
Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson

Book featured today:

"Everyday Christian Life" by Frederic Farrar
https://archive.org/details/MN41824ucmf_3

"Wisdom i. 2" refers to the Wisdom of Solomon from the apocrypha https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Apocrypha-Books/. The quotation occurs in chapter 1 but the particular verse is 11 rather than 2 https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Wisdom-of-Solomon-Chapter-1/.

Image:

Frederic William Farrar (1831 - 1903)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_William_Farrar.jpg