The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-01

statue to George Sand as the benefactress Of
and in this day when there are
betrayals Of Christ on the part OF some OF
His pretended apostles-a betrayal SO black
it makes the infamy of Judas lseariot whitel
Yet this man by his own hand hung up LOT
the execration of all the ages, Judas iscariot.
All the good men and women OF the bipie
left to God the decision OF their earthly
terminus, and they could have said with
Job, who had a right to commit suicide u
any man ever hadIThats a WIN w M insuifsr
BE carbuncles, aud everything gone hom
his home except the chief curse Of II, pes
tiferous wife, and four garrulous people peit-
ing him with comfortless talk while ne sits
on heap of ashes scratching his scabs with
piece of broken pottery, yet crying out IN
triumph: IAN tho days of my appointed
time will wait till my change come
Notwithstanding the Bible Is against this
evil, and the aversion which 1t creates by the
loathsome and CHASTITY spectacle OF those
who have hurled themselves out OF life, ana
notwithstanding Christianity IS against ~,
and the arguments and the useful lives anu
the illustrious deaths OF its disciples, it is a
fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on the
increase.
What is the causel Icharge upon Inf.
deity and Agnosticism this whole thing IL
there be no hereafter, or II that hereafter Dc
bissful without reference to how We 1--we
and how we die, why not move back the
folding doors between this world and the nexts
And when our existence here becomes trouo-
lesome, why not pass right over into Elysiumi
Put this down among your most solemn re-
flections and consider it after you go TO your
homes; there has never been n case OF suicide
where the operator was not either demented;
and therefore irresponsible, or an intidel. l
challenge all the ages, and l challenge the
universe There never has been case OF
self-destruction while in full appreciation OF
his immortality and of the fact that that inn
mortality would be glorious or wretched ac-
cording as he accepted Jesus Christ or reJece'
ed Him.
it is electrical currents, or 1t IS TINS, or IL
is that, or it is the other thing. Why not
20 clear back, my friend, and acknowledge
That in every case it is the abdica-
ton of reason or the teaching OF infi-
deity which practically says: "if you don't
like this life. get out OF 1t, and you VIII
land either in annihiiation, where there are
| no notes to pay, no prosecutions to suffer- no
| govt to torment, or you will land where
| there will be everything glorious and moth
| ing to pay for it," Intidelity always has
been apologize for self.immolaton. After
Tom Paine's age of Reason" was published
and widely read there was marked increase
of self-slaughter.
| A man In i,ondon nearu Mr.. owen deliver
his niidel lecture on Socialism, and Went
home. sat down, and wrote these words:
Jesus Christ is one of the weakest characters
in history, and the Bible is the greatest pos
sible deception and then shot himself:
David Hume wrote these words: III woulo
be no crime for me to divert the Nile or tne
Danube from its natural bed. where then
can be the crime in my divertlng rev drop:
of blood from their ordinary channel!" And
having written the essay he loaned it to
friend. the friend read it, wrote letter o.
thanks and admiration, and shot himself
Appendix to the same book.
Rousseau, Votaire, Gibbon, Montague
under certain circumstances were apologize
for self.immolation. Inidelity puts up M
bar to peoples rushing out from this worlt
into the next. They teach US it does no
make any difference how you live here or g
out of this world, you will land either II
an oblivious nowhere or glorious some
where And inidelty holds the upper end
the rope for the suicide, and aims the pisto
with which man blows his brains out
and mixes the strychnine for the las
swallow. II infdelity could carry the da..
and persuade the majority OF people IN thl
country that it does not make any dlirerenc
how YOU go out of the world you will Ian
safely the Hudson and the East river woul
, be so full of corpses the ferryboats would 2
impeded in their progress, and the crack OF
suicides pistol would be no more alarmin
, than the rumble Of street car.
, have sometimes heard it DISGUISE
i whether the great dramatist was Chrlstla
or not. do not know, but l know that /
t considered appreciation OF future e1istene
= fhe mightiest hindrance to self destruction
: "For who could bear the whips and scorns OF tim
Y The oppressor's wrong, the proud mans contumei
. The pangs Of desps'd love. the laws delay,
The insolence of office. and the spurns
:, That patient merit Of the unworthy takes,
u When he himself might his quietus make
:. with bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
e To grunt and sweat under weary ilie,
a But that the dread Of something after DEAN
Il The undiscovered country, from whose pourne
. No traveller rcturns-puzzes the wnl2"
n Would God that the coroners would
!. brave in rendering the right verdict, an
(, when in case of responsibility they sa.
/. ljfe:n in the other case say: Having res
" infidel books and attended infidel lecture
n which obliterated from this mans mind
- appreciation of anything like future ret'
II button, he committed self-slaughterr
is All! 'Infidelity, stand up. and take tiny Sc
n, tencel In the presence OF God and ange1
,e and men, stand up, thou monster, thy
in blasted with blaspbemy, thy cheek SCARF
Il corruption CORR of the ages! Stand
Of satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the \
n. lions, leper of the centnriesl Sta
ii; y, thou monster 1nfidelityl "a
hi man, p-rt ,.satner, part reptile, part dragc
a stand up ard take thy SENTENCED Thy han
" raj with the blood in which thou hi
u, washed, thy feet crimson with the hum
40 gore through which thou hast waded stand
'r and take thy sentenced Down with thee to
ST pit AMI sup on the sobs and groans OF famll
ou thou has blasted, and roll on the bed OF kni'
II, which thou hast sharpened for others, a
at let thy music 10 the everlasting miserere
o. those whom thou hast damned brand
ne forehead of iniidelity with all the crimes
self immo alton fer the last century on
W. part of those who had their reason.
Is, My friends, il ever your life through
lao abrasons and its moiestations, should Sc
u to be unbearable, and you are tempted
81, quit it by your own behest, do not consi
es yourself as worse than Others Christ hi
III sell was tempted to cast Himself from
10 roof of the Temple, but as He resist
.er SO resist ye. Christ came to medic
lne all our wounds. In your trouble l prescr
Ok life instead of death. People who have
ne, it worse than you will ever have it have G
WI songful on the way. Remember that
"a "a keeps the chronology of your life will
81. much precision as tie keeps the chronol
ue. Of nations, your death as well as your era
SAT Why was it that at midnight, just at n
night the destroying angel struck the D
that set the Israeites free from bonds
The four hundred and thirty years were
at twelve O'Clock that night The four h
drel and thirty years were not up at ele'
and one o'clock would have been tardy
too late. The four hundred and thirty y
were up at twelve clock, and the destroy
angel struck the blow and Israel was
And God knows just the hour when it is
ous to read you up from earthly bondage.
,ere His grace make not the worst of things,
are the best of them If you must take the +
on do n It chew them. Your everlasting
he wards will accord with your earthly
rd;s turhations, just as Caius gave to Aggrp
3. chain of gold rs heavy as had bee
a,ka chain of iron. For the asking-and dc
ne know to whom speak in this august ass
are blage, but the word may be especially
ore. propriate-for your asking you may. /
not the same grace that was given to the lta
ans. martyr, Algerius, who, down in the dar
hou of dungeons, dated his letter from ''th,
,ges lectable orchard of the Leonine prison
hen And remember that this brief life of
for is surrounded by rim, a very thin but
God important rim, and close up to that rim
He great eternity. and you had better keep
He Of it until God breaks that rim and sepa
lifa this from that To get rid of the sorro,
,ich earth do not rush into greater sorrows.
rike get rid of swarm of summer insects,
It III not into jungle of Bengal tigers
hich There is sorrowless world, and it is S
ton diant that the MONDAY sun is only the
the | oct dOorstep and the aurora that i