USING AND SWEARINt REV. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES C w.. THE HABIT OF PROFANITY. Titer I No Excuse for -It X.- in AV 'Have 8ucH as Magnificent Languuza. It Comes from Infirmity of Teiojitr and tbe I'rofuse Vo of llyworda. BROOKLYy. April 8. One of tlie Lymns aung at the Tabernacle this worn iiig begins with the words: Bo let our lips and Uvea express The Holy Oospcl wo profesa. After reading appropriate passages of . Keripture, the Kev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D.I)., preached on the habit of cursing and swearing. Ilia text waa from the Book of Job ii, 7, 8 and 9: "So wont Satan forth from the presence of tho Lord, and emote Job with 6oro boild from tho cole of his foot unto hia crown. And ho took him a potsherd to 6crapo himself withal ; and he sat down amonir the ashes. Then paid his wife unto him, Doat thou still retain thin in tcrritv? Curse God, and die." A Btory oriental and marvelous. . Job waa tho richest man in all tho East. lie had camels and oxen and asses and eheep, and, what would have made him rich without anything else, seven sons and three daughters. It was the habit of these children to gather together for fam ily reunion. One day, Job is thinking of his children as gathered together at a banquet at the elder brother's house. While tho old man is Bcated at his tent door, he pees come one running, evident ly from his manner bringing bad news. What is the matter now? "Oh," says the messenger, "a foraging party of Sabeans ha3 fallen upon tho oxen and tho asses, and destroyed them, and butch cred all the servants except myself." Stand aside. Another messenger run ning. What is the matter now? "Oh," Bays the man, "the lightning has struck tho sheep and the shepherds, and all the shepherds are destroyed except myself. Stand aside. Another messenger run nine:. What is the matter now? 4;Oh,' ho says, "the Chaldeans have captured tho camels, and slam all tlie camel cinv ers except myself." Stand aside. An other messenger running. What is the matter now? "Oh," he says, "a hurri cane struck the four corners of tho tent where your cliildren were assembled at the banquet, and thev are all dead. But the chapter of calamity has not ended. Job was smitten with elephanti asis, or black leprosj-. Tumors from lip.nl to foot forehead ridded with tubercles eyelashes fall out nostrils ex coriated voice destroyed intolerable exhalations from tho entiro body, until with none to dress his sores, he sit3 down in the ashes with nothing but pieces of broken ppttery to use in the surgery of lus woutlus.v At tlus moment, wiien ne needed all encouragement, and all con solation, his wife comes in, in a fret and a rage, and says: "This is intolerable. Our property gone, our children slain, and now you covered up with this loath some and disgusting disease. Why don't you swear? Curse God, and die!" Ah. Job knew right well that swearing would not cure one of the tumors of his agonized body, would not bring back one of his destroyed camels, would not re store one of his dead children. He knew that profanity would only make the pain more unbearable and the poverty inoro distressing and tho bereavement more excruciating. But judging from the profanity abroad in our day, you might come to tlie conclusion that there was some great advantage to be reaped from profanity. Blasphemy is all abroad. You hear it in every direction. The drayman swear ing at his cart, the sewing girl imprecat ing the tangled skein, the accountant cursing the long line of troublesome fig ures. Swearing at the 6tore, swearing in the loft, Bwearing in the cellar, swearing on the 6treet, swearing in tho factory. Children swear. Men swear. Women swear. Swearing from the rough calling on the Almighty in the low restaurant elear up to the reckless "Oh, Lord!" of a glittering drawing room ; and the one is &a much blasphemy as tlie other. There are times when we must cry out to the Lord by reason of our physical agony or our mental distress, and that is onlythrowing out our weak hand toward the strong arm of a father. It was no profanity when Jame3 A. Garfield, shot in the Washington depot, cried out: 'JIy God, what does this mean?" Tliero Js no profanity in calling out upon God ia the day of trouble, in the day of dark ness, in the day of physical anguish, in the day of bereavement; but I am speak ing now of the triviality and of the reck lessness with which tlie namo of God Lj sometimes managed. The whole land ia cursed with it. A gentleman coming from the far west gat in the car day after day behind two persons who were indulging in profanity, and lie made up his mind that ha would make a record of their profanities, and ei the end of two days several sheets of paper