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

: in Missouri than / ever heard in years
before. God keep you black-mouthed
J wretches and reform you here upon this
. ground this evening. Amen.
The man that swears in the presencs
of his wife and children is brute.
There isn't hog that roots-in the pas
. lures of Missouri that would swear in
the presence of its young if it knew it
. you'd corrupt them God pity a man
when he gets below hog. Sensation.
| had rather my boy would run with a
hog than with you. By running with
the hogs he might get hoggish. but he
would never learn to curse, thank God
Ii you are going to keep on swearing,
YOU emigrate. Get out TO some little
little island of the sea where nobody
can hear it, and spend your life ike
Robinson Crusoe, among the goats; and
you are fit for nothing else in God
Almighty's world only to be butted by
a goat, and / would hate to be the goat
that had the nasty job on hand
Laughter.
AFRAID OF THE SHERIFF.
The sin of profanity-it curses men
here and damns them hereafter. WHY
do you want to commit this sin against
God2 Anybody think more of you7
oh, this fearful sin that blights the soul
| here and damns it in eternity, Why do
you want TO swears Next time you
curse and any man asks if you will steal,
you tell him "only in the army" and if
he asks why you don't steal after the
war, you tell him "cause-'cause-'
there's Sheriffs and jails round here"
Tell the truth. You'll steal.
God reform us here this evening and
let US escape the sin of profanity. There
IS no reason for il. No excuse for it
whatever. | recollect when : was a
| profaDe young man on the streets of my
town and preacher passing by heard
me swear at something, and he walked
up to me and put his hand on my
| shoulder. Said he, "young man, don't
curse any man. 1t is holding hot Goals
of fire in youi hand, scorching your
own hand while throwing coal of fire
to burn somebody else" And | never
swore after that that l didn't think of
this throwing Goals of fire to burn some
body else. Oh God, forgive me, ten
thousand times forgive me, that | ever
blistered my lips with the excuseless sin
OF profanity. You quit that cursing,
sir; and stop that profanity of yours.
oh, men, let us duit it. Let US quit it.
And above all things, not only stop
your profanity, but stop your foul
mouthed yulgarity have got contempt
for a foul-mouthed man or woman
either, telling your smutty tales and
obscene jokes. You are a stencil and a
dog. Applause.
The sin of profanity-my lips shall
be kept from evil, and my lips and my
mouth from speaking guile. The words |
of my mouth and the meditations of my
heart shall be acceptable in the sight of
God. And | pray God that whatever
else you may be doomed tor that no
man that hears my voice this evening |
will ever commit the sin of profanity
again while you live. Let us say, away |
with it. / am done with it. | am done
with it." And / want to say about this j: |
| have preached in cities of 10000 or |
10000, and | have preached on this |
line, and people have told me months |
afterward, II haven't heard an oath in |
our city since you was in our commu- |
nifty" God grant that this grand old |
county, perhaps one of the richest in |
the world, may never have another oath |
sworn on its soil. Amen Amen! And |
then our children will grow up clean in |
conversation. Oh, friend, don't do that. |
There is nothing in it, and it will damn |
you hereafter. Dent do that. Escape |
the sin of profanity. 1t has got death |
in it here and damnation hereafter.
SABBATH BREAKING.
The next sin we take up in order is
the sin of Sabbath-breaking. I tell you |
xue hoy
America where we have no Sabbath |
Thank God for every respectable foreign
er that has ever planted his foot on |
American soil. But, brothers, if foreign |
ers are to come in on us and desecrate
our Sabbath, aad make us forget our
Sabbath, we had better build a wall |
round America 100 feet high and never |
suffer a foreigner to put his foot on our |
soil if he is going to teach US to desc |
crate the Sabbath and forget the God of |
the Sabbath. Thank God, down in |
Georgia if you play base ball on Sunday |
you will sleep in Jail that night. You
try to run one of your freight trains |
across our State on Sunday and the
whole crew will sleep in Jail at night. |
You open theater in Georgia on Sun
day night and you will see the whole |
thing spend the night in the calaboose. |
Thank God, we have got Sabbath in
Georgia. Our Sabbaths are as sacred to
us as our wives and children. God pity
the nations that have forgotten the
Sabbath day Amen.
You go into Plattsburg on Sunday
morning and evening. See that crowd |
gathered on the street corner. There's
husband that has left pure wife and
sweet children at home a Sunday morn
ing to gather down on a street corner
You see that set down there. They
gather on the street corners and sit
there afternoon and morning and tell
their smutty tales and spew out their
profanity, and there they sit, and |
imagine that wheh an old buzzard comes
sweeping over the heavens, and he gets
within half mile of that crowd he
looks moment, and then he sniffles
them afar and then he changes his
course. "M-mi They are too nasty
for me, and away he goes. Laughter
Now fellow has got pretty low when
| he gets so buzzard won't come within
half mile of him, and that's about the
way with some of you old carcasses
about here. Laughter
Sometimes you hear people say, 81
don't like these Sunday Christians"
| Well, there's sense in which they are
| the only sort l do like. You show me
a man that reverences and keeps the.
Sabbath, and I'll show you a man that
will keep every day in the week You
show me man that desecrates the Sab
1 bath. and I'll show you a man that will
desecrate every day in the week. / like
these old blue-stocking Presbyterians
i for that You have got so now that you
are no better than the balance of US, but
you used to be decent and reverence the
Sabbath and keep it holy. God forgive
you for departing from your strict old
rules on the Sabbath and bring US all
back to them again.
i THE MEASNEss OF IT.
Solomon was travelling through a
country once when he came into a val
ley inhabited by monkeys. He turned
to the guide and said: What are these
things jumping around here and there ~
i.WelI,' said the guide. ssfhese are a
nation of people that came out here and
forgot the Sabbath, and they have turn
ed to these things" And think all we
[ lack of being a nation of monkeys are
| tails and fur and we will be fixed. Amt
/ / right That's my judgment Don't
any Of you get shocked while am
describing ysu, and don't any of you
good ladies get your condignity and
E urbsnity smashed. / tell you | married
, | as nice woman as you are or viii be
) seventeen years ago, and we have beer
i happy all along, and if my wife can put
= mn with me for seventeen years YOU car