OREGON CITY COURIER THURSDAY, AUG. 7 1913
SATURDAY NIGHT
iEBMONS
BY
8T M Samuel
W.PUKVIS.DJ)i
THE EASILY BROKEN COMMANDMENT
Text, "Thou shalt not take the name
of tho Lord thy God In vain." Ex. xx, 7.
The tongue is the glory of man. The
glory of the tongue Is to voice the
praises of God. No other creature
blasphemes God. Man alone has that
unholy distinction. All else praise
God and obey his laws. The heaven
ly courses praise him in notes of light,
music our dull ears may not hear.
The earth with her myriad voices
praises him. The deep toned ocean,
the quiet music of the stream, the
gentle notes of the woods, tho storms
with thunder peals, unite in a grand
hymn of praise, but It is all unintelli
gent. The birds with sweet songs
greet the morning light, and all the
creatures lift up their voices to him,
but it lacks Intelligence. Man stands
at the head of creation and ought to
take up its many notes of praise and
give them Intelligent utterance. Yet
It is he alone who brazenly stands be
fore his Creator and out of vile mouth
pours forth a stream of foul invective,
stenchful and Impure as a reeking
sewer. Passing a saloon corner the
other ulght I heard three men In con
versation, high in tone, blacken all
their language by a constant stream of
profanity. Their cloud of blasphemy
rose like smoke of torment from the
pit of hell. I am told that on the wall
of that saloon the Iloly Name society
of Iloboken hns placed a placard ask
ing, "Please refrain from cursing in
this place." It Is a silent finger raised
In protest in an atmosphere congenial
and appropriate for profanity.
Tho Amerioan Sin.
Americans are reputed to be the most
profane people on earth. An American
gentloman traveling in Russia was
asked if he were a clergyman. His
answer was negative. When he in
quired the why of the question be was
told that they supposed nil other Amer
icans were addicted to the wicked
ha lilt. A missionary returning from
India with a native boy stopped before
a blasphemous man and said, "This
boy was born and brought up In a
heathen land, but In all his life has
never heard a man blaspheme his
Maker until now." The Buddhist and
Mohammedan shrink from mention
ing, let alono profaning, tho name of
God. I stood waiting for a street car
In a nearby city. At the corner was a
fire house. A group of lads stood look
ing in. At the door leaned a police
man pouring -out poison from tils cor
rupt mouth to blacken tho young minds
of that group of bright eyed American
schoolboys. When I remonstrated for
the sake of the "kiddies" he laughed
viciously ond menacingly advised me
to "move on." This nilserablo degen
erate considered it smart to dump the
offal and garbage of his cesspool imag
ination Into the minds of the school
boys. In committee room, hotel cor
ridor, smoking cur, street corimr, al
most everywhere, one must listen to
the vile, vulgar national characteristic.
The Sin Unprofitable.
Swearing Is cheap, useless. This Is
a commercial age. We are supposed
to lnqulro of anything, "Does It pay?"
The profit of profanity takes the minus
sign. Did cursing ever simplify intri
cate bookkeeping? Did it ever
strengthen ono's credit nt tho bank or
deepen the confidence of the commu
nity lu ono's business integrity? Does
a merchant's profanity commend ei
ther himself or Ills goods? Does it
ever collect a had debt? Hns a phy
sician ever added elllcacy to his pre
scription by laslilug his patients with
a profane touguo? Does a luwyer at
tract cllentB or wlu a jury by his
oaths? Why should uu houest, capable
man have to add oaths to confirm his
word? Profanity is not proof in an ar
gument A parrot can curse, but it
takes brains to convince. As chap
lain for un insane asylum It was most
painful to notice tho facility with
which the weaker ones swore. Tho
lower tho mental grade tho cusior to
swear. It is tho vehicle of Incompe
tent brains. "I never swear except
when I am angry." Oh, then when
some one offends you, you insult God!
"It Is a foolish habit. I don't menu
It." Acting without r motive? Doing
things without meaning It It Is a sign
of weakening mentality.
Deadly Nightshade.
The deadly nature of profanity lies
In this men always lose faith lu that
which they regard lightly on their
tongues. To take God's name In vain
is to raise up an army of doubts. Oaths
are llko dragon's teeth sown by Cad
mus of old. From them springs n har
vest of armed giants of doubt and un
belief. There is no way In which you
can make God seem a myth, an unre
ality, and destroy his power over your
own better self than by the blasphemy
of his nnnio. The driver said, "That
horso knows when I swear at him."
