The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-08-08
of the city bears his honored name.
Since 1860 he has been archbishop of
Valencia.
Honor the Ho,v Name.

Honor the Holy Name.
One of our immensest American in
dustries is profanity. The whole "a
hours of every day in the year, in
every mood of man, and even woman
and child, the sacred names of God,
Jesus, Jesus Christ are taken in vain,
and wickedly as mere explosives and
intersections and in oaths and curses.
Il say to YOU" said the Lord Jesus
Christ, ''swear not at ALL" but at
every turn we hear swearing, not
merely by something relating or be-
longing to God, but by God Himself
and by His Divine Son, our Savior.
What Il business for the Almighty to
have to be witness and warrant for
any rash, foolish, false, indecent,
wicked assertion or promise or threat!
Then God is all love and mercy. His
main impulse is to save. Twas to
save all, and let no one be damned
or lost, that He sent His well-beloved
Son, and that the Son came and SUBJ
mitted to the humiliations of our
nature and the brutalities of His pas
sion and death. And yet, by the pro-
fame, ut every turn, God is credited
with having damned, or is even called
on to damn, that is, to do what is
most distasteful and repulsive to Him.
Anyone can see how senseless and alb
surd is this practice of the profanity
of speech. 1t is condemned by their
own better judgment, it is habit
they have copied from others of the
baser sort. 1t is bad form and lower
ing and barred where gentlemanliness
is in order. The freight conductor,
for instance, must quit it if he would
be promoted to Il passenger. 1t so
offends the conscience or at least the
tastes of many, that it easily units
a man for even il private position But
worse infinitely is its harm to the
soul. its abuse of the divine faculty
of speech, it's meanness, baseness, bad
ness before Almighty God and it's re-
peated provocations of His most lust
resentment. If of every idle word
they speak men must give an account,
how shall they account for their oaths
and curses? How if when they come.
as come they must surely, some day,
to need God supremacy, when only He
can save them, He keep Himself to al
most the only use they had for Him
in their days of health and strength,
and let them taste what they have so
often and so vehemently invoked?
The fittingest end of such banners
and abusers of the Lord is to be
damned and cast forever from His
presence. Someone has said that pro-
family comes from poverty of words,
from a scant vocabulary The "hot
air. emitted in those reckless oaths
never in the least strengthens or en-
phasiZes any mans bare word, the
contrary. And less than blank is the
praising, or vituperative value of
"God-damned.'' Why then advertise
SO gratuitously your poverty of
speech, your poor command of words? ?
Remedy it rather by observing others.
correct and copious speech, reading
good literature and studying Your die
tionary. Fine yourself ut least a pen
ny toward some work of charity every
time You "break." and the material
loss. and the spiritual gain will might
lily work together to correct the bad
habit. This prevalent and abominable
profanity it is for decent people and
good Christians not only to avoid but
to try. as they can. to check by re-
monstrance and rebulse. and to atone
for and repair. by express devout i'll
vocations and honoring of the sacred
Names. This is the object of the great
Holy Name Society. to which all Cath
Ollie men ought to belong. Its men,
bers solemnly promise to honor the
name of God and Jesus and the Lords
Day and meet together few times
yearly for General Communion and
the public recitation of the Litany of
Jesus
Nor voice can sing, nor heart can
frame.
Nor can the memory find.
n sweeter sound than thy best name
o Savior of mankind.