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Claims collected in all parts of the State. 3 8 lv V A. DUNN, A T T 0 R X E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, X. C. Practices wherever his services are required. t 2 13 ly w. H. KITCHIX, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Scotland Xeck, N. C. g2S?"0:Tice : Corner Main and Elev enth Streets. i- i I. J. Mercer & son., 02G East Main Street., RICHMOND VA. LUMBER COMMISSION MERCHANTS. -o- ( Jives personal and prompt attention to all consignments ot .Lumber, ftiiin gles. Laths, &c. 4 17 90 ly After six vears experience, I feel thor oughly competent to do all work that is expected of a WATCHMAKER and JEWELER. WATCHMAKER and JEWELER. Repairing & Timing Fine Watches A SPECIALTY. 1 also carry a full line of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND FANCY G-OODS. Spectacles and l Eye Glasses Properly l Pitied to the Eye. Z - 1i hiki Sawing Mm THE BEST ON EARTH. SEWING MACHINES CLEANED AND REPAIRED. SAT f - FACTION G UA K ANTEED. tu. n. joiixsrox, Xext hor to X. 11. Joxey. 10 6 6m NEW leweiry Store J. fi. LAWRENCE, Dealer in "RAIN, 31 ILL FEED, HAY, CLO VER AND GRASS SEEDS. Improved Farm Im plements A SPECIALTY. Agent for Clark's Cutaway Harrow and the Deering Mower, A Model of Perfection. SCOTLAND LECK. N. O. 16 ly E. E. KILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. X. PROFANITY IS UNMANLY. It is Silly, Useless and Degrading. A Sermon by Rev. R. T. Vann in Scot land Neck Baptist Church, Sun day, January 14, 1894. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord v ill not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." Ex. 20-7. When one reads the tirst and second commandments he may doubt wheth er, for the American jeopIe, they are not out of date. Rut when he strikes this third prohibition he knows he has touched modern life in every grade. For, be it said to our shame, no class or rank in society is free from the ungod ly and unmanly habit of profanity. Much of what parses for by-words, idle, perhaps, but harmless, is a breach of the third commandment. "Dad blame" is only "God blame" modified. "Dad burn" takes the place of "God burn." "Drot" is shortened from "God rot" : while "Zounds," an abbreviation of "His wounds," is an impious and blas phemous reference to our Saviour's bloody death. The irreverent use of scriptural texts to point a pun or em bellish a story violates the spirit of this commandment ; and the glib and ready quotation of profane speech is simply bald profanity. It is swearing by proxy. It is gratuitous endorsement of the swearer. It reveals the true spirit of the person quoting it and shows that shame or fear, but not anv reverence for the sacred name of God, prevents him from swearing on his own account. These are the facts unimpeachable. Let us hoie that the many professing Christians who in dulge in this vicious habit do so be cause their attention has never been called to its exceeding wickedness. In this third Commandment God expresses grave concern for the sanct- itv of his name Is this concern un reasonable . Do not men leel a sim ilar care about their names? Handle the average man's name carelessly, and you need not be surprised at a bullet or a blow. Names represent character ; many, therefore, are the de scriptive terms under which God's great name is set forth in Scripture It is called a "great name" an "excel- Jent name, a glorious name, a "holy name," an "everlasting name," a "fearful name," a "terrible name." And in the form of prayer left us by Jesus the first of all, "Hallowed be thy name." In treating the text to-night, it is simply proposed to lay down and briefly enforce some propositions which, it is believed, will command the assent of all fair-minded men, even of swearers themselves. 1. Trofane swearing is a silly habit. It requires no unusual skill to swear. It exhibits no unusual intelligence. The simpleton can equal the sage in this low business. Anybody can swear, as forcibly as you. Moreover, the com mon oath means nothing. What do these curse words mean to the man who uses them? Anything at all? Positively nothing. This, indeed, is the swearer's commonest plea : He "means nothing by it." But what means nothing is nonsense. Is'nt it? Silly ? Oh so silly ! If you could see, good friend, how pitfully stupid your swearing makes you appear, you would give over the habit from very shame. 2. Profanity is a useless habit. It adds no beauty, no elegance to your conversation, and no force save among the vulgar. It does not make you or anybody else any wiser, any happier or any better- It gives no higher cred ibility to your word even in the minds of the most profane. It really lowers most people's respect for your veracity. "An e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it till affirmance breeds a doubt." If you can not trust your own word without an oath, do not be surprised if others decline to trust it with an oath. In what respect does swearing help -, . , j .