Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-10
CURSING AND SWEARING.
REV. DR.. TAt.MAGs DiScouRSES ON
THE HAEiT OF PROFANITY.

Have Such . Magnificent Language.
1t Comes fiom Inirmity Of Temper
and the Proflse Use of Bywcrds-
BROOKLYN. April s-One of the hymns
sung at the Tabernacle this morning begins
with the words:
So let our lips and lives express
The Holy Gospel We profess
After reading the appropriate passages Of
Scripture, the Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage, ID.
D., preached on the habit of cursing and
swearing. His text was from the Book Of
Job, ii, Z. and 9: $50 went Satan forth
from the presence of the Lord, and smote
Job with sore boils from the sole of his
foot unto his crown. And he took him a
potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he
sat down among the ashes. Then said his
wife unto him, 'Dost thou still retain thine
integrityi Curse God, and die'n
A story oriental and marvellous. Job was
the richest man in all the east. He had cam
els and oxen and asses and sheep, and, what
would have made him rich without anything
else, seven SONS and three daughters. II was
the habit of these children to gather together
for family reunion. One day Job is thinking
of his children as gathered together at q ban
auet at the elder brothers house.
While the old man is seated at his tent
door he sees some one running, evidently,
from his manner, bringing bad news. What
is the matter nowi ''Oh,n says the messen-
ger, "a foraging party of Sabeans has
fallen upon the oxen and the asses, and
DESTROYED them and butchered ali the ser
wants except myself Stand aside. Another
messenger running. What is the matter
nowi "Oh," says the man, ''the lightning
has struck the sheep and the shepherds, and
all the shepherds are destroyed except my
self" Stand aside Another messenger rum
ming. What is he matter nowi "Oh,n he
saws, '.the Chaldeans have captured the
camels and slain all the camel drivers except
myself" Stand aside. Another messenger
running. What is the matter nowi "Oh,n
he saws "a hurricane struck the four cor
ners of the tent where your children were as
sembled at the banquet, and they are all
dead.n
But the chapter of calamity has not ended.
Job was smitten with elephantiasis or black
leprosy. Tumors from head to foot-fore-
head ridged with tubercles-eyelashes fall
out-nostrils excoriated-voice destroyed
intolerable exhalations from the entire body,
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come TO the Conclusion that there was some
gy,,at advantage to be reaped from profanity,
Blaspbemy is all abroad. You hear it in
every direction. Ths drayman swearing Mt
his cart the sewing girl imprecat;np the
TANGLED sLein. the accountant cursine the
lonS line of troublesome figures. Swearing
ar the store swearing in the loft. swearing
in ths cellar. swearing on the street. swear
inc in the factory. Children swear. Men
swear. Women swearl Swearing from the
rouob calling ON the Almighty in the low
restaurant clear mn TO the reckless ..Oh
Iordrn OF a gIittering drawing room; and
the one is as much blaspheiny as the other.
There are times when we must cry out to
the Lord by reason Of our physical agony or
our mental distress, and that is only throw
ing ont our weak hand toward the strong
arm Of father 1t was no profanity when
James A. Garfield, shot in the Washington
depot, cried out: "My God, what does this
meanr There is no profanity in calling out
upon God in the day of trouble, in the day
of darkness, in the day of physical anguish,
in the day of bereavement; but am speaking
now OF the triviaiity and OF the recklessness
with which the name OF God is sometimes
The whole land Is cursed with it.
A gentleman coming from the far west sat
in the car day after day behind two persons
who were indulging in profanity, and he
made up his mild that he would make
record of their profanities, and at the end Of
two days several sheets of paper were COW
cred with these imprecations, and at the close
of the journey he handed the manuscript to
one OF the persons IN front OF him. "ls II
possible said the man, that we have ut
tered so many profanities the last few
daysr at is,h replied the gentleman.
'Then,n said the man who had taken the
II will never swear again"
But is a comparatively unimportant thing
il man makes record of our improprie-
ties of speech. The more memorable consid
Grafton is that every improper word, every
path uttered. has a record in the book Of
Gods remembrance, and that the day will
come when all our crimes of speech, if unre-
oented of, will lie our condemnation. shall /
not today deal in distractions. / hate alb
,tractions. | am going to have a plain talk
With you, my brother, about a habit that
you admit to he wrong.
The habit grows in the community in the
,act that young people think il manly ~
,wear Little children. hardly able To wall
;traight ON the street. vet have enougb dis.
,inctness of utterance to let Won know tina,