Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-10-13

GOu TO condemn your IelIOW men to
the Internal regions you express a de-
sire that through all the coming ages
they will suffer greater torture than
ever human victim suffered upon the
operating table, under a surgeons
knife, when anRsthetics could not be
administered? You express a desire
that they shall be thrown into 1.-The
lake of fire and birthstone, where the
beast and the false prophet are and
shall be tormented day and night for
ever and ever" You express a desire
by your profane oaths to see human
beings suffer as Mark Antony and
Cleopatra commanded them to suffer,
when, at the banquet table, this guilty,
merciless twain ordered poison to be
administered to their slaves and pris-
oners so that they might witness then.
commissions in the throes of an awful
death.
But" answers some blasphemer.
"you know just as well as that there
is not one man out of thousand who
ever means what he says when he
blasphemes. His profane oaths are
the lip and not from the heart Then,
my brother, there is only one other
deduction which can come from the
use of this evil habit. Either you as
a profane man wish to condemn your
brother to eternal misery or you are
lacking in reverence to God, which is
precisely the attitude condemned in
this commandment. Either you de-
spise your fellow men or else you de-
spise the name of your Creator and
your King There is no other outcome
to these two extremes. Either you are
cursing your fellow man or else you
are hooking your divine Maker.
The Beginnings of Profanity.
The profane habit is to be dreaded
because it is often the outgrowth of
seemingly very harmless beginnings
! The blood curdling oaths heard in the
home of the rich man and among the
so called respectable members of So
ciety are not, as a rule, born among
the saloons and the outcasts. They
were not once the inhabitants of the
slums and the places of wassail and
were fostered in the parlors of Chris
tan homes and in the weekday school
rooms and even in the Sunday school
rooms attended by Christian children.
These germs of the most horrible of
profane oaths were once the, exclama-
tons and calculations and the slang
expressions so commonly used by la
dies and children upon our streets.
They are the by Georges" the "By
Graciouses," the "By This" and "By
That's" and the "By Other Things"
They are the CALCULATIONS which are
used today by many people who con-
slider themselves educated and polite
and refined
Profanity can grow from seemingly
very harmless beginnings. Therefore it
is the duty of all Christian parents not
only to refrain from the use of such
unnecessary and absurd Explanations
as those just quoted. but they should
instill into their children the right use
Of the English language The Anglo
Saxon tongue is noble tongue. 1t is
especially rich in vehement. emphatic
expressive and, if might use the eX-
preston, sledgehammer words. power.
full enough to annihilate any foe. In
its broad sweep of denunciatory words
the English language is unexcelled by
any language. Therefore. Christian par
ents, in the education of your children
you should teach them never to use
slang. You should teach them that
slang is only the immature child which
will grow up into the destroying mon
ster called Profanity. You should
teach them that God hurls his con
formations at slang as well as at tbt
hideous monster called Profanity whel
Christ says: Swear not at all; neither
by heaven, for it is Gods throne, MOI
by the earth, for it is his footstool
neither by Jerusalem, for it is the cit!
of the great King. Neither shalt thol
swear by thy head. because thou cans
not make one hair white or black. Blu
let your communication be, Yea, yea
nay, nay: for whatsoever is more thar
these cometh of evil" Could any de
nunciation be more vehement agains
the use of slang common among on
women and children and also anon!
the men than those words of Jesu
Christ?
Suicidal Habit.
Profanity is a suicidal habit becaus
it runs directly counter to the express
ed commands of God. Albert Barne
once wrote, '"Thepe is not in the uni
verse more cause for amaZement thai
Gods forbearance in his dealings wit
the blasphemer." But that God vii
ultimately punish those who take hi
name in vain there is no doubt. TIL
Bible distinctly asserts it. And tina
God sometimes instantly Furnishes tn
sin of blasphemy is also unquestioned
Incident upon incident can be cited t
illustrate this fact
Some years ago two English soldier
in the Chatham barracks gathere
some of their comrades about them a
. judges. Then these two men made
wager Then each started out to fin