Against the Sin of Swearing

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 29, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 21.

Against the Sin of Swearing

LET him who swears remember that his language is both sinful and ungentlemanly. It is offensive to God and it is offensive to good men. If a man is an atheist even, he should not swear in the hearing of others unless he does it in a foreign tongue. If one must swear on our streets, common politeness or ordinary decency should induce him to do in the Chaldee or Arabic, that he may not offend those who have a reverence for God and a regard for sacred things.—Sel.