Milford chronicle., 1902-10-17

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love their father or mother or wife or |
or you love your child? Did |
you ever stop to think that by your |
profanity you are dishonoring the |
name Of that Christ for whom those |
men and women, If necessary, would |
be willing to die? Have you a right to |
insult their Christ's name any more |
than they have a right to insult your
child? Oh. my disappearing brother, l |
called you a cruel coward. l take it |
all back 1 take that statement back, |
because you may have sinned thought
lessly. | cannot believe that you have
deliberately intended to do this cruel
thing. In the past you have not real
lied the enormity of the injustice
which by the public habit of profanity
you are doing against some Of your fel-
low men. You are so kind hearted you
would not hurt a dog Or a cat Surely
after this you will cease to use BIAS
phemous words in public and not fur
Their cut and lash into the bleeding
hearts Of your Christian brothers and
sisters with the sharp, merciless i'm
piety which has heretofore proceeded
from your profane lips.
A Cruel and Foolish Habit.
Profanity is not only a cruel, but
also a very foolish, habit. My profane
brother, can you cite me one instance
in all your life when the indulgence in
the habit of swearing helped you in
the least2 Did the stone over which
you stumbled get out Of your way and
apologize to you because you cursed
It? Did the winds ever abate when
you were crossing the seas because you
blasphemed them? Did your employ
ees ever love you better or work for
you harder because you lost your tenn
per and hurled at them n whole lorna
do Of oaths? Did your horse ever drive
better because you swOre at him until
you were red in the face? Did the
blood stop flowing when you cut your
finger merely because you made the
air sulphurOus with your denunciatory
imprecations? Nor you answer Il
cannot think of one good result that
ever came from the evil habit of pro
family. 1t is such a foolish habit that
l sometimes wonder why God does not
let the sticks and the stones and the
dumb brutes have power of speech to
rebuke me, as he once bade the long
cared beast of burden open his mouth
and speak to the quick tempered and
unreasonable prophet Of old. ] ought
to have better sense"
And yet this evil habit of profanity
would be absolutely ridiculous and
ludicrous If 1t were not so heinOus in
its results. We have read how one Of
the kings of old in order to prove that
he was master of the seas as well as Of
the lands ordered his soldiers to come
down to the seashore and with whips
lash the waves as they tumbled upon
the beach, and when we read Of that
royal order we have laughed at the
kings actions as those of a mailman
and Of an egOtistic, cracked Drained
person. Wherever we have noted the
imbecile act of an unbalanced mind
we have compared 1t to the insane am
billions of the hero of the celebrated
Spanish romance which Cervantes
wrote. But were the picture of a king
fighting the waves with whips and
| lashes or the escapades of a Don Quix-
ote ever more ridiculous and imbecile
| than the act of a great, big, strong
man cursing q stone merely because
his toe stubbed against it or swear
ing at the axle merely because the
| grease ran dry or blaspheming the
iron head of hammer merely because
he, as a carpenter was clumsy fingered
and hit the end of his thumb instead
of the nail in the plank? Was ever q
sight more ridiculous, If there was moi
eternal misery in its outcome, than q
man standing at the gate Of an ele
waited depot cursing the train and wish
ing that its platform wheels and glass
windows and wooden seats might bC
consumed in the fires of an inferno
merely because he was too lazy to ge
up in time for breakfast to catch tha
elevated express which would hav,
landed him at his office in time t,
meet the important business appoint
ment? ! tell you there is something
weak about a mans head who will con
tinually swear at everybody and every
thing. There is something soft abou
his brain as well as something yer,
sinful about his heart.
Profanity From Deprnved Hearts.
Profanity is n mOnstrous habit.
either comes from q totally deprave
heart, because that heart wishes t
condemn fellow human being to tn
awful agOnies of an eternal condemns
J ton, or else it teaches the users of pre-
r fame words to have an utter cOntemr
; for the name of God and for his con
l I mandments.
Blasphemer, have you ever stoppe
: to consider what would be the effect c
= your profane words by which you col
4 denim your fellow men if they were II
orally carried out? Have you ev,
stopped to consider that when you as
>. God to condemn your fellow men
p the internal regions you express a
!. sire that through all the coming ag
= they will suffer greater torture th1
ever a human victim suffered upon Il
!. | operating table, under a surgeon
. knife, when an@sthetics could not
i. administered? You express a desi
!, that they shall be thrown into st
- lake of fire and birthstone, where t
y beast and the false prophet are al
;, shall be tormented day and night
q ever and ever" You express a desi
o by your profane oaths to see humi
Y beings suffer as Mark Antony Al
n Cleopatra commanded them to stuff
h when, at the banquet table, this gull
n. merciless twain ordered poison to
a administered to their slaves and pr
,r Oners so that they might witness tn
n commissions in the throes Of an avn
IL death.
ST But" answers some blasphem
RS "you know just as we'll as that tn,
as is not one man out of q thousand W
is ever means what he says when
n blasphemes. His prOfane oaths
he mere ordinations. They come fir
he the lip and not from the heart" Tn
DE- my brother, there is only one Otl
III deduction which can come from
Of use of this evil habit. Either you
led a profane man wish to condemn Y,
be- brother to eternal misery OF you
let lacking in reverence to God, which
as precisely the attitude condemned
all this commandment. Either you
up spise your fellow men or else you
ear spise the name of your Creator ;
ard your King. There is no other outcC
rst to these two extremes. Either you
the cursing your fellow man or else
uf- are hooking your divine Maker.
he The Beginnings of Profanity.
the The profane habit is to be drea
md because it is often the outgrowth