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 . ^ degree of energy. Are you happ)-,Noah Webster will give you a thousand words with which to express your exhila-ration. Are j-ou righteously indignant, there are whole armories in the vocabu-lary, righteous vocabulary—whole armies of denunciation, and scorn, and sarcasm,. (207) 2o8 THE PATHWAY OF and irony, and caricature, and wrath. You express yourself against some mean-ness or hypocrisy in all the oath
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 . ^ degree of energy. Are you happ)-,Noah Webster will give you a thousand words with which to express your exhila-ration. Are j-ou righteously indignant, there are whole armories in the vocabu-lary, righteous vocabulary—whole armies of denunciation, and scorn, and sarcasm,. (207) 2o8 THE PATHWAY OF and irony, and caricature, and wrath. You express yourself against some mean-ness or hypocrisy in all the oaths that ever smoked up from the pit, and I willcome right on after you and give you a thousandfold more emphasis of denuncia-tion to the same meanness and the same hypocrisy in words across which no slimehas ever trailed, and into which the fires of hell have never shot their forkedtongues—the pure, the innocent, God-honored Anglo-Saxon in which Miltonsang, and John Bunyan dreamed and Shakespeare dramatized. There is no excuse for profanity when we have such a magnificent language—such a flow of good words, potent words, mighty words, words just to suit everycrisis and every case. Whatever be the cause of it, profanity is on the increase,and if you do not know it, it is because your ears have been hardened by the dinof imprecations so that j-ou are not stirred and moved as you ought to be by pro-fanities in these cities which are enough to br
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