p. 146 | Profanity

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 20, 1876

Profanity.

WHY is this custom, or habit, increasing to such an alarming extent in the midst of what is supposed to be a community of superior civilization and intelligence? Why should the merchant, at the head of a vast establishment, himself the paragon of honor and integrity, offend the sense of high-minded clerks and employees with a vocabulary of oaths and imprecations that would shame the leading spirit of Dante’s hades? Why should venerable and aged men, some of whom are the pillars of our banking houses, our public charities, and leaders in many great and glorious enterprises, be addicted to this pernicious vice? The influence and the sequences, as reflected upon the young and rising generation among all classes, is crushing and debasing. Zion’s Herald.