Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1875 — Quit Swearing! [ARTICLE]

Quit Swearing!

The first step toward getting rid of profanity is to cultivate equapimity of temper. It is always foolish to get angry at what cannot be helped, and it is especially silly to fall into a passion over inanimate objects, such as windows that will not go up, stovepipes that will not go together, sticks that will not split, etc. The best plan is to take such things coolly, and then if they can be helped you will the sooner find It out, and if they cannot be helped all the swearing in the world will not mend matters. Take a common-sense view of this subject. Swearing is not only undoubtedly wrong, but also obviously foolish ; every oath you utter, every vulgar word that passes your lips degrades you and accomplishes no food whatever. Why not quit the vile abit at once ? Do you say that you cannot quit? that you have tried, but the oaths come out before you think ? Let your own conduct prove the falsity ot your reasoning. You do not swear before your wife or your mother or your sister or your sweetheart, no matter how great the provocation. Why? Because you would be ashamed to let them hear such words pass your lips. But you are always in the company of your God. No vulgar word escapes you that He does not hear it. Are you nbt ashamed to be profane in His presence? When next you are tempted to swear, remember whose ear will catch the words and desist; or, if the oath comes before you remember, ask His pardon whose law yon have transgressed, and you will soon find that it is possible for you to live without swearing. —Doylestown {Pa.) Intelligencer.