WHAT DOES HE PAY FOR SWEARING?
By G. B. T.
“WHAT does Satan pay you for swearing?” asked one gentleman of another. “He does not pay me anything,” was the reply. “Well, you work cheap—to lay aside the character of a gentleman; to inflict so much pain on your friends and civil people; to suffer; and lastly, to risk your own precious soul—and for nothing. You certainly do work cheap, very cheap indeed.” What a pity that those who have fallen into the terrible habit of profaning the name of God do not think of this! The day of Judgment hastens on, when man will have to render to the Judge of all the earth an account for every idle, profane word spoken. Unless we repent, we will hear from the lips of Him whom we have blasphemed, the terrible fiat, “Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” Mat. 25:41. G. B. T.