THE LAW ON PROFANITY.

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Profanity is a very common sin, but one that is ex-
ceeding sinful. Wesee in this picture the sad fate of one
who was profane. He blasphemed against.God, and the
Lord commanded those who heard him to stone him to
death. What asad way to die. Yet this was the law as
God gave it to. the Jews.

This man was a Danite. You will find the story in
the twenty-fourth chapter of Leviticus. If God ever com-
manded a man to be stoned to death for swearing, what
a terrible sin it must be. We have no such punishment
for profanity now, but it is no less a great sin.

And, if God does not punish the profane man at once,
the day is coming when he certainly will. Hear his com-
mandment, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord
thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless
that taketh his name in vain.’

A great many little boys get in the cae of swearing
before they know how dreadful it is. But we may remem-
ber that God is just the same now as he was when he
gave the law to Moses. What he hated two thousand
years ago he hates to-day. So, when we swear, we not