were covered with these impreca tions, and at the close of the journey ho handed the manuscript to one of the per sons ia front of him. "Ia it possible." said tho man, "that we have uttered so many profanities the last few days?" "It is," replied the gentleman. "Then," said the man who had taken the manu script, "I will never 6wear again." . - But it is a comparatively unimportant thing if a man makes record of our im proprieties of speech. Tho more memor able consideration is that every improper word, every oath uttered, has a record in tjie book of God's remembrance, and that the day will come when all oui crimes of speech, if unrepented of, will be our condemnation. I shall not today deal in abstractions. I hate abstractions, I am going to have a plain talk with you, my brother, about a habit that you admit to be wrong. The habit grows in the community in the fact that young people think it manly to swear. Little children, hardly able to walk straight on the street, yet have enough distinctness of utterance to let you know that they are damning their own souls, or damning the souls of others. It is an awful thing the first time tho little feet are lifted to have them set down on the burning pavement of hell ! Between 16 and 20 years of age there is apt to come a time when a young man is as much asliamed of not being able to swear gracefully as he u of the dizziness ot his- first cigar. lie has hia hat. hia coat of the right pattern, , he can only swear without , and as well as his com a, lu-lieves he ia in tho fashion. i iitjre are young men who walk in an at mosphere of imprecation oaths on their lips, under their tongues, nesting in their shock of liair; They abstain from it in the elegant drawing room, but the street and the club house ring with their pro fanities. -They have no regard for Go', although they have great respect for t! ladies l ily young brother, taero n i manliness in that. The meet ungentl manly thing a man can do is to swear. Fathers foster this great crime. There are parents who are very cautious not to swear in tho presence of their children : in a moment of sudden anger they look around to see if the children are present when they indulge m this habit. Do you not know, oil father, that your child is aware of tho fact that you swear? He overheard vou in tho next room, or 6ome one lias informed him of your habit, He is practicing now. In ten years he will swear a well as you do. Do not, oh father, be under the delusion that you may swear and your son not know it. It is an awful thing to start the habit in a family the father to be profane, and then to have the echo of his example come back from other generations; "so that generations after generations curse the Lord. Tho crime ia also fostered by master mechanics, boss carpenters, those who are at the head of men in hat factories. and in dock yards, and at the head of great business establishments. WThen you go down to look at tho work of tho scaffolding, and you find it is not done right, what do you say? It is not pray ing, is it? The employer swears his em ploye is tempted to swear. The man says "I don't know why my employer, worth $50,000 or $100,000, "should have any luxury I should be denied simply because I am poor. Because I am poor and de pendent on a day's wages, haven't I aa much right to swear as he has with his large income?" Employers swear, and that makes so many employes swear. The habit also comes from infirmity of temper. There are a good many peopl who, when they are at peace, have righteousness of speech, but when an gered they blaze with imprecation. Per haps all the rest of the year they talk in right language, but now they pour out the fury of a whole year in one red hot paragraph of five minutes. I knew of a man who excused himself for the habit, saying: "I only swear once in a great while. I must do that just to clear my self out." Ihe nabit comes also from the pro fuse use of bywords. The transition from a byword which may bo perfectly harmless to imprecation and profanity, is not a very large transition. It is "my stars!" and "mercy on me I and "good gracious!" and "by George!" and "by Jove!" and you go on with that a little while, and then you swear. These vrord3, perfectly harmless in themselves, are next door to imprecation and blas phemy. A profuse use of bywords always ends in profanity. Tho habit is creeping up into tho highest styles of society. Women have no patience with fiat and unvarnished profanity. They will order a man out of the parlor indulg ing in blasphemy, and yet you will some times find them with fairy fan to the hp, ami under chandeliers which bring no blush to their cheek, taking on their hps the holiest of names in utter triviality. Why, my