"Yes, and so dues your Maker!" The
oaths we utter die on tho cur, but the
Almighty hears them In their eternal
echo. Christ makes this positive dec
laration: "lint I sny unto you that for
every Idle word that men shall speak
they shall give an account In the day
of Judgment." Swearing is a violation
of the law of your commonwealth, of
the law of good society and of the law
of God. A man who swears Is nnlthor
a good Christian, a good citizen nor a
gentleman. Say. you poor limping sin
ner, if you must stumble, don't let it be
over the rock of blasphemy. Honor
the God you must face.
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WEAKNESS
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eart to Heart
Talks
EUGENICS.
When the Komans wanted to name
what they thought the best thing in
the world they called It "summum bo
num." the "chief good." Let us see
now what is this chief good.
It is not tho selfish gratification of
our own desires, that passes away as
a tale that is told. It Is not perhaps
the aiding In the material and moral
welfure of our fellows, although that
is an object worthy of our highest en
deavors. What, then, Is the chief good? It is
leaving the world a better, cleaner,
purer place for those who shall come
after us. It Is working for the benefit
of our children and our neighbor's chil
dren and their children's children to
the end of time.
To that end has been born the sci
ence of eugenics, of which we have
been hearing so much. Briefly de
scribed, eugenics is the throwing of
safeguards around marriage to prevent
the perpetuation of tho unfit.
It means the throwing up of the
hand of warning when two persons
who should not marry contemplate
"passing on the torch of life." It
means the saving of the world from
many evils.
It places at the side of the clergy
man or civil authority, whenever a
marriage Is to be solemnized, the state
ly figure of Science, zealous In the
cause of protecting humanity from dis
ease and blindness and malformation
and crime.
Science scans the man and woman
desiring to wed. If she sees on either
of them tho signs, visible or invisible
to humans, of unfitness to marry, by
reason of physical or mental weakness
or illness, she steps forward and says,
with authority, "Nay, forbear!"
It Is the answer of science to the
priest's challenge, "If any man can
show Just causa why they may not be
Joined together let him speak now or
forever after hold his peace."
To hold peace in such a case would
be to condone a crime. Lot no one bo
guilty of such 111 doing!
More and more clergymen are enlist
ing In the cause of eugenics and are re
fusing to celebrate marriages unless
both purtles can show "clean bills of
health," physical und mental. More
and more scientists and social workers
are urging heavier warfare on the dis
eases which, transmitted from person
to person, bring woe and suffering to
an amount incredible to the uninform
ed mind.
Moro and more parents are coming
to see clearly their duty in this matter
and are Imparting to their children the
Instruction which uloue can save them
from suffering and death. More and
moro the light of a bettor day in this
respect Is broadening in the east.
Help to speed the coming of the
broad daylight of eugenics!
ONE LITTLE GIRL'S BIRTHDAY.
Beatrice Newman had a birthday.
Lots of other little girls have birthdays-may
they all be happy! but
only few of them celebrate their birth
day as ten-year-old Bentrleo celebrated
hers. She kept her birthday, you see,
by giving it away.
Beatrice lives in tho crowded east
side of New York city, whoro there is
more misery to tho acre probably than
anywhere elso on earth and also more
charitableness and mutual self help.
But Beatrlco Is happier than most of
tho other little girls of the east Bide,
for her father is well to do.
Of course, like all good daddies, when
his little girl's birthday enmo around
ho wanted to make her happy. He
asked her what she wanted for a gift
and suggested things which nro dear
to tho hearts of all llttlo girls. But to
each suggestion Beatrice shook her
head Then her daddy asked, "Well,
what shall I get for you?"
Head Boatrlco's answer, you who
think that human kindness has died
out In the world, that selfishness sits
enthroned above all elso:
"Papa, there is something that will
make me happier. In tho school whoro
I go there are poor children who think
I hnvo prettier clothes than they have.
Let mo buy each of them a lovely
dress I'll bo happy then."
So the father of Beatrlco sent word
to the woman principal of Beatrice's
school that he would buy dresses for
the poor girls whom she might select.
Seventy children between tho ages of
seven and twelve wore chosen. They
formed in line In front of Mr. New
man's place of business, and provision
was made for each to receive a dainty
dress.
