Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-15

life, and rode to the river Thames, bu
found q man seated on some goods a
the very point from which he expected &
spripP, and rode bsck 10 his home, an
that night threw himself upon his ow
knife, but the b.de broke; an
then he hanged hinself t
The ceili1g, but the rope parted. N
wonder inst when G ID morcifullY deliv
cred him from that awful dementin be
sat down and wrote thst other hymn Is
as memorable:
God moves IN a mysterious way
His wonders to erfOTm;
he plants His footsteps IN the sea,
And rides III on the storm.
B!ind uubelIef 1, .lre to err
Aad scan His WORK In vain;
God IS hls oxn inteTGreter.
A1d He Will ma q p.Sil.
While We make this m6rcfGl and right.
eoue allowance IL regsrdto those who
were plugged into mental iEcohererce,
daCieie snAt thss nan who ia She use OF
his resso2, by Lis own GGg, snaps the
bond oetGesn his b1jy ma ais soul, goes
s;rs!gAt into reIdl'ir!. S al J. prove it?
Z -velailUa 81: 8: "Mu:derer5 shiu have
taeir part III the lake Waich burnerh with
fire aud bins .oae" r veietIon o.: Is:
"Wiihout ere dCgs, ard aorcerer-, and
wlortmopgers, epd nu.derers." You DO
not believe the N9T rts.Smen'? rnep,
perhaps, you believe the Ten Comn.n1-
msnts: Thou shalt not kill" Do you
say all these passages rtfer
20 the tskiag If the life
of otheI? Then / Ssk you If you are
not as Responsible your own life IS for
the life f other? G IS gave You s spe-
cial trust 10 ycur life. He made you the
custodian OF your life IS he made you
the custodian Of no other life. He gave
you SIS weapons with which to defend i:
TWO srms to strike beck essailSnt two
eyes TO watch for INVASION, and 8 natural
Iowa OF lie which ought ever to be on the
alert. Assassination OF others Is 8 mild
crime compared with the asesssioation Of
yourself, because In the latter case 1t is
tfsscaery tc en- cape ciel trust, II il the
surrender Of castle you were especially
appointed TO keep, 1t is treason to q na:u.
rsI law snd it is treason to God added TO
ordinary murder.
To show how God IN the Bible looked
upon this crime, l point you to tins
rogus's picture gallery in scm3 parts OF
the Bible, the pictures of the people who
Here 10 the heaoless trunk OF Saul on the
walls CT BAthshan. Here is the man who
chased little David-!en feet in SEIZURE
Chasing four. Here Is the man who con-
suited clsirvoysnt, Witch Of Erdor.
Here is NAN who, VIII. psdtin battle, in
stead OF
sURRENDERING BIS SWORD
with dignity, IS many smsn has done,
asks his servant to slsy him; sad when
the servant declines, then the giant plants
the hilt OF the sword In the earth, the
sharp point sticking upward, snd he
throws bis body on II and expires, the
coward, the suicide. Here is Aa.th ophe',
the Machisvelll OF Glden times, betraying
his best friend, David, in order that he
msy become Prime Minister Ct Absslon,
ana joiniFg thst fellow in bis s.tempt az
p.rricide. Not getting what he wanted
by change Of politics, he takes short cut
out OF 8 disgraced LIE into the suicides
eternity. There he Is, the migrate.
Here is A5imelec5, practically sui
eide. he Is with an army, bombarding q
tower, when q woman IN the tower takes
grlnde tone from its plsce aud drops It
upon his head, and with what life he hss
left in his cracked skull be commands his
amor bearer: "Drsw thy sword and
slay me, lest men say woman slew me-"
There Is his post mortem photograph In
tins opok Of Samuel. But the nero CT this
group is Judas Iscsriot. DIR. D onns says
he was martyr, and We have
in cur day spologis.s for hin. Aud
what wonder, in this day when We have
book revealing Aaron Burr as a pattern
of virtue, and in this day when We Iu
cover statute to George Ssnd as the
bsne;sctress of literature, ana 10 this dsy
when there are betrsyalS Of Christ on the
psrt Of some Of His pretended apostles
betrsysl 90 black /. makes the iDf.my OF
Judas Iscari white! Yet this msn by
his own hand hung up for the execra.ion
of sill the ages, Judas 1:cariot.
All the good men and women Of the
Bible left to God the decision CT their
earthly terminus, and they could, have
ssid with Job, who nsd right TO com
init suicide If sny man ever nsd-What
with his destroyed property, and his body
all 6fams with insuSsraole carbunclee,
and everything gone from his home ex
cept the chief curse Of It,
PKsTIFERoUs WIFE,
and four garfulous people pelting him
O
hesp OF ashes scratching his scabs with q
Piece Of broken pottery, yet crying out in
triumph: can the days CT my appointed
time will wait till nv charge come"
withstsnding the Bible is sgsinst
this evil. and thu aversion which it
crestes by the losthsome and CHASTITY
spectacle Of these who have hurled them
selves out Of life, and notwithstanding
Christianity is agslost it, and the srgu.
ments and the useful lives and the illus
trlous deaths of Its disciples,..lt is q fact
s!armingly patent that suicide is on the
increase
What is The c.usl? l charge upon inf
deity end agnosticism this whole thing.
II there be no hereafter, or II this. here
after be plissiul without reference to how
We live and how we die, why not move
back tue folding doors between this
wcrld sid the mex? And when our ex-
istence here becomes troublesome, why
not p.ss right over into E .ysium? Pat this
down among cur most solemn reflections.
and consloer it after you go to your
homes; there has never been CESS OF
suicide where the operator WAS not either
demented, and therefore irresponsible, or
an infdel. I challenge sll The ages ana l
CHALLENGE the whole universe There