Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-09
go to the other. Now, what is the cure
Il this habit?

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1T Is MIGHTY HABIT.
Men have struggled for years TO get over
II. There are men in this house OF God
who would give half their fortune TO get
rid CT 1t. IA aged man was in the delir-
Jun OF fever. h had for many years
lived most upright life sn0 WIS honored
in ali the community; out when ne came
into the delirium Of this fever he was full
OF imprecation and profanity, ard they
could not understand 1t. After he came
to his right resscn he explained 1t. He
ssid: when 1 WAS young msn was
very profsne. conquered the habit, but
I had to struggle all through life. You
haven't for forty years heard me ssy an
| improper word, but it has been an awful
struggle. The tiger is chained, but ne Is
alive yet"
II you would get rid Of this habit, 1
want you, my friends, to dwell upon the
uselessness of it. Did volley Of uaths
ever start s heavy load? DID they ever
extirpats meanness from customer
Did they ever collect e bad debt?
Did they ever cure tooth.cbe?
Did they ever stop the tWirge
OF the rheumatism? Did they ever help
you forward one step in the right direc
|
| had The most experience in tAis habit,
how muCn have you made out of it? Five
| thousand dollars in all your life?. No.
One thousand? No. One hundred? No.
| One dollar? No. Oae cent? No. II
/: the habit be so utterly useless, away with
It.
But you say: 81 have struggled to
overcome the habit long while, and l
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gled in your own strength, my brother.
II ever q man wants God, 1t is in such a
crisis of his history. God alone By His
grace can emancipste you from that trou-
| BILE. Call upon Him day and night that
you msy be delivered from this crime.
| Remember also in the cure OF this hsbi:
that 1t 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
1T MAKES MAN MISERABLE
for eternity. There Is not sin in all the
catalogue that is so often peremptorily
and suddenly punished in this world IS
the sin of profanity. There Is not city
or village but can give an Illus
tration of a man struck down at
the moment OF Impression. couple
OF years ago, briefly referring to this in
sermon, gave some instances in which
God had struck swearer5 dead at the mo
ment OF tDeir profanity. That sermon
brought to me from many parts OF this
land and other lands statements OF SINH
lar csses of instantaneous visitation from
God upon blasphemers. My opinion IL
that such csses occur somewhere every
day, but for various reasons hey are mo-
reported.
In Scotland q club assembled every
week for purposes of wickedness, sno
!, there was competition as to which coulC
use the most horrid Oath, and the msI
who succeeded was to be president OF tht
club. The competition went on. A man
uttered an cath which confounded all HI!
comrades, aud he was made president o
! the club. His tongue began to swell ,ant
it protruded from the mouth, and n
could not draw il in, and he died, AM
the physicians said: "rhts Is th'
/ strangest thing we ever saw; we neve
saw any account in the books like unto it
we can't understand it." I understand
1t. He cursed God and died.
, At GatskIll, N. Y, group OF men stoo'
In blacksmith's shop during q violen
thunder storm. There was crash o
|
One man said: "Why, don't see wins
out in front OF the shol
and defy the Almighty. 1 am no
, afraid OF lightning" And he laid wage
on the subject. and he went out, an
shook his fist at the heavens, crying
"Strike, if you dare!" and instantly
HE FELL UNDER BOLT.
| i'm IN q
; it? Oh, no. He cursed God and died.
Oh, my brother, God willnot allow thl
sin to go unpunished. There are style
, of wri Ing wtih manifold sheets, go that
man writing on one leaf writes cles
through ten, fifteen, or twenty sheets
! and so every profanity we utter goe
right down through the leave
of the book of Gods remem
brance. It is no exceptions
sin. Do you suppose you could coun
the profanitles of last week-the profani
ties of office, store, shop, factory? The
!, cursed God, they cursed His word, the
= cursed His only begotten Son.
,, One morning, on Fulton street, IS
! was passing along, heard 8 man swea
by the name of Jesus. My hair lifted
!, My blood ran cold. My breath caught
My foot halted. Do you not suppose tia
= God is aggravateo2 Do you not suppos
that God knows about il? Dionysiu
!, used to have 8 cave in which his culprit
|. were incarcerated, and be listened st tn
L top OF that cave, and he could hear ever
, groan, he could hear every sign, and b
could hear every whisper, OF those VIII
. were imprisoned. He was tyrsnt. Go
= is not tyrant; but He bends over thi
= world and He hears everything-sver
voce OF prsise-svery voice OF impreca
:, ton. He hears it sll. The eaths seer
to die on the sir, but they have eterns
echo. They come back from the ages t
come.
Listen! Listeni "All blasphemers shs
= have their place in the lake which burnet
S with fire and birthstone, which is The sec
3 ond death" And II, according to tn
= theory OF some, G man commits in tn
: next world the eins which he COMMITTEES
2 in this world-if unpsrdoned, unregen
i erated-think Of q mans going on ours
ing in the name Of God to all eternity
THE HABIT GROWS.
t You start with small oath, you vii
! come to the large oath. IseW man di