Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-19

are cursed by it from end to end. Ga
hotels from morning till midnight reSoun
with il. Men curse on their way 10 tn
bar to get their morning dram; curse tn
ncwSbOy who cries the paper; curse tn
! breakfast for being cold; curse at the BAN
and curse ~ the store; curse on the way I
! bed: curse at the stone against which the,
! strike their foot, and curse at the Splinte
| that gets under the nail. If you do no
| know that this is so il is because your ca
| has been hardened by the perpetual din o
| profanities that are enough to bring down
/ upon any city the hurricane of fire tina
+. consumed SOdOm.
The Habit il Creeping Up
/, into the higher circles. Every woman lie
! SpiSeS Hat and unvarnishcd imprecationS
I but in the most elevated circles there ar,
| women who swear without knowing il
| They have read Bulwcr and George Sane
| and the exaggerated style OF some of oul
! imported as we'll as homemade periodical
literature, until they do not actually know
what is dcCency OF speech. With fairy
/ fan 10 their lips, they utter their oaths, and
under chandeliers which discover not the
faintCSt blush. reCklessly speak the hottest
of names. This is helped on by the second
glass of wine that is perfectly harmless
and though no one dare charge her, being
so timely dressed, with any thing like intON,
iCatiOn, yet there comes u glasSineSS to the
eye and glow to the cheek, and style OF
speech TO the tongue, that were not known
before she took the second glass, that was
perfectly harmless. One wild, terrific wave
of blaSphemy is sweeping over the land.
See the effects of this widespread prOfani-
" in the increasing perjury. Ii men in
ordinary conversation SO commonly use the
name of God, is it wonderful that in the
jury-bOx and in the Alderman'S Office and
in the CuStOm-hOuSe, so many swear false
ly? Notice the way an oath is administer
ed. They toss the Bible at a man, and in
the most trivial way say:
so Help You God.
Kiss the book" | suppose enough lies are
every day told in the Custom House to sink
il. Smuggling although it be done against
positive oath, is in some circles considered
a grand Joke, and you say some day to your
friend: How can you sell those goods 50
cheaply?' and your friend says, with an
eye-twinkle: The Custom House tariff
was not as high on those things as it might
have been" Men more easily break their
solemn OathS than formerly. What strange
yerdiCts juries do sometimes render! What
peculiar charges judges do sometimes make
What unaCcOuntable SlowneSS SheritfS and
their deputies sometimes exhibit in the
execution of their writ! What erratic
railroad enterprises suddenly pass at our
State capitals! What wonderful changes
Congress makes in the tariff on liquors,
What is an oath? Anything solemn? Any
thing appealing to the Almighty? Any
thing stupendous in mans history? No;
it is kissing the book" In land where
the name of God SO often becomes the foot
ball Of what are called respectable circles
how can we expect that it can excite any
yeneratiOn when in the presence of County
Clerk, or Alderman, or. Judge, or Legisla-
tive Assembly, it is used in solemn adjura-
ton? This habit lowers, bedwarfs and de
stroys the entire moral nature. You might
as well expect to raise harvests and vine
yards on the side of belching Stromboli as
to have any great excellency grow upon
your soul when it so often OyertiowS with
the scorip of this
Awful Profanity.
You will never swear yourself up. You will
swear yourself down. The Mohammedans
when they find slip of paper they cannot
read put it aside for fear the name of God
is on it. That you say is one extreme. We
go to the other. You are willing to &C.
knowledge this miserable habit and would
like To have some receipt for it's cure.
Reflect much upon the uselessness of the
habit. Did yOlley of oaths ever start a
heavy load? Did curses ever unrayel a
skein. Ever eXtirpate the meanness Of q
customer. Did they ever collect bad
debt? Did they ever cure a tooth ache?
I'd they ever stop twinge of the govt?
Did they ever save you dollar or put you
q step forward in any great enterprise, or
enable you to gain position or accomplish
anything that you ever wanted to do?
How much did you ever make by swearing?
What, in all the round of lifetime of pro-
AL yNr frnisN hv tina habit
Reflect also upon the fact that it aroused
Gods Indignation The Bible reiterates
in paragraph after paragraph and chapter
after chapter the fact that
All Swearers and BIasphemers
are aCcursed now and are to be forever mis-
cradle. There is no iniquity that has been
so often visited with the immediate curse
of God. At New Brunswick young man
was standing on the railroad track BIAS
pheming. The cars passed and he was
found on the track with his tongue cut out,
People could not understand how, with
comparatively little bruising OF the rest of
his body, his tongue could have been cut
out. In Chicago q man told q falSehoOd
and said that he hoped that if what he said
was not true, God would strike him dead.
He instantly fell. There was no longer any
pulse. There was no reason for his death,
except that he asked God to strike him dead
and God did il. In Scotland q club was
formed in which the members competed as
to which should use the most horrid oathS.
The man who succeeded best in the infamy
was made president of the club. His
tongue began to swell. 1t protruded from
his mouth. He could not draw it in. He
died within three days. Physicians were
aStounded. There was nothing like Ii in
all the books What was the matter with
him?
He Cursed God and Died.
Near CatSkill, New York, dur
ing thunder storm group
of men were standing in q black
smiths shop. There came a crash of thun-
der, and the men were startled. One man
said that he was not afraid; he made q
wager that he dared go out in front of the
shop, while the lightnings were flying, and
dare the Almighty. He went out; shook
his fist AT the heavens, crying: Strike il
YOU dare" Instantly thunderbolt struck
him. He was dead. He cursed God and
died.
God viii Not Abide
this sin. He will not let it escape. There
is kind of manifold paper by which
man may with heavy pencil write upon
dozen sheets at once-tEe writing going
down through all the sheets. So every
oath and blasphemy goes through and is
written indelibly on every leaf OF Gods
remembrance. Ahl how much our Father
bears! Can you make an estimate of how
many blasphemies will roll up from the
streets and saloons Of our cities to-dayS II
you go out and look up you cannot see
them There will be no trail of FIRE on the
sky. but the air Is full OF them. The name