Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-26

out OIL TINS WOrlu. you Will land eithel
in an oblivious nowhere or q glorious
somewhere. And infidelity holds the
upper end of the rope for the suicide
and aims the pistol with which man
blows his brains out, and mixes the
strychnine for the last swallow. Ifinti-
deity could carry the day and persuade
the majority of people in this country
that it does not make any difference how
you go out of the world you will land
safely. the Hudson and the East rivers
would be SO full of corpses the ferry
boats would be impeded in their pro
gress, and the crack of n suicides pistol
would be no more alarming than the
rumble of q street car.
| have sometimes heard it discussed
whether the great dramatist was a Chris
tian or not. l do not know, but / know
that he consid cred appreciation ola flu
ture existence the mightest hindrance to
self destruction:
For who could bear the whips and scorns of
The oppressor's wrong, the proud mans con-
tumely,
The panss OF despised love, the laws delay.
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When He Himself might His qnietus make
With bare bodkin? Who would fardels benr
10 grunt and sweat under weary life,
But that the dread of something after death
me undiscovered country, from whose bourne
No traveller returns-puzzles the will?
Would God that coroners would be
brave in rendering the right verdict and
when in a case of responsibility They
say: while this man was demented he
took his life;' in the other case lay:
Having read infidel books and attended
infidel lectures, which obliterated from
this mans mind all appreciation Of any
thing like future retribution, he con-
mitted self-slaughter
All! Intidclity, stand up and take thy
sentence! In the presence of God and
angels and men. stand up, thou monster,
thy lip blasted with blaspheiny. thy
check scared with lust. thy breath foul
with the corruption of the ages! Stand
up, Satyr. filthy goat, buzzard of the na-
tions, leper of the centuries! Stand up.
thou monster Infdelity! Part man, part
panther. part reptile, part dragon, stand
up and take thy sentence! Thy hands
red with the blood in which thou hast
washed, thy feet crimson with human
gore, through which thou hast waded,
stand up and take thy sentence! Down
with thee to the pit and sup On the sobs
and groans of families thou hast blasted
and roll on the bed of knives which
thou hast sharpened for others. and let
thy music be the everlasting miserere of
those thou hast damneG brand the
forehead of intidelity with all the
crimes of self-immolation for the last
century on the part of those who had
their reason.
My friends, if ever your life, through
its abrasions and it's molestations,
should seem to be unbearable, and YOU
are tempted to quit it by Your own be.
hest. do not consider yourself as worse
than others. Christ himself was tempted
to cast himself from the roof of the tenn
pie; but as He resisted, so resist We.
Christ came to medicine all our wounds.
In Your trouble I prescribe life instead
of death. People who have had it worse
than you will ever have it have gone
songful on the way. Remember that
God keeps the chronology of Your life
with as mach precision as he keeps the
chronology of nations, your death as
we'll as your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, just al
midnight, the destroying angel struck
the blow that set the Israelites free from
bondage? The four hundred and thirty
years We're up at II o'clock that night.
The four hundred and thirty years were
not up at Ii. and l o'clock would have
been tardy and too late. The four hun
dred and thirty years We're up at u
o'clock, and the destroying angel struck
the blow, and Israel was free. And
God knows just the hour when it is time
to lead you from earthly bondage. BY
his grace make not the worst of things,
but the best of them. If you must take
the pills. do not chew them. Your ever
lasting rewards will accord with your
earthly perturbations, Just as Caius gave
to Agrippa chain of gold as heavy as
had been chain of iron. For the ask
ing-and do not know to whom speak
in this august assemblage, but the word
may be especially appropriation your
asking you may have the same grace that
was given to the Italian martyr Algerius,
who, down i'll the darkest of dungeons.
dated his letter from the delectable or
chard OF the Leonine prison."
And remember that this brief life of
ours is surrounded by rim, very thin
put very important rim. and close up to
that rim is great eternity, and you had
better keep out of it until God breaks
that rim and separates this from that
To get rid of the sorrows Of earth. do
not rush into greater SORROWS. To get
rid OF swarm of summer insects, lean
not into jungle of Bengal tigers.
There is sorrowless world. and it is
SO radiant that the MONDAY sun is only
the lowest doorstep and the aurora that
lights up the northern heavens, CON
founding astronomers as to what it can
be, is the waving of the banners of the
procession come to take the conquerors
home from church militant to church
triumphant, and you and 1 have ten
thousand reasons for wanting to go
there, but we will never get there either
by self immolation or impenitency. All
our sins slain by the Christ who came to
do that thing, we want to go in at just
the time divinely arranged. and from a
couch divinely spread, and then the sep
ulchral gates behind US will be overpow-
cred by the clang of the opening of the
solid pearl before us. O God, whatever
others may choose, give me Christians
life, a Christians death, Christians
burial, o Christians Immortality.
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