Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-10-18

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comes to, hit him again little harde
than you hit him before, and | wi
stand by and, II necessary, help you.
That spirit which my friend shove
toward the porter who swore at hi
little girls body you. o blasphemer
would show toward any one VIII
would insult the fair name OF pure
noble daughter. whom you devotedl
loved!
Now, my sinful brother, you who ar
addicted to the habit of swearing Il
public, did you ever stop to think tina
nearly always there are Christian mel
and women around you who love th
name Of Jesus Christ more than the.
love their father or mother or wife o
daughter, or you love your child? DiC
you ever stop to think that by you
profanity you are dlshOnorlng tn
name of that Christ for whom thos
men and women, II necessary. woulC
be willing to die? Have you a right t
insult their ChrIsts name any NOR
than they have right to insult you
child? oh. my disappearing brother,
called you cruel coward. take 4
all back. take that statement back
because you may have sinned thought
lessly. cannot believe that you have
deliberately intended to do this crue
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 dog OF a cat. Surely
after this you will cease to use bias
phemous words in public and not fur
ther cut and lash into the bleeding
hearts Of your Christian brothers anc
sisters with the sharp, merciless Inn
piety which has heretofore proceeded
from your profane lips.
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 leastl 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 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? "Now 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 bis 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 madman
and Of an egotistic, cracked Drained
person. Wherever we have noted the
lmbecile act Of an unbalanced mind
we have compared 1t to the insane am
bitions 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 Don Quix-
Ote ever more ridiculous and imbecile
than the act Of a great. big, strong
man cursing stone merely because
his toe stubbed against it or swear
Ing at the axle merely because the
grease ran dry or disappearing the
IRON head OF hammer merely because
l kar oil An0QPOd
and hit the end OF his thumb instead
Of the nail In the plank? Was ever a
sight more ridiculous, If there was not
eternal misery In its outcome, than a
man standing at the gate Of an ele-
rated depot cursing the train and wish
ng that its platform wheels and glass
windows and wooden seats might be
consumed In the fires Of an inferno
because he was too lazy to get
lp in time for breakfast to catch that
elevated express which would have
anded him at his Office In time to
meet the important business appoint
nent? ! tell you there Is something
weak about a mans head who will con-
inually swear at everybody and every
Aing. There Is something soft about
lis brain as well as something very
sinful about bis heart.
Profanity From Depraved Hearts.
Profanity is monstrous habit 1t
either comes from a totally deprayed
ieart, because that heart wishes to
condemn a fellow human being to the
lwful agonies of an eternal condemna-
ion, or else it teaches the users Of pro-
ane words to have an utter contempt
or the name Of Gou and for his COM
Blasphemer. have you ever stopped
O consider what would he the effect OF
-our profane words by which you con-
lemn your fellow men II they were lit
rally carried out? Have you ever
topped to consider that when you ask
iod to condemn your fellow men to
be Internal regions you express a de-
Ire that through all the coming ages
hey will suffer greater torture than
yer human victim suffered upon the |
perating table, under surgeons |