The record-union., 1892-04-02

! justify you in telling it to somebody else.
| Ii you repeat the false story it shows that
ne was slanderer and you fool. Thou
shalt noI Dear 1alse witness against thy
neighbor.
Think of the sorrow caused by the
tongue OF SANDER. The reputation of the
whltest saints has been blackened and
fouled by the vomitings OF the scandal
monger. BE thou chaste as ice, as pure
as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.''
THINK OF friendships severed, lives
| clouded, hearts broken, by this bad
tongue, and resolve before God that you
will never lend your tongue to such dew
illsh uses. There is no serpent's tongue
| so yenomous, no assassin's dagger so
deadly as the three-forked back biting
tongue of SANDER. IT'S SANDER
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose
! tongue
/ OutVenoms all the worms of Nile whose
Rides on the posting winds and doth belle
All corners OF the world, kings, queens, and
states,
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave,
1hls NlperouS Islander enters.
| THE WORD DEVIL" ITSELF MEANS SLAM
DERER OR TRADUCER.
There Is another bad tongue that needs
/ TO be held, or rather cut out More de-
grading than the profane tongue; more
criminal than the lying tongue; more
! pNoliASIIi ILdlI Tic SidIlucTOuS tongue,
/ is the obscene tongue. The old prophet
described this vice when he said: Il
/ dwell among people of unclean lips"
Some OF you may say to me, go out into
/ the dives and saloons Of the city and in
Weigh against this foul vice, but do not
offend the ears polite of a respectable
congregation like this by insinuating that
any OF them need to be reproved of this
! form of speech. My knowledge OF men
and life compels me to believe that this
foul tongue is sometimes found among
/ people protesting high responsibility.
/ have known educated men, men of good
! standing in society, who take delight in
! salacious stories and lewd jokes. An
/ incident seasoned with smut they roll
under their tongue as a sweet morsel.
! The ribald song and indecent suggestion
/ IS music in their unclean ears. There
are men who are skilled in the vocabu-
larry Of Sodom. Their breath is foul with
1 the eXhalations that rise from the stencil
! ful sewer pits of perdition. Their
| tongues, like the troubled sea, cast up
mire and fifth. With satanic glee they
/ pour the leperous distillment Of their be-
! fouIed imagination into the ears of inno-
cent youth. They blight and blast young
! souls who, but for their baseness, would
have remained forever pure. AS the
! breath Of an infected garment engenders
and spreads disease, so the slightest con-
tact with such
POLLUTED, PUTRID MINDS
Imparts an unholy faint, which in time
pervades and vitiates the entire moral
nature. If one vice more than another
needs the DISCRIMINATING whip of an
archangel it is the vice of lewd, ribald
! speech. man had better be struck
with eternal and incurabe dumbness
than open his mouth III the beastly Ian
/ gGage of Beelzebub. Young men as you
/ Will one H1V stand hafnpa l,i 70
throne OF Judgment, and rs you hope to
enter through the gates of pearl into that
abode OF bliss where nothing that detleth
ever enters, resolve tonight, and now,
as Daniel resolved, that thou wilt not
'detile thyself," but with Gods help will
! keep innocency and know and show
how divine is the blush of modesty on
! young human cheeks"
a little coupiet that my father taught
me when boy pass on 10 you:
! lmmodest worGs admit of no defense,
| FOR want OF decency is want OF sense
! Therefore, ''let your speech be always
! seasoned with saltP--the emblem of
purity HE that loveth pureness OF
heart for the grace of his lips the King
! shall be his friend" Friendship with
| Christ means pureness of heart and pure
ness Of speech
Time will not permit me to speak of the
/ profane tongue. Irreverence is one of
the vices OF this age. The lack Of rever-
/ ence is lack of manliness. The true
! gentleman will never be guilty of pro-
/ family. To take GODS name in vain is a
vulgarity that no selt-respecting man
! VIII sink to. The man who will bias
! pheme the inettable name of God will lie,
! will steal, will murder. He who has
/ no reverence for God is not likely to have
respect for man. The profane man is
not fit to be trusted with a woman's love
or with banks money. Oh, brothers,
KEEP SOMETHING SACRED.
Refrain from testing on holy themes. Re-
! fuse to scott at things divine. Cultivate a
devout and reverent spirit. Remember
| the prayer Christ taught us to say, "Our
/! Father which art i'll heaven, hallowed be
Thy name" AS you keep the portrait Of
| your Sainted mother from vulgar hands.
keep sacred the name that angels utter
with alteration. ''Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the
Lord will not hold him guiltless that tax eth
love in the heart of God, your Savior,
for you. Why then will you impiously
profane that dear name OF use it to call
| down curses on your brother man and
on yourself?
1t chills my blood to hear the Blest
| Supreme Ruler appealed to on each
tritling theme.
Maintain your rank vulgarity despise
10 swear is neither brave polite nor wise
close this sermon with the solemn
words of Christ, your Savior: but I
say unto you that every idle word that
men shall speak they shall give account
thereof in the day of Judgment. For bv
thy words thou shalt be justified and by
thy words thou shalt be condemned
Because of this will not each soul present
join with me in the prayer, ''Let the
words of nv month and tho ,,a1;+o{;o,,
Of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight,
o Lord, my strength and my redeemer.'
AN OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG.