Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-04

and there is not a mayor in America that
has backbone enough 70 Interfere with
him save one, and that, the mayor 81
/ Toronto. proiaDe swearing j. as NUN
forbidden bv the law as theft, OF arson OF
murder; yet who executes II Profanity
ls worse than theft, or arson, or murder,
for these crimes are attacks on humanity
-.that u IN attack on God. This coun-
Try IL
PRE-. EMINENT FOR BLAsPHEArY.
A man travelling in Russia was sup
posed 10 be a clergyman. "Why do you
take me 10 be a clergyman 2" said the
man. "Oh,v SAID the Russian, call other
Americans swearn The crime is multi
IpIyinV IN intensity. God very often shows
what He thinks OF II, but for the most
part the fatality Is hushed up. few
summers ago among the Adirondack |
met tie funeral procession Of man who,
two DAYS before, had fallen under fash
Of lightning while Boosting, after Sun
day OF work 10 the fields, that he had
cheated God ont Of one day anyhow and
the man who worked with him on the
same Sabbath is still living, bat help
| less luyald under the same fash. GA the
road from Margste TO Ramsgate, Eng
land, you may End rough monument
with the inscription, "a boy was struck
dead here while IN the act Of swearing"
Years ago In a Plttsburg prison two
men were talking about the Bible
and Christianity. and one Of them, Thomp.
son by name, spilled TO Jesus Christ q
very low and ylliainous eplthet, and as he
was uttering It he fell A physician was
called, but no help could be given. After
day lying with distended pupils and pal
sled tongue, he passed out Of this world.
In cemetery In Sullivan county, In this
state, are;eight headstones In line, aud
all alike, and these are the facts. In 1861,
diphtherla ragged in village, and O ply
sician was remarkably successful In cur
ing his patients. SO confident did he be.
come, thai he boosted that no case Of
diphtherla could stand before him. and
finally dehed Almighty God TO produce a
case Of diphtheria that he could not cure.
His youngest child soon after took the
disease and died, aud one child after an
other, until all eight had died OF diph.
iberia. The blasphemsr challenged Al
mighty God, and God
ACCEPTED THE CHALLENGE.
But come later down aud give you a
fact that is proved by scores Of witnesses.
This last August OF 1886, man got pro-
vokqd at the continued drought and the
ruin OF his crops, and IN the presence OF
his neighbors he cursed God saying that
he would cut out His heart II He would
come, calling Him liar and coward,
and flashing a knife. And while he was
speaking his lower Jaw dropped, smoke
Issued from mouth and nostrils, and the
heat OF his body was 80 intense II drove
back those who would come near Scores
OF people have visited the scene and saw
the blasphemer 10 awful process OF expir-
ing.
DO not think that because God has been
silent In your case, O, protane swearerl
that he Is dead. Is there nothing now In
the peculiar feeling of your tongue, or
nothing In the numbness of your brain
that indicates that Gcd may come TO
ayenge your blasphemies, or Is already
avenging themf But these cases have
noticed, | believe, are only few
cases where there are hundreds,
Families keep them stin to
avoid the horrible consplcuity.
Physicians suppress them through profess
slonal confidence. II Is very, very.
very long roll that contains the names OF
those who died with blasphemies on their
Ups; aud still the crime rolls on, up
through parlors, up through chandeliers
with lights all abla2e, and through the
pictured corridors OF club rooms, etc,
out through busy exchanges whore oath
meets oath, and down through all the
haunts oil SIN, mingling with the rafting
dice and cracking billiard balls, and the
laughter OF her who hath forgotten the
covenant of her God; and round the cItv
ana round the continent, and round the
earth a seething, boiling surge, filings lis
hot spray into the face Of long.sufferinn
God. And the ship captain damns his
crew, and the merchant damns his clerks.
and the hack driver damns his horse; and
the traveller damns the stone that bruises
his foot, or the mud that soils his shoes.
or the defective time.plece that gets hin,
too late to the rail train. | arrslgu pro.
fame swearing and blasphemy, two names
for the same thing, az being one of the
gigantic crimes OF this land, and for its
eNtlrpation II does seem as II IL were
about
TIME FOR GOD TO ARISE.
Then look moment at the evil OF
drunkenness. Whether YOU live I'm
Brooklyn, or New York, or Chicago. or
Cincinnati, or Savannah. or Boston, or in
any OF the cities OF this land, count up
the saloons on that street as COMPARED
Win lhs saloons nve years ago, and see
they are growing tar out OF proportion to
the increase OF the population. You
people who are so precise and particular
lest there should be some imprudence or
rashuess In attacking the rum traffic, Will
have your son some night pitched into
your front door dead drunk, or your
daughter will come home with her
children because her husband has
by. strong drink been turned into
demoniac. The rum fend has despolled
whole streets OF good homes in all our
cities, Fathers, brothers, sons, on the
funeral pyre OF strong drink! Fasten
tighter the Victims Stir up the namesl
Pile on the corpsesl More men, women
and children for the sacrlncel Let us
have whole generations on IRE OF evil
habit; and at the sound of the cornef,
nute, harp, sackbut, psaltery aud dulci.
mer let all the people fell down and wor-
ship King Alcohol, or you shall be cast
into the fiery furnace under some pollti
cal platforml
! indict this evil as the fratrlclde, the
patticlde, the matriclde, the uxorlcide, the
InUirlnf OI tho Va