friends, the English language is comprehensive and capable of express ing all shapes of feeling and every de gree of energy. Are you happy, Noah Webster will give you ten thousand words with which to express your exhilaration. Are you righteously indignant, here are whole armies in tho vocabulary, righte ous vocabulary whole armies of de nunciation and scorn, and sarcasm and irony, and caricature and wrath. You express yourself against some meanness, or hypocrisy, in all the oaths that ever smoked up from the pit, and I will come right on after you and give a thousand fold more emphasis of denunciation to the same meanness and the same hypoc risy in worda across which no slimo has ever trailed and into which the fires of hell have never 6hot their forked tongues the pure, the innocent, God honored Anglo-Saxon Li which Milton sang, and John Bunyan dreamed, and Shakspeare dramatized. There is no excuse for profanity when wo have such a magnificent language 6uch a flow of good words, potent words, mighty words, words just to suit every crisis and every case. Whatever bo tho cause of it, profanity is on the increase, and if you do not know it, it is because your ears have been hardened by the din of imprecations 60 that you are not stirred and moved as you ought to be by profanities in these citie3 which are enough to bring a hurricane of fire liko that which consumed Sodom. Do you know that this trivial use of God's name results in perjury? Do you know that )eoplo who take the name of God on their lips in recklessness and thoughtlessness are fostering the crime of perjury? Slake the name of God a foot ball in the community, and. it has no power when ia court room and in legis lative assembly it is employed in solemn adjuration! See the way sometimes they administer the path: "S'help you God kiss tho book!" Smuggling, which is always a violation of the oath, beeomea in some circles a grand joke. You say to a man: "How is it possible for you to sell these goods so very cheap? I can't understand it." "Ah J" he replies, with a twinkle of the eye, "the custom housa tariff of these goods isn't as much as it might be. " An oath does not mean as much a3 it would were the name of God used in reverence and in solemnity. Why is it that so often jurors render un accountable verdicts, and judges give un accountable charges, and useless railroad schemes pass in our state capitols, and there aro most unjust changes mado in the tariffs tariff lifted from oao Jhing and put upon another? What is an oath? Anything solemn? Anything that calls upon the Almighty? Anything that marka pn event in a man's history? Oh, no! It 13 kissing the book! There is no habit, I tell 3-ou plainly and I talk to hundreds and thousands of men to-day who will thank me for my utter ance I tell you, my brother I talk to vou not professionally but just as on brother talks to another on some very important theme I tell you there is no habit that so depletes a man's nature as : the habit of profanity. Yoil uiigbt as on tho'siJea c raise anything t which there poius fanity. You may t you cannot iwc.r ; the lIohaminelai j s; r La' cl.... 1 it " " '' ' r t ti.: , was ia L tiiam of a fever. He had for many years lived a most upright life and was honored in all the community : but when . he came into the delirium of this fever he was full of imprecation and profanity, . and they could not under stand it. After he came to his right reason he explained it. He said: '-'When I was a young man I was very profane. I conquered the habit, but I had to strug gle all through life. You haven't for forty years heard me eay an improper word, but it has been an awful struggle, The tiger is chained, but he is alive yet." If you would get rid of this habit, want you, my friends, to dwell upon the uscledsness of it. Did a volley of oaths ever start a heavy load? Did they ever extirpate meanness from a customer? Did they ever collect a bad debt? Did thev ever cure a toothache? Did they ever stop the twinge of the rheu matism? Did they ever help you for ward one step in the right direction? Come now, tell me, ye who have had the most experience in tlus habit, how much have , vou made out of it? ; Five thousand dollars in all your life? No, One thousand? No. One hundred? No. One dollar? No. Ono cent? No. If the habit be so utterly useless, away with it. But you say: "I have struggled to overcomo the habit a long while, and I have"not been successful." You strug gled in your own strength, my brother. it ever a man wants uod, it 13 in such a crisis of his history. God alone by his grace can emancipate you from that trouble. Call upon him day and night that you may bo delivered from this crime. Remember also in the cure of this habit that it