-1 ; vou 7 uoes it open me uoor ui etocietj to you ? O yes ; that is, some society. But God help the society to which swearing is the pass-port- For what business does swearing fit you? In looking for a clerk do not even swear- SCOTLAND NECK, era themselves prefer the man whose lips are clean of oaths? Look about you, friend, and tell me how or when or where profanity benefits you. 3. Profanity is an unmanly habit. I do not use the word vn gentle manly. I prefer the word, unmanly. One of the evils in the world to-day ia the fact that there are so many gentlemen and so lew men. And yet, I believe no one has ever ventured to maintain that swearing is the mark of even a gentleman, earth-born and man-made though he be. If it is gentlemanly to "curse" then of a course you do so in the presence of ladies. You do not? Do you swear in the presence of your wife and daughters? I know you do not. Thank God, even the lowest swearer commonly respcts his family if not himself enough to keep the oath out of the home. Have I over stated your gallantry? Do you actually insult and degrade your family by swearing in their presence? Then I respectfully submit that they should close the house against you till you plead for pardon and promise reform. I do not charge that a real man never swears. I do charge that his manhood is marred when he does. Great he may be and yet swear. But if so, his great ness is not made by .profanity ; lie would be greater still without it. Pro fane swearing is not a mark of great ness but of littleness. How sadly com mon is the misapprehension here among our boys. I can recall in vivid detail my first and only oath. I had the common notion that in some way swearing helped one along very rapidly toward manhood. I had heard the swaggering swain all caned and gloved and topped with a five-dollar hat over a ten-cent head, swinging his idle ton gue in blatant blasphemy, and I stu pidly made up my mind that he must certainly be one of the greatest men in the world ; that he had become so mainly by swearing, and that my straight road to greatness was the high way of profanity. I must begin at once. So my brother and I agreed one day to curse two negro boys when they got to us. We did not have any prov ocation and did not want any. We were going to do the thing in cold blood just to show that we could do it. The result was a great surprise to me. I had supposed that I should feel im mensely larger right away. But I did not. I can scarcely tell you how I did feel. A sort of weak and limber and white and red and cowed and silly com bination laid hold of me, while the ground felt soft and shaky beneath my feet. O, how thoroughly silly and ashamed I felt ! My brother doubtless had a similar experience, as it was his last appearance in the role of a swearer. Boys, if any of you ever swear well,1 I hardly ever advise a boy to hide things from his mother; but if you should ever by any woful error let an oath pass your lips, I would 'nt let my mother know anything about it, I think. She has been thinking so proudly of you as her boy, her manly boy, I should not undeceive her. I would never let her know what a hu miliating failure she has made in raising me. No swearing ever made a great man. Run your mind over the illus trious names that have adorned the history of our country and see how many of them appear on the roll of the profane. Was Washington a habitual swearer? Were the Adamses? Was Jefferson, skeptic though he was? Was Madison, father of the Constitution, no ted for profanity ? Was either of the Great Three among statesmen distin guished as swearers? Was - Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis or Robert Lee or Stonewall Jackson a common swearer? Who ever has taken his place among the world's immortals because of the habit of profanity? Whenever any man dishonors the name of His Maker he thereby dishonors his own. Observe, in the fourth place, that profane swearing is a low and vulgar habit. Profanity is a marked charac teristic of this class. Not all who swear are low or vulgar in their general character, but they are decidedly so in this particular aspect of their character. Who ever saw a man of the class men tioned that did not swear? If you were to hear through closed blinds as j "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1894. you were passing down the street the voices of men indulging in coar-e and blatant profanity without seeing or learning ought else about them, you would say here is a crowd of black guards and roughs. You would meas ure them bv one single tandum- profanity; and you would measure them accurately. Did you ever hear a woman swearing? I tins that you have been spared such a painful fhock. But should you ever meet a profane female, would you 1? dispoKnl to marry her? Would you tip j-our hat j Is he tome worthless yagatond, sumo to her In passing? Would you even pestilent fellow, an object of just deri tip your hat to her in passing? Would j . y X:.y, but he is the Prime of you not know her at once as a disgrace j Life, the .-elf-iorget-ful Redeemer, who to her sex? But why this merciless ir:,Ve his life that he might open the judgment? -imply because of the habit j gates of Heaten to the like of vou and that has seemed so manly in you. I j me. Will you ruthlessly profane his submit that a woman has the same j name? And yet, some rersons think natural right to swear and remain j it high sport to induce little Uy to womanly that you have to swear swear. Yes, l.