Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-10-30

world burns to ashes, I shan have
foundation % enduring a. the GOD who
made me. Let us stady them,
The first command is, "Thou shall
have no other Gods before me-" What
10 mans gods Anthing he thinks
more Of than God. With some It is
money. Many q man sacrinces princi-
pie, sacrifices honor, sacrifices obedience
TO God, to gain q few dirty dohars.
Money is Just as truly ss their god; ;for II
they would hang 5000 or sio0.Oe bin
on the wall and pray TO 1t before they
get in bsd.
Many . man worships whiskey. He
thinks more Of whiskey bottle, or q
keg Of beer, than he does. about God.
Manya man is sacrificing his BRAIN
power, his business capscity, the re-
spect Of his fellow citizens. his wife, his
children, and his soul for whiskey.
There are men in thiscomnaaity who,
iithey we're to die tonight. you weuld
not need to preach their funeral sermon.
Put them in cofin, then 60 and get q
bottle Of whiskey andput It on the coffin,
That would tell the story Of his life.
All they lived for was TO drink booze.
There are men In this community who
II they were were to die tonight you
would not need to preach a funeral SER
mon. Put them In their comm, get an
old deck Of cards, and faro bank, and
some red, white and blue chips, put them
on the coffin. and that will tel the story
Of that mans life-whst he lived for.
There are man In this community who
II they were TO die tonight you would
not need TO preach sheir funeral sermon.
Put their sinking carcus in cofin, and
huat up the women with whom they
have pronigated, and iocked upon II as
amusment for their passion and lust.
and lead In the girls whose lives they
have blighted, and whose honor they
have torn to shreds, and let them stand
there and rain down their tears-that
tells the story Of the low-down libertines
life. He has just lived to gratify his
lust and passions.
will skip the Second commandment,
and come TO the Third, which is "Thou
shah not take the name II the Lord
thy God in vain; for the Lord win not
hold him guiltless that taketh his name
In vain." How much profanity In the
world 70 dayl Old men curse, middle
aged men curse, young men curse, boys
curse. Men not .saly break this COM
mandment, but they think 1t light
matter. Ask some men about being a
christian, and they begin 81 am not
very bad man. I don't steal; l have
never killed anybody; have never
committed adultery, oh, I do swear
sometimes" They regard It hight
matter, but God does not regard It 90.
"The Lord will not hold him guiltless
that taketh his name in vain."
II there is any one SIN which shows
that the~ev foundation Of man's
character is.rotten II is the sin Of pro-
family. What is the only foundation
for sound character? 1t 10 the rever-
ence for God and when that is gone the
foundation Of character Is gone.
Friend, brother, don't swear, and for
the following reasons.
1. It's ungentlemanly, II you are 3
. profane swearer, you lack chat much
Of being q gentleman, / don't care what
Else you may be.
Q. II is indecent, Il is not ht for
human ears. A mother with her little
son, was on the train one day, two men
were sitting in front Of her, they we're
pouring out their foul eAths. She pnt
her fingers into the ears Of her little son
to keep sim from hearing their awful
profanity. The little fellow got restless
and would not allow her fingers in his
ears longer. She got mp and said;
"Men, my little son won't allow me 70
hold my fingers in his ears, and would
not have him to hsar all this talk for the
world; It is shs heigth Of imprudsnce for
you 10 b sitsing among strangers, and
pouring out your profanity in the ears
Of people,. And she Vas right. You
talk 10 me about . gentleman doing q
thing like thati
The raiireaa companies have provided
baggage c.rs. cypress cars. dining cars.
smoking cars, and slsspine cars. They
need Just one othsr, want them 70 put
on oprziag car sor plasknssthed tras-
clers. n
8. II 10 feptisf, some boysswers
! lstAndug on . street sornsf, and Just q
one swors : preacher xss passing. H
put his hand on his shoaisss and said
lHYouag men, Dent curse that fellow
II Is iuss IKE holding eoal q nre a
your hand and pressing u hight spd
saying, ssoai o. tre.' burn some ons
le'ss.
Sons one has szid vhsn The devil
waats = estsh good man he baiss hil
Ihook snd covers u up. hst whAp b
n.nss 70 cstch profans swesrer. -