You who are fortunate enough to
have little daughters know tho pride
and Joy which shone In seventy pairs
of eyes as they donned Beatrice's
birthday gifts. There was happiness
to overflowing In the crowded east side
streets.
But It does not need n sage or a
philosopher to tell where the happiness
was centered.
"It's the best birthday 1 ever had,"
Veatrlce told her father.
"WATCH YODR STEPI"
Into the crowded subway station a
train comes roaring. With strident
grinding of the brakes It comes to a
stop Between the car platform and
tho station Is a space of many Inches,
easily bridged by tho careful passen
ger, but a menace to tho unwary. In
front of It stands a man whose busi
ness all day long It Is to warn the trav
eler: "Watch your step!"
All ulong tho road of life there are
"I have been somewhat cosotive but
Doun's Kogultos give just the results
I desire. They act mildly and regu
late tho bowels perfectly." Ceo. H.
Krnuse, Altoonu, Pa.
SATlMWjP
RevSamuelW.Pukvis.D.D.
THE DAY OF DAYS.
Text, "Remember the Sabbath day to
keep It holy."-Ex. xx, 8.
With the Christian It Is Sundny; the
Greek, Monday; the Persian, Tuesday;
Assyrian, Wednesday; Egyptian, Thurs
dny; Turk, Friday; the Jew, Saturday.
It would be pretty difficult to prove
that last Saturday was the original
Sabbath or to tell a Hawulian when
his Sulibath should be observed In liN
longitude. 1'uul says, "Let no nui
therefore judge you lu meat or drink,
or in respect of u holy day, or of the
new moon, or of the Sabbath." One of
the difficulties of a supreme uourt is lo
interpret laws In the spirit lu which
they were written to get not at tho
letter, but at tho principle. Some
there are who would go back to the
rigors of the ultra Jewish law, so that
a man gathering twigs for a tire should
be stoned to death and a man taking a
Journey of six city blocks should also
be Buramarlly dealt with. Another
would tro to the other extreme, and
there would be a continental Sabbath,
with all that that implies. Two things
are taught in the commandment a holy
day and a rest day. Much depends on
definitions of both.
Christ and the Sabbath
Then comes Christ and furnishes the
solution by showing the spirit of the
law and the intent. "Man was not
made for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath
far man." Then to prove it he com
mits two flagrant offenses in the eyes
of the Jews. He goes through the
cosnfield on the Sabbath and plucks
ears of corn. And then, what tnlght
shock some of us, ho goes to a dinner
party lu tho house of a chief Pharisee
and after that feast heals some sick
No wonder the Jews set up a howl
"He has broken the Sabbath!" Christ
said be was Lord of the Sabbath. How
would he spend the day In this year of
grace 1013? Is there any reader this
Saturday ulght who supposes that to
morrow morning at church time he
would find him, gun on shoulder, on
way to the woods or with o fishing pole
bound for the creek? Would you find
him with a hilarious crowd already
hulf drunk on the Sunday excursion or
screaming in the afternoon out at
Bleacher park over a ball game? When
tho church bells ring on Sunday night
would he be at the Sunday "sacred
concert" at the beer garden or on his
way to the burlesque vaudeville show?
It seems sacrilege to think it. I do not
think ho would do anything that he
could do during the week. Works of
necessity ho did and would do.
The Workingman's Sunday,
Shortly ago labor organizations were
crying, "Personal liberty Sunday for
the worklngmnn's recreation!" In
many places there were hnnded over to
him the Sunday saloon, bnll game, ex
curslon, theaters, etc. Now he cries,
"Take them away!" The man without
either dinner pall or Bible asks the
meaning of the paradox. It Is the
laboring man who sells the Sunday
cigars and drinks, who runs the Sun
dny trniu, steamboat and vaudeville.
Larger and larger have been the num
ber drawn Into the ranks of Sunday
labor to make the holiday for the oth
ers. To take care of the crowd one in
dustry after another has been sum
monedemployees of hotels, restau
rants and eating houses, butchers,
bakers, confectioners, florists, candy
and popcorn venders, barbers, bnrteud
ers and a host of others. The army is
gett ing larger. In ten years the host of
workers has Increased 68 per cent.
