Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-19

hypocnadris he resolved to take his own
| life, and rode 20 the river Thames, but
found man seated on come goods at
the very point from which he expected to
spring, and rode back 10 his home, and
that night thew himself upon his own
knife, but the nlsde broke; and
then he hanged himself to
the ceiling, but tie rope parted. No
wonder that when God morcifully deIiv-
cred him fro a, that awful Dement'S he
sat down snd wrote that other hymn just
as memorable:
God moves N q mysterious way
| His wonders to I erfora;
he plants His footsteps m the sea,
| And rides upon the storm.
Blind unbelief is sure to er:
And scan BIS work in vain;
| Sod is his own interpreter,
And He will make 1t plain.
While we make this merciful and right
eous allowance in regard to those who
we're plunged into mental incohererce, l
declare that thSt man who in the use OF
| his reason, by his Own set, snaps the
! bond between his body and his soul, goes
straight into perditicn. Stall prove il?
R5veistloH 81: 8: "Murderer5 shall have
| tnsir part IN tos lake which bnrEeth With
ti;e aud birthstone" Ravelstlcn %: Is:
"Withou. are dogs, snd sorce.ers, spd
horemorgers, and muIderera." You do
not believe the NaW restsmeo'? Then,
| perhaps, you believe the Ten Command
ments: "Fhou shalt not kill" Do You
ssy al these passages refer
70 the taking cf the life
| Of otte?s? Tnen sek you If ycu are
not as responsible for yaur own ilfe as for
the life If otnefEP GOD gave you spe-
cial jIust in Jour iife He MADE you the
custodian o. your life SIS He made you
ne custodian % no Other llia. He gave
you SO weapons with which TO dsierd Il
wo arms 20 striSe bssE essstlaLt', wv
eyes to watch Tor Invasion, and Il EeturSl
love OF life which ought ever TO be on me
alert. A9saseipstioa % others ts milo
crime Compared with the assassination OF
yourself, 0oCause 10 the ls5ter case il is
JFescher9 20 an especial trust, II il the
surrender Cf castle sou were especially
appointed to keep, Il Is treason to Z ra:u
rat law and il is treason to God added 10
oIdinsry murder.
To show how God IN the Bible looked
uron this crime, /. point you 10 tbs
rugue's pfclure gallery in scme parts of
the Bible, the pictures OF the people who
have committed this unnatural crime.
Here is the hesdlees trunk OF Saul OF TIE
walls OF Bsthsh.n. Here is the msn who
chased little David-teR feet IA stature
clssing four. Here Is the man who con-
suited s clsiryoYs1t, Witch OF Eudor.
Here is man who, Whigpedsin battle, in
stesd @;
sURRENDBRING BIS SWORD
With dignity, IS many man has done,
ssk5 his servant TO slsy him; and wher
tie servant declines, then the giaut plants
the hilt Of the sword in the earth, the
sharp point sticking upward, ana Re
throws his body on 1t sEd expires, the
coward, toe suicide. Here is Ahithophel,
the Machiaveln OF olGen times, bstrGylng
his best friend, David, in order tnat he
msy become Prime Minister CT AbssloD,
ard joining that fellow in his atsempt s:
psrrlcide. Not getting what he wanted
i oy change Of politics, be :skes short cut
Gu. Of disgraced life into the suicids's
eternity. There he is, the iDgrato.
Here ia A5imeiech, practically sui
eide. BE is with an army, OOaosrding
tower, when s woman in the tower takes
= grinds tone from It's place md drops It
upon his head, and with What life he haa
! lsfi in Ills cracked skull he commands his
s1m3r besrer: "Draw thy sword and
slsy ,tae, Lest men say woman slew me-"
Tbess is lis post mCr:em photograph Ia
| tie book Of Samuel. But the nero CT tia
tecGhp Is Judas IscsT!Ot. DR.. Dome ssys
khe was a martyr, and we have
lin our day spoiogists for him. AID
what wonder, in thi5 day Whan We have
book revealing h&con Burr rs Qa.tern
CT vi1lue, and il this day when; we IN
cover statute t0 JGeoTge Sand ss the
| 6enefAcGress OF li;erstaEs, aud ir,this day
1hen there axe betyay2ls.6t Chri5s on the
psrt OF some Of DIS p-etended aFbs t!eg-
q betrayal SO bIsckit Eskeo tGe:EthLny OF
Judas Iscsri,t white .ttYet tSis 'msp, ~
his own hand hung up f1 -ths * sG{ttlon-
OF nIl the ages. Judas Iscario:.
| All the good men snd women ~ the
R;ole lett TO Cad the decisiop.sf their
earthly terminus, and they coyEd hava
ssid with Job, who had rigaSto CON-.
NIT suicide & any msB ever nsd-HaAs
with his destroyed property, End his body
all afsme with irsuns7Sole csrbuncLI,
and everything gone from his home tx
capt the chief curse Of 1t,
! PEsTIFRRoUs WIFE,
snd four garrulous people pelHng him
with comfortloss talk while ne sits On
heap OF ashes scratching his scsbs with E
piece OF broken pottery, yet crying out in
triumph: "Ail the dags CT my appointed
time will wait til nag charge come"
| Not Iitnstsndiug the Bioie is against
this evil. snd the aversion which it
creates By the losthsome and Gh1stly
| spectacle Of those who have hurled them
selves out Ct life, aud notwithstanding
Christisnity is against it, and the srgu-
ments and the useiul lives and the illus
! trious deaths of its disciples,sslt is fact
alarmingly patent that suicide is on the
increase.
Whist is the Gauge? l chsrge upon inf
deity and agposticism this whole thing.
| II there be nc herestGer, or II that here
| sitter De Dlissful without reference to how
We live and how we die, Why not move
back the folding doors between this
world and the next? And when our eX-
istence here becomes troublesome, wig
not pses right over into EIysium? Pot this
down among your most solemn reflections.
snd consider /. after you 60 to your
homes; there has never been c.se OF
suicide where the operator was not either
demented, apd therefore irresponsible, or
81 inddel. I challenge al the ages snd l
| challenge the whole universe. There
never mas been case Of self destruction
while Ia full appreciation Of his immor-
tality and of The fact that that immOrtsl-
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