Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-19

Christ are every day r2kIlI lrrCS Grently
ON the lips? Profane swearing is as
mach forbidden by the law as theft or
arson or murder, yet who executes it?
Profanity is worse than theft OF arson
or murder, for these crimes are attacks
on humanity-that is an attack on God.
This country is recruitment for bias
phemy. A man travelling in Russia was
supposed to be clergyman. 'Why do
you take ne to be clergyman" said
the man ooh, said the Russian, call
other Americans swear" The crime is
multiplying III intensity. God very Of
ten shows what he thinks Of it, but for
the most part the fatality is hushed up.
Among the Adirondacks [ met the fu-
neral procession Of a man who two days
before had fallen under flash of light
ming while Boosting after a Sunday of
work in the fields that he had cheated
God out of one day anyhow, and the
man who worked with him on the same
Sabbath is still living, but helpless
invalid. under the same fash.
God Rebukes.
Years ago. in a Pittsburg prison, two
men were talking about the Bible and
Christianity, and one of them, Thomp-
son by name, applied to Jesus Christ a
very low and vilIainous epithet, and as
he was uttering it, he fell. A physician
was called, but no help could be given.
After day lying with distended pupils
and palsied tongue, he passed out of
this world. In a cemetery in Sullivan
county, in New York state, are eight
headstones in a line and all alike, and
these are the facts: In 1861 diphtheria
ragged in the village and physician
was remarkably successful in curing
his patients So confident did he become
that he boosted that no case of diph-
liberia could stand before him and final
" defed Almighty God to produce a
case Of diphthe1ia that he could not
cure His youngest child soon after
took the disease and died, and one child
after another until all the eight had
died Of diphtheria. The blasphemer
challenged Almighty God, and God ac-
copied the challenge. Do not think that
because God has been silent in your
case, 0 profane swearer, that he is dead.
Is there nothing now in the peculiar
feeling of your tongue ornothing in the
numbness of your brain, that indicates
that God may come to avenge your BIAS
phemies or is already avenging them?
But these cases have noticed, [ believe,
are only few cases where there are
hundreds Families keep them quiet to
avoid the horrible conspicuity Physi-
clans suppress them through profess
sional confidence. 1t is q very, very,
very long roll that contains the names
Of those who died with blasphemies on
their lips.
Still the crime rolls on, up through
parlors, up through chandeliers with
lights all ablaze, and through the pic
tured corridors of clubrooms, out
through busy exchanges where oath
meets oath and down through all the
haunts Of sin, mingling with the rat
thing dice and cracking billiard balls.
and the laughter of her who hath for
gotten the covenant of her God, and
round the city and round the continent
and round the earth q seething, boiling
surge filings its hot spray into the face
of long suffering God. And the ship
captain curses his crew and the master
builder his men and the hack driver his
horse, and the traveller the stone that
bruises his foot or the mud that soils
his shoes or the defective timepiece that
gets him too late to the rail train. [ ar
raign prOfane swearing and blasphemy,
two names for the same thing, as being
one Of the gigantic crimes of this land,
and for its eXti1patiOn it does seem as
if it were about time for God to arise.
Wine When Red.
Then look for moment at the evil of
drunkenness. Whether you live in
Washington or New York or Chicago
or Cincinnati or Savannah or Boston or
in any Of the cities of this land, count
up the saloons on that street as COM
pared with the saloons five years ago
and see they are growing far out of
proportion to the increase of the popu-
lation. You people who are so precise
and particular lest there should be some
imprudence and rashness in attacking
the rum traffic will have your son some
night pitched into your front door dead
drunk or your daughter will come home
with her children because her husband
has, by strong drink, been turned into
demoniac. The drink iend has despoil-
ed whole streets of good homes in all
our cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on
the funeral pyre Of strong drink! Fasten
tighter the victims Stir up the flames!
Pile on the corpses! More men, women
and children for the sacrifice! Let us
have whole generations on fire Of evil
habit, and at the sound of the cornet,
flute, harp sackbut, psaltery and dulci
mer let all the people fall down and
worship King Alcohol, or you shall be
cast into the fiery furnace under some
political PLATFORM
indict this evil as the regicide, the
the patricide, the matricide,
the uxoricide, of the century. Yet under
what innocent and delusive and mirth-