The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-02-10

white with foam and SLAYER. and the whole
mouth, of yore 50 m%asiral, ginning
CHASTITY, like the icshless face 0f fcar-ralnt
I'd Death ! Is that YolsaiTe he who, with
wit, thought to shear the Son of God OF q"
his beams-with wit, to loosen the dreaG
full fastenings of the cross with wit, L"
| scoff at him who hung thereon while the
| blood and vater came rom ms blessed side
with wit to drive away those shadows OF
angels that were said to have rolled off the
stone from the mouth of the scpu' chrc OF
the resurrection-with wit 70 derde tho
ineffable glory of TRANSPORTED Godhead oil
the Mount, and the sweet and solemn sem
blance of the man Jesus in the garden
with wit, to darken all the DEGREES of Provi'
dcncc-and, with wit,
"'To shut tho EasesOf mercy on mankind"
His nurse told the visitors of Paine's aw-
mi life. During the day he sought to
escape from consciousness by the use of
large quantities of Intoxicating liquor. A
great part of his timc was spent in O state
of drunkenness. or the stupid sleep which
followed. He showed IN awful npprehen-
sion of being left, even for q moment, in
the dark. Lights were kept in his room
during the night and when. on one or two
occasions, these had accidentally been ex-
tinguisbed, he continued to knock with his
cane upon the floor, with tho utmost vio-
lence, and piteously to call for help, until
the nurse carried another light into the
room. He died in a few weeks after this
visit, in n state of misery which was hell
anticipated" Often, in his last days, he
calculated, when he supposed that he was
| alone, 80 Jesus Christi" 80 Godl"
"Oh Christ. have mercy upon mel"
"a Save me saye me |" His physician, n
pious man, who stood by his bed side when
he used some such expression, asked, do
you, then, believe in Jesus Christ, Mr..
Paine =" Opening his eyes and collecting
himself for n moment, he replied, 81 don't
want to believe anything"
He was buried upon his own farm. Mrs.
- was OH n visit to some friends. upon
an adjoining farm, ut the time of the flu
neral, and brought back n report of it from
some of his neighbors, who had the curl
osity to 60 to witness 1t. His remains
were followed by n very few, probably five
or six, of his infdel friends. After they
had dug n grave and let down the coffin,
one of the party took up q large stone and
dashed it into tho grave, with sufficient
violence to break the cofiin-lid, exclaiming,
Lie there and be damned You have
ruined me and my family for time and
eternity, and l leave my curse at your
grave" He had been n respectable man,
and had been drawn first into infidelity, and
then into drunkenness, by his association
with Paine and that curse wa the only
requiem Of the destroyer.
His friends and admirers showed no
respect for his memory, or delicacy in
speaking of his vices. Two of them, his
most intimate cronies-one of whom still
survives, supported by the charity Of Chris
tians-published an account OF his life, re-
vealing depths of baseness and depravity in
the mans character which Christians could
never have imagined, and would not pol,
lutte their minds by reading. 1t contained,
amongst other things an account of the
seduction of his friends wife, and of the
manner in which he and his paramour had
lived after their arrival in America. She
was then alive, and brought IN action for
libel against the author, which led to the
suppression of the work, though it is known
that some copies have escaped destruction,
and the testimony Of infidels to the charac.
ter of their leader may yet see the light.
DIR. Mason, of New York, in his contrast
OF the death of David Hume with that of
John Finley, says;
If you ask how many inddels close
their career in anguish, in distraction, in
n fearful looking-for of Judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall consume the adver-
haAANHs hbN tIhl'sH IL blG ~ VI ltbtucS Z.
how piercing their cry ! That arch. BIAS
phemer, V~oltRire, left the world with hell
anticipated and we hear so frequently of
his disciples going to their own place in n
simi!ur manner, mat the dreadful narratives
lose their effect by rGpCtiticn. II was quite
recently that II youth In the state Of New
York. who had been dcbaucbcd by the Iib-l.
drous implcty az Paine. yielded up the ghost
with divers imprecations on the hour when
he II st saw an infdel book. and on the muir
deTcr who frst put II into his hands; but who
ever heard OF II dying man cursing the day
when he believed on Jesus Christ? such an
Instance never occurred. Nothing Is more
common than the peaceful death OF those
who AVE tasted that the Lord Is gracious.
They who see practical Christianity In re.
treats which the eye Of n profane philosopher
seldom penctrntcs, could easily MI long re-
cord OF dying-beds, softcncd with that bland
submission and chccrcd with that victorious
hope which threw so heavenly "a lust"r round
the bed OF Doctor Finley