SWEAR WORDS | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 6, 1877

“SWEAR WORDS.”

The Scotch say that “those that will swear will lie;” and some who do not wish to be considered profane, yet use “swear words” which might well be omitted.

A little five-year old boy overheard a workman, who was repairing the sitting-room floor, drop an exclamation over some slight mishap. “That’s the first swear word I ever heard in my father’s house,” was the grave rebuke of the little boy. It so touched the rough man that he went to the mother of the boy and confessed his fault. While engaged on the job he never again lapsed into vulgarity or profanity.

The boy, now a tall lad, wields the same influence over his mates. They understand that his part of the game is ended as soon as bad words are introduced. The knowledge that his father’s tongue was never polluted by profanity, together with his mother’s precepts, and a child’s natural desire to be like his father, have given this salutary bias to his early life. Boys, keep free from “swear words” of all kinds. They do no good whatever, but always defile and dishonor those who use them; and the habit once established is a bad one to get rid of. —The Child’s World.