Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-13
The Crime Of 8Iasphemy is Accused
for this Life, and Makes a Man
Miserable for Eternity.
aow The Htbls OF Swearing Grows In q
C0mmuRi!y-YGuug People
Thick IL MsuIY,
I'll, Day Will Como When All Our Crimes Of
speesh, IL Unrepepted of, VIII be
Our OondS M nation.
unecial to the GaSotte.

The holy gospel we profess.
After reading appropriate passages OF
scripture the Rev. T. De Witt Talmsge,
y. D., preached on the habit Of cursfng
and swearing. HIS text WAS from the
Rock Of job, Il 10: $50 went Satan
forth from the presence of the Lord ard
emotq Job with sore boils from the sole
n his foot anto his crown. Aud he took
him potsherd to scrape himself
wfth.l; and he sat down among the
ashes. Then said his wife unto him:
Dos. thou still retain thine integrity?
Curse God aud die"
story oriental and marvellous. Job
VAS the richest man in al the east. He
had c.mels 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 fam
ilv raunIon. Oue day Job is thinking OF
his children as gathered together at 3
bspq1et at the elder bro hers 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 now? "Oh," ssys
the messenger, IS foragiDg party of
s,besrs hsve fallen upon the oxen and
tbe asses and destroyed them and butch
cred all the servants except myself"
stand aside. Another messenger run
ming. What is the matter now? son."
sayg the m6n, "the lightning has struck
the sheep and the shepherds, and all the
shepherds are destroyed except myself"
Stand aside. Another messenger run
ming. WHIST is the mater now? "Oa,"
he saws, "the Ch.lde2ns have captured
the camels and slain sill the camel drivers
except myself" Stand aside. Another
messenger running. What IS the matter
now? "Oh," ne SAYS, ga hurricane struck
the four corners OF the tent where your
children were assembled a. the banquet
snd they are sill dead"
But the Chapter OF calamity hGs not
ended. Job was smitten with elephant
asfq, or black leprosy. TumOrs from
hesd to foot-forehesd rigid Tith tuber-
cles-eYelsshes fall out-nCstrils cXCoTi-
ated-volce destruyed-intolers3le exhs-
lstions from the entire body, until with
none to dress his sores, he sits down in
the sshss with nothing but pieces Of
broken pottery to use in
THE SURGERY OF HIS WOUNDS.
At this moment, when he needed all en-
enlargement and all consolation, his
wife comes in, in fret and rage, End
says: "TAts ia intoler&ble. Our prop
ertY gone, our children slain, and noa
you covered up with this loathsome and
disgu1.ng disease. Why don't you
swearir Curse God, and die!"
Al, Job knew right well that swearing
would not cure one OF the tumors Of his
agonized body, would not bring back one
of mis- destroyed csmels, would not re-
store one of his dead children. he knew
that profanity would only make the psin
more unbearable, and the poverty more
distressing, snd the bereavement more
eXcrucisting, But judgiog from the pro
family sbroSd in our day, you might come
to the conclusion that there WAS some
great advantage to be reaped from pro-
family.
Bl.sphemy is all abroad. You hear It
in every direction. The draymsn swear
ing at his csrt, the sewing girl impreca-
ting the tangled skein, the accountant
cuysing the long line OF troublesome fig
ures. Swear rg ~ the store, swearing in
the loft, swearing in the cellar, swearing
on the street, swearing in the factory
Children swear, men swear, women
swesr. Swearing from the rough calling
on the ALMIGHTY in Sthe low restaurant,
clear up to the rccklsss 40, Lord" Of
gllttGriRg dTswing-roOm; and The one is
as much OlAgphemY as the other.
There are times when we must cry out
10 the Lord By reason Of our physical
agony or our mental distress, and that is
n hrr min b nd fpr I'd
the strong Srm Of 8 father. It was no
profanity when James A. Garfield, shot in
the Washington depot, cried out: "My
God, Thst does this mean?" There Is no
profanity in calling cut uOot God In the
cay OF trouble. IN the day OF darkness, in
TEE DAY OF PHYSICAL ANGUISH.
In the day OF bereavement; but l am
speaking n IVY Of the triVisli,Y and of the
recklessness with which the name CT God
Is sometimes managed. The whole land
is cursed with 1t.
A gentleman coming from the far west
sat in the csr day after day behind two
persons who were infulging in profanity,
and he msde up his mind that he would
make record of their pr0fanities, and st
the end of two days several sheets of
psper were covered with these imprecs-
tlons, and at the close of the Journey he
handed the manuscript to one Of the per-
sons in front Of him. "Is it possible"
said the msn, "that we have uttered sn
many profsnities the last few days?"
ut Is" replied the gentleman. "Then,"
said the mSn who had taken the manu-
script, al will never swear again.
Bt it is q comparatively uuimportsnt
thing If man mskes record Of our i'm
proprieties Of speech. The more me-
morSble consideration is that every i'm
proper word, every oath uttered, has re-
cord in the book OF Gods remembrance,
and that the d8y will come when all
our crimes Of speech, II unrepented Of,
will be our condemnation. 1 shall not
to-day deal in distractions. I hate sb-
strsctt0ns. am going to have s plain
talk with you, my brother, shout habit
inst you acmit to be wrong.
The habit grows in community in the
TACT that Young people think 1t manly to
swear. Little children, hardly able to
WALK straight on the street, yet have
enough distinctness of utterance to let
you know that they are damning their
own souls, or Gsmniug the souls of
others. 1t Is an awful thing the first
ume the little feet are lifted to hsve them
set uown on
The BURNING PAVEMENT OF HE'LL.
between sixteen and twenty years OF
age, there is apt to come time when .
young man is as much ashamed cf not
being able to swesr gracefully ss he is of
the dizziness of his first cigar. He has
his hat his hnOf .Dd hys oo,t - 49,, TT.