arouses God's indigna tion. The Bible reiterates, from chapter to chapter, and verse after verse, the fact that it is accursed for this life and that it makes a man miserable for eternity. There is not a Bin in all the catalogue that is 60 often peremptorily and sud denly punished in this world as the sin of profanity. There is not a city or a village but can give an illustration of a man struok down at tho moment of imprecation. A couple of years ago, briefly referring to this in a sermon, I gave some instances in which God had struck swearers dead at the moment of their profanity. That 6ermon brought to me from many parts of this land and other lands statements of Bimilar cases of instantaneous visitation from God upon blasphemers. My opinion is that such cases occur somewhere every day, but for various reasons they are not reported. In Scotland a club assembled every week for purposes of wickedness, and there was a competition as to which could use the most horrid oath, and the man who succeeded was to be president of the club. The competition went pn. A man uttered an oath which confounded all his comrades, and he was mado presi dent of tho club. His tongue legan to swell, and it protruded from the mouth, and ho could not draw it in, and he died, and the physicians said: f'This is the strangest thing we ever saw; wo never saw any account in the books like unto it; we can't understand it. " I under stand it. He cursed God and died. At Oatskil, N, Y., a group of men stood in a blacksmith's shop during a violent thunder storm. There came a crash of thunder and some of the men trembled. One man 6aid: "Why, I don't see what you are afraid of. I am not afraid to go out in front of the shop and defy the Almighty, I am not afraid of lightning. " And he laid a wager on the subject, and he went out, and he shook his fist at tho heavens, cryinor: "Strike, if you dare!" and instantly, he fell under a bolt. What destroyed him? Any mystery about it? Oh, no. He cursed God and died. Oh, my brother, God will not allow this sin to go unpunished. There aro styles of writing with manifold sheets, so that a man writing pn one leaf writes clear through ten, fifteen or twenty sheets, and so every profanity we utter goes right down through the leaves of tho book of God's remembrance. It is no exceptional sin.. Do you suppose you could count the profanities, pf last week tho profanities of office, store, shop, factory? They cursed God, they cursed his word, they cursed hi only begotten son. One morning, on Fulton street, as I was passing along, I heard a man swear by the name pf Jesus. My hair lifted. My blood ran cold. My breath paught. My foot halted. Do you not suppose that God is aggravated? Do you not suppose that God knows about it? Dionysius used to havo a cave in which hi3 culprits were incarcerated, and he listened at the top of that cave, and he could hear every groan, he could hear every sigh, and he could hear every whisper of thoso who wera imprisoned. He was a tyrant. Gcd in not a tyrant ; but he bends over this world and he hears everything every voice 01 praise every voice 01 impre cation. He hears it all. I he oaths seem to die on the air, but they have eternal echo. They come back from the ages to come. Listen! Listen! ?'A11 blasphemers shall have their place in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death, " And if, according to the theory of some, a man commits in the next world the sins which he com mitted in this world if unpardoned, un regenerated think of a man's going on cursing in the name of God to all eter nity! The habit grows. You start with a small oath, you will come to the large oath. I saw a man die with an oath be tween his teeth. Voltaire only gradually came to his tremendous imprecation; but the habit grew on him until in the last moment, supposing Christ stood at the bed. he exclaimed: "Crush that wretch! Crush tliat wretch!" Oh, my brother, you begin to swear and there is nothing impossible for you in tho wrong direction. t-ii j u, frozen , ... II 0 has J, lie j -.i tou last ir', ' ' jiiht. Ho w;.: j to lrelp- you, k.' tr. comfort you. God and your r.. d them from t! ' f Iter you. V. 1 y an imprecati. . . -u t him back by an Who is this Jems whose 1 in the imprecation? -Has ho; all your life long? "What vC ; ho done to you . that-you sho honor his name? WTiy, he was t whose blood 6immered in the . sacrifice for you. He La the brother tii j.t took off hia crown that you might put it on. . He ha3 pursued you all your .life long with mercy. He wants you to love him, wants you to serve him. Ho come3 with streaming eyes and broken heart and blistered feet to save you. On the craft of our doomed humanity he pushed out into the sea to take you