El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-30

brethren, swear not, neither by heaven
| neither by earth, neither by any other
oath. Lest ye fall under Judgment
The speaker said. why do men swear:
take much brains, and it certai ply Is
not very high trait OF character.
| Swearing grstiheS no sense and yields
no profit, aad yet how many people
swear. Go into the street cars, smok-
irg rooms or railway trains, barber
| shops, pass along the street corner of
the professional loafer and hear men
roll out their vulgarity and profanity.
This is a deformity in any character.
always shows lack of reverence for
sacre d things, disregard for the feel
! iugs of Others, and that the judgment
is controlled by the passions. 1t is the
| language of the bar-roOm, thieves,
jails, and yet many men who otherwise
have good stuff in them swear.
Men say it don't hurt any one to
| swear, and that it is only habit.
| Does it not hurt man to destroy all
the fine sentiment in him? Can a man
sweep out OF his life ali his sacredness
for God and be as good man as he
fore? Doesn't it mean any thing for a
man to lose his reverence for sacred
things and finally have all the temper
taken out of his honor? If men would
only swear with their heads in bung
hole or their mouths tied up with
towel, they would not hurt others by
their profanity. Yet men go spewipg
out their oaths everywhere. When
man looks at the honor of the thing he
he has no more right to swear IN my
ear than he has to insult my sister.
Anything that destroys a mans fine
moral feelings destroys reverence for
sacred things and makes him so bold
as to disreg ard the feelings of others.
takes the flavor from real manhood.
1t takes but little culture to respect
others feelings. Every man has rights
in a crowd. Gods name and Chrlst's
name are sacred to millions of people
and he who takes these names in vain
and shocks the whole moral
feeling and nervous system of men
who love God and Jesus Christ
is vulgar fellow. Men say they can t
stop swearing. They can if they will.
They don't swear at church. They
don't swear at funerals Or around the
ia bles of refinement. Men don't swear
| by their dead 1nO'h hers mare or by the
name of their dead friends whom they
revere. If they revered God or Christ
they would not swear in their names.
| Men say. oh Mr. so and so swears
General Blank of the northern army
used to swear. Well, if General Bi ank
| has big wart on the end of his nose
why should any one else want a wart
on MS nose. II ScneTdl d. dnh SWedrS.
| so much the worse for his character.
| Women also, by too often using
coarse slang, drift into profanity.
Young women don't think how their
coarse speech sounds. SAILING leads to
coarse speech, ard thus to Il holiness
which disregards the feelings of others.
| Bye and bye the fine edges of tkeir
| seq timeut is worn of, and the fragrance
of sweetness of womanbood is gone.
Coarseness of speech leads to coarse
ness in conduct everytime. Refined
speech has much to do with making
refined character.
| plead with you to be true to your
best auhood and womaphood. A
clean mouth and clean tongue. A
true character needs no vouchers. God
deserves your reverence aud love and
Jesus our saviour-ah, we need him
now to save, and bye and bye to lead us
to glory. Don't joke or talk frivolously
of what l have said tonight; just as
though profanity did not shrivel mems
souls
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall worlds famine feed.
Speak truly. and each word OF thine
Shall be fruitful seed.
| Act truly, and thy life shall be
| A great and noble creed.