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The Harm of Profanity

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 33.

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The Harm of Profanity

Profanity never did any man the least good. No man is richer, or wiser for it. It commends no one to any society. It is disgusting to the refined, detestable to the good, insulting to those with whom we associate; unprofitable, needless, and injurious to society. It is degrading to the mind, damnable to the spirit, and abominable to the soul of the perpetrator. Try to desert the habit of profanity. Try to cast of the shackles of the worse than useless pollutions. Try to brake the cord that binds you in your cursing and swearing, and you will see how the devil has you bound in this one thing of profanity. You are in chains that will drag you down to perdition if you allow this evil habit to grow upon you little by little. Friends, stoutly resist beginnings in the downward course, but love and court beginnings in the upward, faithful, moral and truthful course that leads you on in life and peace to God.