-ar, O heavens, I hae and remain manly. Profane swearing, whether in m.m or woman, isdisgusting to the refined, shocking to the pure, revolting to the good, insulting to women, and degrading to all who practice it- 5. I affirm in the fifth place that profane swearing is an assault on the foundation of our government. This government is organized under three departments : legislative, executive and judicial ; but the entire system depends for its purity and efficiency upon the sanctity of an oath. Our presidents and governors are inducted into office under oath. Our judges and our juries are sworn to faithfulness and impartial it' in the administration of justice. Witnesses and at torneys are put through the same solemn form. What assur ance have we that righteousness and truth shall control the actions of these public servants? What guarantee have we that our property and our lives will be guarded by the majesty of the law? Simply this and nothing more : that these men respect an oath. In swearing "upon the holy evangelists of Almighty God," they profess to fear the wrath and reverence of this dread Being. But when a man habitually despises and profanes and blasphemes this awful name, what power hos r, court-house oath upon him? What restraint has the name of God upon him? What influence is there loft save the mean fear of detection and punishment? For the man who swears habitually, no oath lias am weight when self-interest is in the bal ance. He that can swear vainly can swear falsely. Only a solemn reerence for the Maker's name makes any oath a sacred thing. 6. Again, the habit of profanity eats out the swearer's mord character. The source of all moral life is God. He is at once the standard and motive of all righteousness. Remove him and you pluck out the heart of good feel ings and good actions. Abolish the recognition of God and reverent fear of him, and you have left no anchor for man's moral character. I do not affirm that all swearers lie or steal. Many dc not ; they would resent the insinuation. What I do affirm is that the tendency of profanity is away from righteousness -all kinds of righteousness, and that no man can say where the swearer will end. You can introduce rot into a tree but can you stop its progress? There were two Lieutenant Generals in the Con federate Army who were the flower of Southern chival rv and tne soul of knightly gallantry. Who then would have dared impeach their honor ? But both, I believe, were profane swearers and one went beyond the borders of common decency in his plasphemy. Thev have become a blot on manhood i and a by-word for shameless robbery. 7. Finally, profane swearing is one of the most malignant pins against God. It is a direct insult to Diety, an in solent affront to the Supreme Majesty. A blasphemous defiance of the Omnip otent. And its guilt isreddeued by its utter wantonness. Some palliation may be found for almost any other sin ; but for profanity even the swearer himself can offer no excuse. The thief steals for gain, the libertine may plead the heat of passion, the liar may urge the hope of reward, the murderer may be stung to his deed by the burning mem- ory of wrong. But the habitual swearer mut ?t,md in naked guilt, without even the thin cover of prov ocation. And who is thn God who name ha- Income your foot-ball? I he some cruel tyrant, some brutal ruler, whoe power manhood mud reit? Nay, he is your Maker : the IJcing who gave you existence aid kind ! hand prr.-orvew your hfe, patiently merciful v,u a t thr ioi, provocation of your bla.-phfiny. And ho is thi Christ ho4' title you so flippantly in voice to gtrni-h your lowest jqeech? Known fathers to teach their little kuis to blaspheme this gracious name. Dear friend, if ever you have done a thing like that go apart where only the eye of God can see you and fall upon your knees and ask him to blot out the memory of a deed so vile. We read that "the Lord will not hold him gr.il (less (hat taketh his name in vain." In Deuteronomy, 28 : 58, 59, 01, God says to Israel, "If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear ,his glorious and fear ful name, THE LORD THY GOD, then will the Lord make thy plagues wonderful and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues and of long contin uance and sore sickness. Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee until thou le de stroj ed." Cod seems resolved to preserve the sanctity of holy things, and to bring into fierce judgment the soul that dares profane them. Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thou sand of his lords. In the heat of wine he commanded to be brought the sacred vessels which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple of God. They were brought, and from them wine was drunk to the honor of Baby lon's idols. Then came forth that mj sterious hand and wrote before the eyes of the terrified king ; wrote slowly, while each stroke sent a shiver through the roj'al sinner's bones. And now comes Daniel "in whom was the spirit of the gods" thought the trembling monarch ; in whom wa the spirit of the Most High God. Daniel came lj cause he was sent for. This is gener ally the way. When the hand of God tails upon a blasphemer of his name it is God's servant whom the guilty wretch must see. And what does Dan iel say? "0 thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, a kingdom and majesty and glory and honor. But when