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Show TIIE SIX OF CURSING. IT NOT ONLY OFFENDS, BUT INSULTS j ALMIGHTY GOD. , WTiat It Really Mc-n to Violate tlie Divine Coiumsi .: "Thoa Shalt ot Take the .an:c c.l ihe Lord Tliy G4 In Vain' ly Curf..;ix Another. There is nothing in heaven, nothing on earth, for which the Almighty Cod has so groat a rejr:ml as his own name. When Le speaks of the people of Israel, he says. "I will be their God. I wiil be in the midst of them. I will give them every frnice and every gift." and he tells us that he will crown his graces by putting his name upon th ia "and my name shall be amongst them." When the evangelist inspired want3 to describe to us the glory of heaven and the brightness of God's saints, he tells us that the highest glory in heaven will be to have the name of God writteu upon our foreheads. "For I ' beheld an hundred forty-four thousand. i and they followed the Lamb, for they were the first fruits of the blood of the jj Lamb, and they had his name and his Father's name written upon their fore- h heads." And this Is the name that the Hebrews of old were not permitted to mention, even in prayer; yet this is the name that the drunkard, or even the man who does not drink, but is addicted to cursing, will take upon every occasion. It Is nothing but "God" here and "God" there, and perhaps per-haps that awful habit of cursing, iu which the Almighty God is called upon to execute vengeance, as for instance when a man says "Damn you."' "Blast you!" or when a man tells another in i anger to "gc to hell!" or any of those I things. I Consider the insult that man offers to Almighty God. Listen: I will put it H before you in a few words as clearly as possible. The greatest insult that a 1 man can offer to God is to pass sen- I tence upon his fellow man and then " 1 call upon God to execute it. According to the laws of the land, if a man is guilty, if he is tried for any crime and brought before a judge and jury, when his trial is over and the Jury find him guilty, then the judge sentences him. For instance, after a trial for murder the judge passes sentence sen-tence upon him, and it is that "on such a day, at such an hour, you are to be put to death." Who executes this sentence? Will the judge do it? Ah. no; he is too high and dignified a personage. Will the . . sheriff do it? No. Will the humblest peasant do it? No. But when the day of execution comes a wretched creature crea-ture who was never seen before, who arrives In the night time and has a mask on his face, in order that no man may know who he is the common hangman comes with a mask upon his face and puts the rope round the man's neck and launches him into eternity. Now the man who curses his fellow man and -says to him "Damn you," "Blast you." "To hell with you." that man puts God into the position of the common hangman. lie says. "You have offendccT me; I am not able to damn you; I cannot send you to hell; j but I ask Almighty God to do it to carry out my sentence." I Actually, the man puts himself in the jj position of the judge of his fellow man, and then, with impudence and I audacity past all believing, he calls - I upon the eternal and omnipotent God jj ' to execute his sentence and damn his J fellow creature the greatest insult that can be offered to our Lord and our God! Exchange. ) -J |