The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-05

! sln- some OF US are much worse dli
eased than others. Some die soonei
But the coffin and the shroud and th
: grave await Us all, and the iudgmeu
bar of God wait Us all. They that ar
IN their grave shall come forth; the
that have done good to the resurrection
OF life immortal, and they that hay
done evil to the resurrection of damna
J ton. And when we say escape 70
your life, we mean simply escape fron
sin.
Sin Is the transgression of the law
and We propose TO discuss the text, aide
by suggestions from the Ten Command
ments. Now some men differ as to tn
genuineness and authenticity of the Bibl
Listen TO me moment Hear me
fellow-cltizens. [ say this: | dom
care who wrote the Ten Com
mandments. / don't care if YOU sa'
| God didn't write them. i don't care i
you say that Hume, the historian, is tn
author of the Ten Commandments.
don't care if Josh Billings wrote the Tel
Commandments. If you don't live uy
| to level with them you ought to be il
the penitentiary of Missouri to-day.
reckon you understand that. / want Il
keep on practical line ! will keep OIL
a level with more of my congregation
never will go down on level with
some of you. will stand up solid anC
preach to you. will never wallow in
the mud with some men who look me il
the face to-day.
| THE SIN OF PROFANITY.
Now, the first sin you are directed te
is the sin of profanity. That is pretty
generally practieed and difused sin in
this world A great many men, a great
many women in the world and great
many boys are guilty of this excuseless
sin of profanity. Now, | want to reason
with you about it moment. When
| you and | see thing differently, it is
because we look at it from different
standpoints. If | will get down where
YOU are, will see like it you see it. But
/ am afraid to get there for fear | might
die before ! could get back. But if you
will come up here and look at it from
my standpoint you will see it Just like |
see it. We seeit differently, not because
| our eyes are not good, but because we
| look at it from different standpoints.
Now let us look at the sin of profanity
/ from Bible standpoint. Here let us
take these two commandments:
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not profane the name of
God
There are two commandments mp
before you now. Well, suppose we put
| the others up there, and suppose l say
this: 'sThe man that will steal will tell
lies and get drunk and curse" You
will say: That is so; the man that will
steal will tell lies and get drunk and
swear" Suppose we take it the other
way: ''The man that will swear, will
lie and get drunk and steal" "Oh."
you say; ''It don't go that way. You
mustn't put it that way. If you do you
will get fuss on your hands" Well, its
a poor rule won't work both ways, amt
| it? 1t looks that way to me. Now, we
we will stand the two up there. "Thou
shalt not steal" There's one. "Thou
shalt not swear" There's another.
Here's man who will break this one
every hour of the day. There is no
money in breaking that one, and human
nature leans to the dollar Why is it he
will break this and not that? Is it
because he is an honest man? Say? He
starts round: "Thou shalt not swear;'
and there is nothing in the way. The
way is clear. He starts round this !:
'sThou shalt not STEAL" and don't get
| five blocks before he runs up
against the Sheriff and the Judge and
why he won't steal, can't you? A
any body that would swear would steal.
/ say they won't, and tell you why they
won't. There are a great many old
soldiers here this evening. Is there a
man present here this afternoon that
went into the last war cursing and
didn't steal anything while he was out?
If he is here / want him to stand up.
want you to speak out now. If there is
man here that went into the last war
cursing, and didn't steal anything while
out, j want him to stand up and make
himself known. Stand up, now. If
there is man that went into the last
war cursing and didn't steal anything
while he was out, now stand up. Speak
outl Is there one? You know why he
would steal in the war and wouldn't
steal at nome-becanse there wasn't any
| Sheriffs out in the war, wasn't any court
house out there. Laughter.
ONLY FOR THE BRIDLE.
Listen to me. Whenever you hear a
man swear, you tell him that all you
have to do with him is to pull the bride
off him and turn him loose, and he will
take everything he can get his hands
on Do you believe that? Laughter. !
This old brother in Georgia, he said
that any man that would swear would
steal After sermon was over and after
dinner, he went to see one of the old
sisters of the church. The old Colonel,
her husband, met him at the door and
says:
| You insulted me this morning. You
said anybody that would swear would
steal, and / am as honest, sir, as you
are"
But Colonel said the minister, ''let
us reason little.
No use reasoning, sir. know myself.
am as honest as you are.
"But Colonel, were you in the army %
Eyes, sir.
'sDid you steal in the army@'
80, yes sir; we all stole in the army.
That's what ] meant" said the
brother "All we have to do with one
of your sort is to pull off the bride anG
he was ready to do anything the devi
wanted DONE"
Listen, listen. You take man tha
win swear at home, and put him in tn.
army and he will 90 and steal bee-gum
and another morning a sheep, and a
night he will spend the night at the
worst house that ever cursed humanity. I
a.. ,;,,t ~, soma .af x-ot, fo1 n..-
that was in the war, stand up and Civ,
ven came out of the army, have you
AS soon as you got back among Sheriff
, and Court Houses youquit- Well, that
right.
This sin of profanity-f want to tel
YOU. my fellow citizens in Missouri, tha
! when a man reaches point where b
habitually and persistently, If you vii
turn him loose, he will break then
all. "He's mean enough You say I
, me:
I did you ever swear 2"
'sOh, yes, used to curse.
did you steal anything
@Yes. stole the peace of my hom.
and the blood out of my wife's chcel
and that is as far as could 60 withou
4 running upon the Sheriff. you see.
: always was afraid of Sherifs, an
9 you never saw eursing fellow tbs
Q wasn't.
! AN ExcUsELEss SIN.
: Profanity, the excuseless sin {
E profanity. No character in it--n
i money in it-nonothing that viii max
Q you good citizen or help you
: | aternitv9 What do Won want to swes