Identifier: pathwayoflifeint00talm (find matches)
Title: The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902
Subjects: Christian life and character
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pub. and manufactured by Historical Pub. Co. for the Christian Herald
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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abit, I tell you plainly—and I write to hundreds andthousands of men to-day who will thank me for my assertion—I tell you, mybrother, there is no habit that so depletes a mans nature as the habit of profanity.You might as well try to raise vineyards and orchards on the sides of belchingStromboli as to raise anything good in a heart from wdiich there pours out thescoria of profanity. You may swear yourself down; you cannot swear yourselfup. When the Mohammedan finds a piece of paper he cannot read, he puts itaside very cautiously for fear the name of God may be on it. That is oneextreme. We go to the other. Now, what is the cure of this habit? It is a THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. 209 mighty habit. Men have struggled for years to get over it. There are men ofGod who would give half their fortune to get rid of it. An aged man wa.<; in thedelirium of a fever. He had for many years hved a most upright life and washonored in all the community, but when he came into the delirium of this fever
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TELLING THE SECRET OF A BAD DEED. he was full of imprecation and profanity, and they could not understand it. After he came to his right reason he explained it. He said: When I was a young man I was very profane. I conquered the habit, but I had to struggle all through life. You havent for forty years heard me say an improper word, but it has been an awful struggle. The tiger is chained, but he is alive yet. 14 2IO THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. HOW TO OVERCOME THE HABIT. If you would get rid of this habit, I want you, my friends, to dwell upon theuselessness of it. Did a volley of oaths ever start a heavy load ? Did they everextirpate meanness from a customer ? Did they ever collect a bad debt ? Didthey ever cure a toothache ? Did they ever stop the twinge of the rheumatism ? ■Did they ever help you forward one step in the right direction ? Come, now, tellme, ye who have had the most experience in this habit, how much have youmade out of it? Five thousand dollars in all your life? No. One th

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