Telegram-herald., 1888-04-09


yarlls. aad Al &c hesa ol great business
establishments v hsa yo4 - ds~u - look
at tAs 4ork af tae sealIs.al1s s4sd you end
t Is Dot seas risas. e2at 10 yoa sayf IL Is
not prarihz. l. ~ The eBpiofer swear
his emplsys Is tempted 10 swear. The man
says "a do1f Know why my employer,
worth 50 50 o. sle0 eoo sao1bi nave @ny
luxury should b. des.ed simply because l
ana poor Bec4ase / am peer and deleadent
ca . days wages, haven't 1 - much right -
swear as be has with kIs large ino0msF'
Employers s~ear, aad that makes 80 many
emptoyss ssearf
The habl1 als0 comes from inffFmity OF
temper There are a gool ulAny peopls Who,
when they are Al peace. have Righteousness
of speee \, bat when angeFed they blaze with
Imprecatlon- Perhaps ali the rest Of the
year they talk IN rgnt larss uags bat now
they pour out the fury of a whole year Ia one
rsd bot paragraph u i've minutes 1 knew
of a maa ~ ho excused himself for the habit,
saying. II 0nly swear once in a great while.
must do that Just % clear myself out.
The habit comes also from the profuse ase
of byUorsls The transition from a bywOrd
watch may De perfectly harmless 70 impre-
cation aud profanity, IS not very large
transition It Is my staFsn and mercy on
me- and good gracious and ''by GeorgeT
ard by JOvei" and you 60 on with that
little while, and then YOU swear These
words. perfectly harmless in themselves, are
next door to imprecation and hlasphemy. A
profilse use Of bywords always ends in pro-
family The habit Is creeping up into the
highest styles OF society. Women have no
patience with fat and unvarnished profanity.
They viii order a man cut OF the parlOr in
dulging IN blasphemy, and yet you viii
sometimes nnd them with fairy fan 10 the
LIP, and under chandeliers which bring no
blush u their cheek, taking on their lips tho
holiest OF names IN utter triviallty.
Why, my friends, the English language is
comprehensive and capable OF expressing al
shades q feeling aud every degree Of en-
ergy Are you happyi Noah Webster viii
give you ten thousand words with which 10
express your exhilarstion- Are you right
eously indignantl There are whole armies
IN the vocabulary, righteous vocabulary
whole armies OF denunciation, and
scorn, and sarcasm, and irony, and carl
caturs, and wrath. You express your
self sgainSt some meannsss or hypocrisy
in all tho oaths that ever smoked up from
and give thousandfold more emphasis of
denunciation TO tns same meanness and the
same hypocrisy in words across which no
slime has ever trailed, and into which the
fires of hell have never shot their forked
tongues-the pure, the innocent God hon
orcd Anglo-Saxon in which Milton sang and
John Bunyan dreamed and Shakespeare
dramAtized
There IS no excuse for profanity when we
have such a magnificent language-such
dow Of good words, potent words, mighty
words, words Just 70 suit every crisis and
every case " hatevsr DO the cause OF it,
profanity is On the increase, aud if you do
not know It, it is because your ears have
been hardened by the din Of iInprecations so
that you are not stirred and moved as you
ought 10 be hy profanities IN these cities
which are enough % bring a hUl ..cane of
tire ike that whieh consumed Sodom.
Do you know that this trivial use Of Gods
neme results IN perjuryl Do you know that
people ~ho take the name OF God On their
hps IN rcckiessness and thoushtlsesness are
fostering the crime OF PERJURY. Make the
nasno Of God q foot ball IA Che community,
AMI Il has 40 power when In court room and
IN legislative assembly it Is employed in
solemn aajuraticnl see the way sometimes
they administer tho oath: 's7hsip you God
Kiss the bookl' Smuggling, which is always
a violation Of the cath, becomes In some
circles grand j0ks. You ssy to a man:
'.How IS iG possible fer you 10 sell these goods
50 very cheapl 1 cant understand IL" "Ahl7
he replies, With twinkle Of the eye, "the
custom house tariff Of these goods isn't as
much as il might be- An cath does not
mean as much - il would were the name of
God used il reverence and IN solemnity.
Why Is 10 that so often jurors render unac-
cogutabie verdicts And judges give unac-
cOuntablo charges and useless railroad
schemes pass IN our state capitals, and there
are most unjust changes made in tariffs
tariff lifted from one thing and put upon
another.
What Is on oathl Anything solernnl Any
thing that calls upon the Almighty, Any
thing that marks an event in mans historyl
On, no. IL Is kissing the book There is no
habit, tell you plainly-and I talk 20 hun
drsds and thousands Of men today who will
thank me for my utteranCe-I tell you, my
brother talk 70 you not professionally but
j1st a. one brother talks to another on some
very important theme tel you there Is no
habit that So depletes a mans nature as the
habit Of profanity. You might as well try
- raise vineyards and orchards on the sides
Of beiching Stromboh as 70 raise anything
good on a heart from which there pours cut
toe scoria II profanity. You may swear
yourself down. you cannot swear yourself
up. When the Mohsmmedan finds piece of
paper he cannot read. Ee puts it aside very
cautiously for fear the name q God may bs
- ~ - -rfs u
other. Nos what is the cure Of this
habstl It is mighty habit. Men have
struggled FOR years % get over r. There are
uen IA this house II God who would give
half their fortune u get rid of it. An aged
man was in the deli-ium of fever. He bad
for many years Hve,i a most upright hfe ard
wss honored in al fhe community. but when
he came into the delrium q this fever he
was fail Of iriurecation and profanity. and
they could not underafand it After b. came
q his right reason he explained r. he said:
when I wss young man vas very pro-
fzne. 7 conquered the habit but I bad %
struggle al through life. You ha~ent fer
forty years heard me- sa7 an improper word.
IN. it has been an awful struEss. The tiger
- chsiueri. bur he is alive yet
II you would gst rid of this habit. 7 want
voa. my friends 50 dveH upon tbe useless
ness Of it Did voliev of osshs ever start a
heavv tcaif Dia they ever extirpsfe mean
rass from a cusfofueri Dis they ever coliset
a bad deitf pd ghey ever c;Ers a esothachef
Did thsy ever ssop the tV1uge q tae rheu-
saatiSrnl Did theT sver help Ycu forward
enc step n tn rigat tirectonf Corss uev.
seli sis. Ve ~ho have bad tae most experi-
saes ia this habit. how nurh have yoa r7aSs
Gus q ltl Five teoaSsni ioiiers ~ 81 Vsgr
hfsl No One thousandf Nc 01e hun
a1-etf No Cne doi.ari NJ Oae cents