off the wreck. Where is the hand that will ever be lifted in imprecation again? Let that hand, now blood tipped, be lifted that I may see it. Not one. Where is Che voice that will ever be uttered in dis honoring the name of that Christ? Let it speak now. Not one. Not one. Oh, I am glad to know that all these vices of the community, and the6o crimes of our city will bo gone. Society is going to lie bettered. Tlie world by the power of Christ's gospel is going to be saved, and this crime, this iniquity, and all the other iniquities will vanish before tho ris ing of tho buu of righteousness upon the nationj Thero was one day in New England memorable for storm and darkness. I hardly ever saw such an . evening. Tlie clouds which had been gathering all day unlimbered their batteries. The Housa tonic. which flows quietly, save as the paddles of pleasure parties rattle the oar locks, was lashed into foam, and the waves hardly knew where to lay them selves. ,Oh, what a time it was! The hills jarred under the rumbling of God's chariots. Blinding sheets of rain drove the cattle to the bars, or beat against the window pane as though to dash it in. The grain fields threw their crowns of gold at tho feet of the storm king. When night came in it was a double night. Its mantle was torn with tho lightnings, and into its locks were twisted the leaves of uprooted oaks and the shreds of canvas torn from the ruasts of the beached ship ping. It was 6uch a night as makes you thank God for shelter, and open the door to let in tho spaniel howling outside with terror. Wo went to 6leep under the full blast of heaven's great orchestra, the forests with uplifted voices, in chorus that filled tho mountains, praising the Lord. We woke not until the fingers of the sunny morn touched our eyelids. We looked out the window, and the Ilousatonic slept as quiet as an infant's dream. Pil lars of clouds set against the sky looked like the castles of the blessed, built for heavenly hierarchs on the beach of the azure sea. All the trees sparkled as though there had been some great grief in heaven, and each leaf had been God appointed to catch an angel's tear. It seemed as if our Father had looked upon the earth, his wayward child, and stooped to her tear wet cheek and kissed it. So will the darkness of sin and crime, leave our world before the dawn of the morning. Tlie light shall gild the city spire and strike the forests of Maine and the masts of Mobile and all between. And one end resting on the Atlantic coast and the other resting on the Pacific beach, Oo4 w"ll spring a great rainbow arch of peace, in token of everlasting covenant that the world shall never more see a deluge of crime. "But," 6ays some one, "preaching against the evils of Bociety will accom plish nothing. Do you not see that the evils go right on?" J. answer, we are not at all discouraged. It seemed insignificant for Moses to stretch his hand over the Red sea. Wha'. power could that have over the waters? But the east wind blew all night; the sades on either side. The billows reared as God's hand pulled back upon their crystal bits. Wheel into line, oh Israel! March! March! Pearls crash under the feet. The shout of hosts mounting the beach answers the shout of hosts mid sea : until, as the last line of the Israelites have gained the beach, th shields clang, and tho cymbals clap; and aa the watei-3 whelm the pursuing foe, tlie swift fingered winds on the white keys of the foam play the grand march of Israel delivered, and the awful dirge of Egvptian overthrow. So we eo forth; and stretch out the hand of nraver and Christian effort over these darkboiling waters of crime' and sin. "Aha! Aha!" .says the deriding world. But wait.- The winds pf divino help will begin to blow; the way will clear for the great army 01 Christian philanthropists; tho glittering treasures of the world's benefi cence will line the path of our feet; and tQ the other shore we will bo greeted with the clash of all heaven's cymbals; while those who resist and de ride and pursue us will fall under the sea, and there will bo nothing left of them but here and there, cast high and dry upon the beach, the splintered wheel of a chariot, and, thrust out from tbe 6urf, the breathless nostril of a riderless charger. Swellest Mourning Paper. It may interest fastidious letter writers to know that the very swellest mourning paper used by the elite of France measures eight by five inches, and lias a black border half an inch wide. The en velopes measure four and a quarter by five and three-quarter inches. New York Tribune. Teeth by Subscription. A woman at Albany, Ga., wanted a new set of fake teeth and liadn't money to pay for it. 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