Itecently the announcement came from
certain Iron and steel trusts, followed
inter by a great textile corporation,
that they would have to require their
worklngmeu to labor seven days In the
week. Pressure In competition Is the
basis of tho demand. Extra pay Is, of
course, offered the workmen. But ev
ery thinking man who has watched the
trend of such things knows that It
will not be long till those same work
men will be back on the same pay as
on six days. Sunday work Is now de
manded that a few years ago public
sentiment would not have tolerated.
The Republio't Bulwark,
Wo will have to take a brace. Our
nation's fathers called the Sabbath
the bulwark of the republic. The New
York Call, tho leading Socialist dally,
which certainly cannot bo accused of
being puritanical, sounds Its warning
and speaks of the depressing and de
moralizing effect of tho present Suu
day on the 5,500,000 of New York's ui
habltants who are devoting the day
to a feverish pursuit of n relaxation
which they do not find. Tho "subway,
surfuco oud elevated cars Jammed to
the doors," tho "sacred concerts" full
of sacred smut and disrobing' acts
which are "a shame and a disgrace."
Say, fellow Christian, fellow citizen,
Sunday ought to be the beBt, the
brightest day of tho week for the
worklngmnn, but ho Isn't finding it in
die continental Sabbath. The old Amer
ican Sabluith may have been tame, but
It was refreshing. The modern Sun
day Is a gigantic blunder. It offers
absolutely nothing of value to Ameri
can life. It begins late with a long,
drawn out breakfast. Weary eyed
members of the family who were up
till midnight or after come trailing
down. At church time all are burled
In the blanket sheets and comic sec
tion of the Sunday newspaper. Tho day
ends In nervous exhaustion and wenri
ness. Spend the day godward. Push
back tho world. Give us n day of hush
from the clang of yesterday. Oh, for the
refreshing breeze of our old time sane,
sensible, sober American Sunday I
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WAS IihTlET FAT?
With
Pro-
George Bradford, living at River
side Hotel, Colusa, Calif., reports that
he had a very severe case of kidney
trobule and bachache, which also af
fected the secretions. He says "I
took five boxes of Foley Kidney Pills
and they cred me." All over Califor
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His Own Words He Doth
claim the Fact Quite Pat.
The traditional ll.-imlet of our stage
Is n lean, ascetle .viunm pei'sou, an
Idealized, etherenllssed, heroic creature
evolved for the delectation of the mati
nee girl.- He Is a horrid shiim. Is It
credible that such a man would have
lacked the determination, the purpose
fulness, to put his revenge Into opera
tlon pat upon the discovery? It is all
very well to argue about his mental
balance. It was his sluggish liver
that stayed him and hampered him.
Hamlet's father was a fat and lethar
gic man by his own account
Bleeping within my orchard,
My custom always of the afternoon,
be says lu his ghostly Interview.
We may then look for some clew to
Hamlet's character as soon as he is
alone on tho stage. What are his
words?
Oh, that this too. too eolld flesh would
melt!
It is a keynote that may not be
glossed over as a beautiful thought
for the same idea bursts out some lines
farther on, where he says of the wrld:
Things rank and gross In nature
Possess It merely
Is it credible that such thoughts are
there for any purpose save to guide
us as to the nature of this prince?
They serve a double purpose. Not
merely do we learn that Hamlet was
a fat man, but also that he was an un
happy fat' man. Hamlet was a man to
whom his bulk was an affliction. He
was handicapped by It and knew that
he was Some such Idea Is discernible
In every one of the great soliloquies.
no scorns himself for a sluggnrd:
Whnt Is a man
If his chief Rood and market of his time
Be but to sluep and feed?
Ills mind, unhinged or not, Is ob
scssed by fatness, and in the mad tur
moil of emotions after he has slain
Polonlus his thoughts run:
We fnt all creatures else to fat ub. and
We fnt ourselves for maggots.
It bursts out again In the "Ob, what
a rogue and peasant slave!" harangue
Ere this
I should have tutted all the region's kites
With this slave's offal.
And who but a fat. lethargic man
would have said in the "To be or not to
be" speech:
Who would fardels bear
To grunt and sweat under a weary life.
Does not the phrase bring to mind nt
once the picture of a fnt man tolling at
gome loathed task? London Express.
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TIVB
THIS LAXA-
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Any skin itching is a tepmer test
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at all drug stores.
For dyspepsia, our naticnul ailment
use Burdock Blood Bitters. Recom
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purifying the blood. At all drug
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