his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride, he was driven from his kingly throne and they took his glory with him And they fed him with grass like oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the king dom of men. And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this ; but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of Heaven and they have brought the vessels of this house lefore thee, and thou and thy lords and thy wives and thy concubines have drunk wine in them ; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and of gold and of brass, iron, wood and stone. And the God in whose hands thy breath is and whose are all thy ways hast thou not glorified." Then went away the awful hand, but it left on the wall Bel- shazzar's doom. "In that night was Belshazzar the king slain"; this is the brief but fearful record of Belshazzar's end ; this the blasphemer's doom. No, not his end : only the dread beginning. Belshazzar went to meet his judge. He went to take hjs place at last before the judgment throne of his dishon- ered God, with you, and you, and me. But when we siand before him, friend, I hope through grace at last to be SUBSCRIPTION PRICE It oo NO. 12. able li My, "Lord, with all ray many sins, I hare sought to honor thy preat name." What hall you mt in that dread hour? But there U redemption for tb plasphemer. There is ciesiiainjc even for him. The Christ wh name yni have profaned ha shed hi bld U r your cv!iMr. ; and "ihe of J- u Chri-t hi Son cleannrth u f r m all mil" Come and tudi la thi foun tain and 1 clenu. Ye-, though jour in 1 s H-arlet they khnll ! m white as mow ; though they l pxl like orim wii they sh.ill 1 a wool. The Seal Anerlcan GirL Ed. H'k, in l.adi t' Jlomr Journal. The truest, le?t and (cetept typo of the Ame.ican girl of today d not tome fiom the home of wealth; d r steps out from a home where exiMf comforts rather than luxuries. She longs to the great middle claw that class which ha gien usthelvt Amer ican wifehfKid ; which ha given he!j- mates to the foremost American mer of our time ; which teaches its daugh ters the true meaning of love; hich teaches not only the manner of the drawing room but the practical life oi the kitchen us well ; which teacher iu girls tho resonsibilitie of wifehood and the great nest) of motherhood. Thee girls may not ride in their carriages, they may not wear the most exjamMve gowns, they may even help a little to enlarge the family income, but thec self-same girls are today the great bul wark ol American society, not only the present but of the future. Thev represent the American home and what is best and truest in sweet domestic life and they make the best wife for our American men. I have no patience with these theories that would feek' to place the average American girl in uiy other position than that whtch ?he oc cupies, ornament and rightfully holds the foremost place in our respect, our admiration and our love. She Is not the society girl of the day, and she is better for it. She knows no nuperficial life ; she knows only the life in a home where husband, wife and children are one in love, one in every action. She believes no woman to bo m sweet as her mother ; no man m good ns her fa ther. She believes that there are gol women and true men abroad In the world, and, thank God, her belief ie right. And that man will ever le hap piest who takes such a girl for his wife. Lend a Hand. Epuorth Herald. Iend a hand to the fearful. Lend a hand to the doubting. Lend a hand to the tempted. Lend a hand to souls in the hhadow. lend a hand to the student at school. Lena a hand to those who are having it hard. Lend a hand to those who are often misjudged. . Lend a hand to the poor, fighting the wolf from the door. Lend a hand to the soul crunhed with unspeakable lose. Lend a hand to those whose lives are narrow and cramjied. Lend a hand to the boy struggling bravely to cultivate his mind. Lend a hand to the warrior who i fighting battles alone. Lend a hand to thoHe Uon whose lives the eun seldom shines. Lend a hand to young people whose homes are cold and repelling. Lend a hand to those whose sur roundings are steadily pulling them down. Lend a hand to the sjirl who works, works, works, and knows nothing of recreation or rest. Lend a hand to the prodigal sister her life is as precions as that of the prodigal brother. Lend a hand an ojen hand, a warm hand, a strong hand, an uplifting hand, a hand filled with mercv and help. When Baby waa alck. w fa tor Ctorta When the wu a Child, ah cried for Caatoria When abe beoama Miam, aha done to Caatoria, When abe had CfcOdran, afe Srn Yot ApvntTtKjrr t Now. 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In pursuance of an order of court, to make assets, I will on the 3rd day of March. 1804, ell in the town of Scot land Neck at public auction that tract of land in Halifax county on which Mrs. Elizabeth Pender resided at her death and known as the Tender tract, bounded by the lands of Mrs. Whi ta ker, W. H." K itch in et a!-. Terms : One-third cash, the balsr.ee on a credit of six months, Mud with approved security, bearing 8 interest from day of sale, title retained until all the purchase monev i pa'd. Jan. 30, Jl. Tito-. L. rf.MKK, 1 1 4t Admr. Elizalieth Tender. T moiir. I ?sasssK
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