Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-27

AMER MS no tlfif htd ceased tHfObHIHt
TINT winter night in his stady AT Porto
helio" Alnrng them Cnticst.o. earth az,
Tx. mightiest Of beaycm.
~ one doubted the picty Of William
Fovpcr, the author oftiiose ,Teat hymEs
on. For a Closer Walk With God
What Various Hip1Tauces We Nea
There L. n Fountain FILLED Witt
BloC7." William Cowpcr, who shore
with Isaac Watts and Charics Wesley gh'
chief horrors Of Christian hymologv. II
IypocohpdTia be caclvcd 10 take Dis2wi
life aud rode 10 the river Thames, hu'
sound a man seated on some goods at th,
very point from w3lich he expected tC
spring and rode back 20 his home ant
that night threw himself upon bis own
knife, but the blaze broke. and thel h,
hanged himself tc tue ceiling, but The
lop" parted no wonder that When GOD
Incredibly delivered him from that ewfuI
dcmcEtia he sat down and wrot, that
other hymn iust Us memorable:
Good moves IN & mysterious way
Ms wonders Il pe .iotm-
He plants Ills tY9t7tep. IN he sea,
And rides uion tee storm.
"Bliul uDbplief is sure 10 err
Aud scan Hts wotk IN vain;
God Is Ills oNn Interpreter,
And He viii make It pain.
Wn!le We M Ike this merciful and
! righteous allowance in regard To th0sc
who were plunged into mental incGher-
Cncc, | declare 4Eat that nan who III the
use Of his reason, by his Own ACT, snaps
the bond between his body and MS sDul
goes straight into perd.tion. shall
prGTe itr Revelation u: 6; "Murdtrera
Snail have Their part in ;he lake which
hUInpth with TIRE and birthstone Ecv-
( clation -: IS. "WIthouttic dogs, and
sorccrcr., and wAeremOngers, and murder
crs You DO not believe The New les
|ttuent( Chen, perhaps yen believe she
Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not
kill 10 goa say al these passages re
Ter to the taxing Of the iife Of othecsr
Tken ! ask yon II ypu aIe not az rrspHl-
siblc for your own lfc "a for She life OF
others God gave you a special trust in
year Hic. lie mad you the custodian e.
yol. life a, ne made you tho custodiaK
OF no other fife. lie wave vou rs Wcap.
ous With which 20 Grs-pl 4, Two arms
wiki wt;ch u strike bacN ae3qiIants, two
eyes I'D watch for invasion, and a natural
love d A]c wl!ch ought ever 10 be on the
alert. Assassination Of others 10 a mild
crjmc compared with the assassination Of
yourself, because IN the latter case il is
lrcectcr5 20 Az especial trust. it is the
surrender of q castle you "cre especially
appointed 10 keep, it u treason 10 a nat
urai law and II i. treason 70 God addict to
Ordira.y murder.
TO show how God IN the Bible looked
Upon ta.s crime. ! point YOU 10 the rugue's
,,frg 90 ..l l.r,. -, conan ~ rte ,f fbn krtIn
The picture Of the people who have O4m-
mittcd this unnatural crime. iicrc is the
LcGdlvrs funk Of saul on the walls of
Ba;hsh9n. Here is the man who chased
little David-teu feet IN stature chasing
four. Here is the man who consulted q
Clairvoyant, Witch Of EndOr. Here is q
uan who, whipped in battle, instead OF
s~uircudeiing his sword with dignity, MS
many a man has done, asks his servant to
slay him; and when the servant declines.
then The giant plants the hilL Of the sword
III the earth, the sharp point sticking up
wGri, and he throws lis BODY on il and
expires, the coward. the suicide. Here
is AhilhoDhrl. the Machiavclii Of ollen
times, h~ctfayirg his best friend David in
order that he may become prime minister
Of Abs2lom, and Joining that fellow in
his attempt st par,ic!Gc. Not getting
what he wanted by change Of politics, lie
takes a short cut ont Of q dis2raacd life
into the suicides eternity. There he is,
the ingratcl
Here IS Abimclcch, practically 4 suic.
ide. lie is with an army. bOmbarGing a
tower, when a woman in the tower takes
a grindstone from It's place and drops il
Upon his head. and with what life he has
left in his cracked skull he commands his
armor- bearer: Draw thy sword and
Stay me, lest men say u woman slew me-
There is his post-mOrtcm photograph in
the BOOK of Samuel. But the hero of
this group is Judas iscariot. Dr.. Donnc
says he was a martyr. and We have IN our
day a~polOgists for him. And what won
der, III thiS day when we have a book
revealing Aaron Burr as u pattern of vir-
tue, and in this day when We a
statue TO George Sand as the bcucfactress
OF literature, and in this day when there
are betrayals Of Christ on the part of
some OF His pretended apostles-a be.
trayal SO hlaca it makes the infamy of
Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by
his W hand hung up for the execration
Of all the ages; Judas lscariot.
All the good men and women of the
Bible left TO God the decision of their
earthly terminus, and they could have
said with job, who had u right to commit
suicide If any man ever had-what with
his destroyed property, and his body all
atiame with insufIerable c%arbuncles. and
everything gone from his home except the
chief curse OF it, q pestifcrous wife, and
four %garrulous people pelting him with
comfortless talk while he sits on "a heap
Of ashes scratching his scahs with IA piece
OF broken pottery, yet crying out in tri-
umph: "All the days of my appointed
time will [ wait til! my change come"
Notwithstanding the Bible is against
this evil. and the aversion which it Gre
ates by the loathsomc and CHASTITY spec
tacle Of those who have hurled themselves
out of life, and notwithstanding Chris.
tianity is against it, and the arguments
and the useful lives and the illustrious
deaths of its disciples, it is a fact alarm
ingly patent that suicide is on the in
crease.
What is the causc' charge upon inf
deity and agnosticislu this whole thing.