The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-03-03
PROFANITY.
Extracts from Ono Of Sam Jones' Recent
Sermons In Cincinnati.

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Extracts from Ono Of Sam Jones Recent
Sermons In Cincinnati.
We will take up first the sin most
commonly practiced among. men, and
that's the sin Of profanity.
Oh, what fearful sin, in all its ag-
gravated 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 a 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 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 a few minutes for some cause, and
the two gentlemen who were carrying
on their conversation swore, and swore
awfully, and the grandmother jabbed
the ends OF 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 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 l won't
have him hear this awful talk for thu
world, and it's the height ofimpudence
and shows how you were raised, BY
sitting among strangers and pouring
out your profanity in the ears O
people,"
could travel in perfect peace bu
for this one thing! These railroad!
have got up their sleeping cars ant
their mail and baggage and express
cars, and they just lack one more car
want them to put on cussing ca
and put in all these blackmoutheC
travelling scoundrels.
Profanity! Profanity!
l recollect on the streets of my owl
town, when ! was boy, we were al
standing on the corner, and the minis
ter passed by just as ! swore. He laiG
his hand on my shoulder and said
"Young man, don't curse that man. l
is just like holding coal of fire in you
hand and squeezing your fingers on i
and saying: Coal of fire burn some ont
else.'" l always thought of that aft
erwards, that it was ''cOal of fire burr
some one else"
That fearful excuseless sin-profani
ty! When the devil wants to catch
good man he bats his hook and cover
it up, and then they don't bite; bu
when he wants to catch q profan'
swearer he throws in the naked hook
and says: Fool, gobble it down." sut
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 hell
you in business. It doesn't make any
body think any more Of you; it DON
make your wife think any more Of you
If you are professional swearer ant
user Of profanity, you just lack tina
much of being gentleman, l don
care what else you may be.
This excuseless and useless profani
ty! Boys, let's assert our manhood
and our sense Of justice and the goot
that's in US, and let's say this after
noon: II have sworn my last oath
boys. Whatever else may be doome,
for, l won't curse my way to hell"
Boys, let's quit this profanity. There
no manhood in it. There's no beaut
in it. There's no business in it.
heard a drummer say once that h
went ont on the road with anothc
drummer, who had different sample
and was in different line of business
Said he: at every town I sold good
his man didn't sell any. At last, when
he had failed to make trade at stor
went to, and when he walked out tn
gentleman said: Who is that man
/ told him. Well, said he, you ca
just tell every drummer on the roa
that none of these cussing, BLACKBURN
drummers need come about my store t
sell goods; I'll quit the business fir,
before l buy any goods from one {
'em.'"
The other drummer one-day aske
whats the matter?" Said l: at
not your firm, or your samples. but it
you. That man told me he wouldn
buy from a profane drummer" tn
drummer said to this: IF that's 81
:. I'll quit now" And he went on h
way and sold afterwards as many gooC
as any other drummer on the road.
As class there isn't a bigger hearte'
, nobler set of men in the world tina
! commercial men. like them. They