Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-22

bound to protect II is high treason against
natural law and high treason against God
added tn murder. That God is against
selfimmolation.
show you
A Rogues' Gallery
in the Bible, the pictures put there as .
warning to all men against this unnatural
deed. There hangs the headless trunk Of
Saul on the walls of Bathshan. Thir is the
great big coward who tried to Kill little Da-
vid, ten feet of stature chasing four. This
is the man who corsulted with the clairyoy.
ant, the witch of Endor Completely
whipped in battle, instead of surrending his
swors with dignity as hundreds Of heroes
have done, he asks his servant to kill him;
the servant declining the giant plants the
hilt Of his sword in the ground and turns
the sharpened point Of it up and tlings him
self upon it. And there his picture hangs
in the rogues gallery Of miscreants There
also is Ahithophel, the Macciaveli Of Bible
times. He betrayed David in prospect Of
being prime minister 10 Absalom and
joined that fellow in his attempt at patri
eide. Ahithophers change OF politics not
securing him what he wanted. be took q
snort cut out Of a disgraced life into q
suicides eternity; in First Samuel you have
his post mortem photograph. Yonder also
IS Abimelech, practically a selfmurderer.
While he was bombarding q tower woman
took grindstone from its place and drop
ped it upon his head, leaving just enough
life in his skull to say to his armor.bearer;
Draw thy sword and slay me that men say
not a woman slew him, and, thrust through
at his own command, he was practically a
suicide and his picture hangs in the gallery
among cowardly imbeciles,
But
The Hero of This Group
is Judas lscariot DR.. Donne in his cele.
brated book calls him celebrated martyr.
And in our time some have been his apollo
gists And what wonder, in this age which
has book Of Aaron Burr as patron Of
virtue, and which has monument recently
built to George Sand as a benefactor Of
literature, and which has cases ofbetrsyal Of
Christ among his pretended apostles 50
black that in the contrast Judas Iscariots
infamy is white But there he is, after sell
ing his master for about $l5, suspended by
his own hand for the execration Of all CEN
turies.
Notwithstanding all that the Bible says
against suicide and all the aversion il wolld
create by the ghastly and loathsome specta-
Gle Of those who hurled themselves out Of
life, and the fact that Christianity has al.
ways been against it by the arguments and
the useful lives and illustrious deaths Of It's
disciples the fact is alarmingly patent that
suicide is on the increase, And everybody
asks why is IT'D charge the whole thing
upon the in6delity and agnosticism abroad
If there be no hereafter, or if that hereafter
is blissful, without reference to how We live
and how we die, why not
Swing Back the sliding Doors
between this world and the next? Why not
let all those who find this world uncomiort-
able pass right over into ElySiam3 Take
this fact for confederation In every case
OF suicide hat has ever been recorded the
perpetrator was either demented and hence
not responsible, or an infdcl | challenge
the universe and | challenge the ages for
one exception There never has been, III lre
never will be, man who took his own life
while appreciating the fact that he is i'm
mortal and that this Immortality will be
glorious or wretched, according to his re
ception of Jesss Christ as Savior or the re
lection of Him.
Let brazen in6delity stand up and get
its sentence. Its lip blistered with every
blasphemy, and its cheek Scared with
all tha
ruption OF the ages this satyr, this filthy
goat, this unclean buzzard OF nations, this
Ieper OF centuries. Stand up thou mon
ster, part man, part panther, part yulture.
part reptile and part dragon. and take the
sentence for that thou art the instigator Of
self fmurder and thy hands are red with the
carnage in which thou hast washed, and
thy feet crimson with the human gore
through which thou hast waded. Go down
seuenesd 10 the pit and sup on the sobs
anG groans OF the families whom thou hast
blnsted, and roll on the bed Of knives
which thou hast sharpened for others, and
thy music be the unending "miserere' Of
those thou hast damned. brand
.. InideIity and Agnosticism
with the crime of all those who in posses
zion Of their mind committed self-slaughter
during the last century.
Ny hearers, il you ever. because life BY
reason Of its trials and molestations is un-
bearsble, should be tempted to quit it at
your own bebest, do not condemn yourself
above ali others. Christ himself was tempt
ed to cast himself down from the roof OF
the temple; but as he resisted 90 resist ye.
Christianity comes in TO medicine all our
wounds and give us victory. Above all let
US realize that there is around our earthly
life rim which il is most perilous for US 10
break. All around this brief life is rim be-
yond which is eternity, and We had better
keep out Of it till God breaks the rim, thin,
but important which is separates this from
that To GO out Of present ills, don't rush
into greater misfortuLes. Don't, TO get rid
Of swarm Of summer insects, plunge
INTO q Jungle OF Bengal tigers
There is sorrowfnl world aud
one so radiant that the MONDAY sun is but
one Of its lower doorsteps. and the aurors
that lights up the northern heavens, con-
astronomers a. to what IL can be-
IS only one of the banners Of its procession
come out TO conduct a cosqneror from
church militant to church triumphant And
you and ] have ten thousand reasons tor
wanting TO 20 there. But we shall not
Ter ch il either by sell immolation or BY i'm
T4nitency. All our sins elain by the stroke
OF Him who came TO do that and nothing
che, we want 10 90 in at the time diyinely
selected and from bed diTinely spread
And then the elang Of the septlchral gate
bebind US will be drowned out by the clsng
Of the opening Of the solid pearl before Us
o God, whatever others may choose give
tne the Christians hope and Christians
life, and CArisdan's death, and the Chris
rian's burial and the Christians immor.
ialiiy.
THE CHOLERA.