The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-15

And rides upon the storm.
"Blind unbelief is sure TO err
And scan his work in vain;
God is his own Interpreter
And he will make it plain.
While we make this merciful and right
eous alowa &c ia regard to those who were
rlunred into mental inCoherence, dec are
that that man who, in the Use of his reason
bv his own act, snaps the bond between has
body and his soul, goes straight into perdi
tion. Shall prove it! Revelation xxi, 8:
.Murde rers shall have their part IN the lake
which burleth wi h fire and birthstone y
Revelation xxi, Is: WITHOUT are dogs,
and sorcerers, and whorem0ngers, and muir
derers" You do not believe the New les
lament? Then perhaps YOU believe the Ten
Commandments: "lnou shalt not kill.
Do YOU say all t csc Yassage refer to tie
taking of the lie Of others Then ] ask you
If Won are not rs responsible for vour own
life as for & e life of others. God gave you
n special trust in your life He made You
the custodian of your life, as he made YOU
the custodian of no other life. He gave you
rs weapons with WHICH to defend 1t two
arms to strike back assailants two eyes to
watch for invasion, AMI a natural love Of
life which ought ever to be IN the alert.
Assassination of Others is mild crime com
pared with the asSas ,luatiOl Of yourself,
because in the latter Gaze 1t Is treachery u
an especial trust; it is the surrender OF a
castle You were especially appol tel to keep;
i, is treason 10 natural law, anu lg is
treason TO God added to ordinary murder,
To show how G ID in the Bibe looked up
on is crime, I point yuu - the rogne's
picture gallery IL SO ne parts OF the BlbH,
the pictures Of the people VINO have COM
mitted this unuatua al crime. Here is the
headless trunk OF Saul on the walls Of
Ba han. Here is the man who chased
lite David-ten lie in stature chasing
four. Here is the man who consulted Il
clajrvovant, Witch Of Endor. Here is a
man. who, whipped i'll battle, instead If
surrendeiing his sword with dignity, as
mauy a man has done, asks his servant to
slay hi,a, and when the servant dech les,
tle1 the giant plants the hit of the sword
H. the earth. the sharp point sticking up
waid aid lie throws his body on it ami eX
pres, the coward, the suicide. Here is
AhitnOphel, the Machiavelli OF olden times,
batrayIng his best friend David
in order that lie may become prime minis
ter of a SALON., ard joining that fellow in
his attempt at parricidc. Not getting what
he wanted by change If politics, he takes
short cut out at a dlegraced life into the
suicide etern1ty. Tb,re he is, the nitrate
Here is A inelech, practically a suicide
He IS with an army, bonbarding a tower,
when woman in the tower takes grind
EiJIit ifuLu MS ilihNF tlltl ~ upon us
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 a woman slew me-" There Is his
p7st-morteDi photograph in the book of
Samuel But the hero of this group is
Judas Iscatjot. Dr.. Dome says he was a
martyr, and we have in our day apOlogiSts
for him. And what wonder, in this day
when we have book revealing Aaron b arr
of nj, rd [ax
we uncover a statue TO Georges Sand as the
beuefactress of literature, and in this day
when there are betrayals of Christ on the
part of some Of his pretended apdst es--a
BETRAYAL SO black il makes the infainy of
Judas IscaripC whit! Yet this man by his
own hand hung up for the execration Of all
the ages, Judas Iscariot.
All the good men and women of the Bible
left to Goothe decision of their earthly ter
minus, and they could have said with Job,
who had a right to commit suicide if any
man ever had-whet with his dest royed
property, and his body all afi4me with in
euffarable carbunclss, and everything gone
from his home except the chief curse of it,
a pestifeTous wife. and four garrulous peo-
PIE peIting him with comfortless talk, while
he sits on heap of FISHES scratching his
&C BIS with piece of broken pottery, yet
crying out in triumph: "All the days Of
my appointed time will l wait till my
change come"
Notwithstanding the Bible is against this
evil, and the aversion which it creates by
the loathsome and CHASTITY spectacle of
those who have hurled themselves out of
life, and notwithstanding christianity is
against it, and the arguments aud the use
fIl lives and the illuStrious deaths of its
disciples, it is a fact armingly patent that
suicide is on the increase
What is the cause2 l charge upon inf
deity and agnosticism this whole thing
III there be no hereafter, or if that hereafter
be blissful 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 existence here
becomes troublesome, why not pass right
over into Elysiums Put this down among
your most solemn reflections, and cons der
1t after you go to your homes. There has
never been a case of suicide where the oper.
stor was not either demented, aud there
fore irresponsible, or an infidel Ichalenge
all the ages, and | challenge the whole uni
verse. There never has been a case of self
destruction while in full appreciation OF
his immortality, and of the fact that that
immortality would be glorious or wretched
according as he accepted Jesus Christ or re
jected him.
You say it is business trouble, or you
say it is electrical currents, or it is this, or
it is that, or il is the o. her thing Why no;
go clear back, my friend, and ackno wledge
that in every case it is the abdication OF
reason or the teaching of intidelity which
practically say: If you don't like this life
get oat al it, and you vii. land either Ia
humiliation, where there are no notes TO
pay, no prosecutions to suffer no govt Il
torment, or you will land where there will
be everything glorious ard nothing to pa,
for it," lnhdelity ALWAYS has been apollo
Retlc for se,f-immolatlon. After Tom
faine's Age of Reason" was published anC
widely read there was a marked increase oil
sell-slaughter
A man in London heard Mr. Owen de
liver his infidel lecture ON Socialism, aDt
went home, sat down ami wrote the,
words: Jesus Christ is one of the weak
est characters in history, and the bible i
the greatest possible deception and tnel
shot himself. David Hume wrote thes
words: 1T would be no crime for me t
divert the Nile or the Danube from its nat
ural bed. Where, then, can be the crime il
my diverting a few drops Of blood iron
their ordinary channslr' And, havinj
written the essay, he loaned it TO friend
the friend read it, wrote a letter OF thank
and admiration, and shot himself Ap
pendix to the same book.
Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne
under certain circumstances, were apollo
getic for self-immolation. Infidelity Put
up no bar to peoples rushing out from thi
world into the next. They teach Us it doe
not make any difference how you live her
or 90 ont of this world Won will land eli he