Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-13

extirpate meanness from customer?
Did they ever collect 8 bad debt7
Did they ever cure q toothache?
Did they ever stop the tWirga
OF the rheumatism? Did they ever help
you forward one step in the right dirsc.
rior? Come now, tell me, We who have
had the most experience in this habit,
how much have y0u made out OF ? Five
thousand dollars ia sill your hfe?. M.
One thousand? No. Oae hundred? No.
One dollar? No. One cent? NJ. II
the hsoi. b. SO utterly useless, sway with
It.
But you say: 81 have struggled to
overcome the hsbit a long while, and l
have not been succas sful." You strug-
gled in your own strength, my brother.
II ever q man wants tod, it is in such
crisis Of his history. God alone by His
grace can emancipate you from that trou
bic. Call upon Him day snd night that
you maY be delivered from this crime.
Remember also in the cure of this habit
That it arouses Gods Indignation. The
Bible reiterates from chapter to chapter,
and verse after verse, the fact that it is
accursed for this life and that
IT MAKES A MAN MISERABLE
for eternity. There Is not sin in sll the
catalogue that is so often peremptorily
and suddenly punished in this world as
the sin of profanity. There is not ; city
or 8 village but csn give an illus
tration of man struck down at
the moment of imprecation. a couple
OF years ago, briefly referring to this in
sermon, gave some instances in which
God had struck sIesrers dead st the mo
ment of tueir profanity. That sermon
brought TO me from many parts Of this
land end other lands statements Of SINH
lar cases of instantaneous visitation from
God upon blasphemers. My opinion is
that such cases occur somewhere every
day, but for various reasons hey are not
reported.
In Scotland q club assembled every
week for purposes of wickedness, and
there was competition as to which could
use the most horrid cath, and the man
who succeeded was to be president of the
cub. The competition went on. man
uttered an cath which confounGed all his
comrades, and he WAS made president of
the club. His tongue began to swell and
it protruded from the mouth, and he
could not draw IL in, and he died, and
the physicians said: "This is the
strangest thing We ever saw; we never
saw shy account in the books like unto it;
we can't understand It," I understand
1t. He cured God and died.
At Catsklll, n. Y, group of men stood
In blacksmith's shop during q violent
thunder storm. There WAS q crash Of
thunder, aud some of the men trembled.
Ore man ssid: "Why, don't SEE what
you are afraid of. l am not afraid to go
out in front Of the shop
and defy the Almighty. 1 am nos
afraid of lightning" And he laid wSger
on the subject, and ne went out, and
shook his fist at the heavens, crying:
"S.rike, if you dare!" and instantly
BE FELL UNDER BOLT.
What destroyed him? Any mystery about
1t? Oh, no. He cursed God and died
On, my brother, God will not allow this
sin to go unpublished. There are styles
Of wri ing tin manifold sheets, so thst a
mau writing on one leaf writes clear
through ten, fifteen, or twenty sheets,
and so every profanity we utter goes
right down through the leaves
OF the book Of Gods remem-
brance. It is no exceptional
sin. Do you suppose you could count
the profsnitles of lsst Week-the profani-
ties OF flee, store, shop, factory They
cursed God, they cursed His word, they
cursed His only begotten Son.
| One morning, on Fulton street, as I
was passing along, heard man swesr
by the name Of Jesus. My hair lifted.
My blood ran cold. My breath caught.
My foot halted. Do you not suppose that
| God is sggravsted2 Do you not suppose
that God knows sbout it? Dionysius
used to have cave in which his culprits
were incarcerated, and he listened at the
top Of that cave, and he could hear every
groan, he could hear every sign, sud he
could hear every whisper, of those who
were imprisoned. He was tyrant. God
is not tyrsnt; but He bends over this
world and He hears everything-every
voice OF praise-eVery voice of imprece-
ton. He hears it sill. The esths seem
to die on the air, but they have eternal
echo. They come beck from the ages to
come.
Listen! Listenl "All blssphemers shall
have their place in the lske which burneth
with fire and birthstone, which is the Sec
ond death" And If, according to the
| theory of some, q man commits in the
next world the sins which he committed
| in this world-if unpsrdoned, urregen-
erated-think of a mans going on ours
| ing in the name of God to all eternity!
TIE HABIT GROWS.
You start with q small oath, you will
come to the large oath. saw man die
with an oath between his teeth. yoltaire
only gradually came to his tremendous
| imprecation; but the habit grew on him