Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-04
PROFANITY.
Extracts from One Of Sam Jones' Recent
Sermons in Cincinnati.


Extracts from One of Sam Jones' Recent
Sermons in Cincinnati.
We viii take up first the sin most
commonly practiced among men, and
that's the sin of profanity.
Oh, what fearful sin, in all its az
grayated guilt and its general Use in
this land is this sin of profanity.
Old men swear, and young men
swear, and women swear. and children
swear, and we're almost nation of
swearers to-day as we walk up and
down the land.
Profanity! How much there is of it
in this land. a mother sends her little
boy down street TO get a spool of
thread, and the little fellow walks
three blocks. and oh, he can't get back
to his innocent mother without some
wretch has sowed his little heart full of
the seed of profanity.
Oh. how much profanity curses this
State and this country. | often think
of the grandmother of little Willie, who
was on the train and the train stopped
for few minutes for some cause. and
the two gentlemen who We're carrying
on their conversation swore. and swore
awfully. and the grandmother iabbed
the ends IF her fingers into the ears of
little Willie and compressed them
tight, so that Willie would not hear
their awful profanity. Willie sat still
for a little while, and then he shook his
head and moved about, and he was so
restless he would not let his grant
mother hold her fingers in his ears. and
so his grandmother rushed up the aisle
and said to the two swearers: Gentle
men, my little Willie won't let me hold
my thumbs in his ears. and / won't
have him hear this awful talk for the
world, and it the height ofimp udence,
and shows how YOU were raised, by
sitting among strangers and pouring
out your profanity in the ears of
people"
| could travel in perfect peace but
for this one thing. These railroads
have got up their sleeping cars and
their mail and baggage and express
ears. and they just lack one more car.
want them to put on cussing car
and put in all these blackmouthed
travelling scoundrels.
Profanity. ProfanityM
i recollect on the streets of my own
town, when was a boy, we were all
standing on the corner. and the minis
ter passed by just as | swore. He laid
his hand on my shullder and said:
young man, don't curse that man. 1t
is just like holding a coal of fire in your
hand and squeezing your fingers on it
and saving: Coal OF fire burn some one
else | always thought of that aft
erwards, that it was .'coal of fire burn
some one else.
That fearful eycuseless sin-profani-
~! When the devil wants to catch a
good man he bats his hook and covers
it up. and then they don't bite: but
when he wants to catch a profane
swearer he throws in the naked hook.
and says: Fool, gobble it down., and
the fool gobbles it down.
Profanity. What does it pay you?
Nobody thinks any more of you be-
cause YOU swear. 1t don't even help
Won in business. 1t doesn't make any
body think any more of You: it don t
make Your wife think any more of you.
If you are a professional swearer and
user of profanity, You just lack that
much of being gentleman. / don t
care what else you may be.
This eNcuSeless and useless profani-
ty! BOYS. lets assert our manhood.
and our sense of justice and the good
that's in us. and lets say this after
noon: Il have sworn my last oath.
boys. Whatever else / may be doomed
for. won't curse my way to hell.
Boys. let quit this profanity. There 5
no manhood in it. There's no beauty
in il. There's no business in it.
| heard drummer say once that he
went out on the road with another
drummer. who had different samples
and was in different line of business.
Said he: - every town l sold goods
his man didn't sell any. At last, whent
he had failed TO make trade at store
/ went to. and when he walked out the
gentleman said: Who is that man?'
/ told him. We'll. said he, you can
Just tell every drummer on the road
that none of these cussing. blackguard
drummers need come about my store to
sell goods; III quit the business first
before l buy any goods from one OF
EN-"
The other drummer one-dav asked
What the matter?" Said |: 1t 5
not your firm. OF your samples. but ii 5
YOU. That man told me he wouldn I
buy from profane drummer. The
drummer said to this: If that 5 so,
I'll quit now" And he went on his
way and sold afterwards as many goods
as any other drummer on the road.
A. = class there ism q bigger hearted.
nobIer set CT men in the world than
commercial men. / Ike them. They re