Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-15

iCf H. lrnCellL7 always mas Seen apOl
getic for selt-immola.lon. After Tor
Palne's cage OF Rssson" WAS published
) aud widely read there was narke in
crosse Of self-slsughter.
A man in London heard Mr.. Owen de-
liver Lis infidel lecture on Socialism, sn(
! went home, sat down and wrote thes
words: "Jesus Chris, ia one OF IN,
weakest Characters in history, and ths
Bible Is the greatest possible deception,
and then snot himself. David Hume
wrote these words: at would be nc
CRIME for NE to divert the Nile or the
Danube from its nstursl bed. Where,
then, eau be the crime in my diverting q
few drops Of blood from their ordinary
channe2" And having written the essay
ne loaned 1t to q friend, the friend resd
| il, wrote letter Of thanks and admira-
ton, and shot himself. Appendix to the
same book.
RJussesu. Voitsire, Giboop, Montague,
under certain circumstances, we're apoio-
ogetic Tor ee!f-imnol.ion. JGfielIty
puts 1p no oar 10 peoples rUgh!ng GU.
from this world into the next. They
teach ~ It does not mske any dit.areLce
how you live mere or 60 Gu. If tais Worlc,
you vii! land either IN an ooiivious nc
where or q glorious somewhere. Aud in
fidelity holds the upper end OF the rope
tGr the eulcite, and aims the pistol win
wi iCh nan blows his brains out, sud
mixes the etrycaIine for the laet swallow
II infidelity could carry the Gay and per-
sGade the n: 0rigy Cf peCp.e in this
country tbs. il Go=s rot make any differ
erce how You go cut Of the world you
will lsld safely, the Hndson and East
rivers wtuld Ee 90 flIl CT cCTpses the
ferre0osts would be impeied ia their
progress, tnd the crack CT suicides pis
to- would BE- 10 more slarmiGs than the
II r:o!e Of street car.
! haVe sometimes heard 1t discussed
1tetcer the gree. Gr.mAtis: was Chris
ti@n ur Gos. do not KNOW, oul I know
tt-, ae considered appreciation of e
fu IRE tx!steLce tha mightiest hlndrance
10 self ce truc,ioD:
For or who could bear the whips and scorns
oftlLe
The oppresso,'s wrong. the proud mans con-
tumely,
The psngs of desI is'd love. the laws delay
The insolence IF office. and the sDurns
That pa lent merit o the unworthy takes,
When h himself might his quietus make
With q bare bodsin? Who woult farde!s bear,
To gran! an sWest IN Ter q weary life,
But that tie dread OF something after Death
ne unul5COVSreQ count ". rom whose
No traveller resurns-pazzles thu Will:
Would G ID that the corone7s would be
brave in rendering tina hight verdict, and
when In case If irresponsibili,y they
sly: "While this msn WAS demented he
took his life!r in the other case say:
Having read inf lei books and attended
irfiel Lectures, wbicl obhtereted froml
this mans mind all cppre cis.ioo Ct esy-
thing like future retFibui0n, he com
mitted seli- slaughter
An! iL6delitY stand up End take thy
sentence. IL the preseLce OF God and
angels and men, stand ny, thou monster;
thy lip blasted with bla>phamy, thy cheek
SCARED with lust, thy breath foul with
the corruption OF ages! Stand up, Satyr,
filthy goat, buzz2rd of the nations, leper
CT Via centuries! Sand up, thou mon
ster il fidelity! Part msr, par. panther,
part reptile, part dragon, stand up, and
tske thy sentence, Thy hands red with
the blood in Wi.ch thou hast washed, thy
feet crimson with ths human gore
through which thou hast wsdsG, stand up
and take thy sentence! Down with thee
to the pit ald sup On the
sohs and sroans Of families tho7 has
bissted, snd roll on the bed OF
knives which thou has shsrpeued for
others, and let thy music be the ever
lasting miserere Of those whom thou hast
damned brand the forehead of inf.
deity with eli the crimes of self immoIs
ton for the lis. century on the part CT
those who had their sson.
My friends, If ever your life through
its abrasions ard its molests .ions should
seem 20 be uubea.able, and you are
tempted to quit it by your own behest, do
not consider yourself as worse than
others. C1rist q mseli was tempted to
cast Himself from the roof OF the temple
but as He resisted, so resis. ye. Christ
came to medicine all our wounds. Ia
your trouble l prescribe life in.
stead of death. Peopl. who have
had 1t worse .han you will
ever have it have gone songiul on the
way. Remember tnst G ID keeps the
OF your life with as much pre-
cision as He keeps
The CHRONOLOGY OF NATIONS,
your death rs well as your cradle.
Why WAS 1t that a. midnight, Just at
midnigh', the destroying angel stru k the
blow thai set the Israelites frse from
oondsge? The $50 years we're up at ~
o'clock that night. TIE 430 years were
rot Cp at II, and l O'CLOCK would have
been tardg snd too late The 430 years
we're up a. y o'clock, and the destroying
angel struck the blow and Israel was free
And God knows just the hour when 1t is
time to lead you up from earthly bondage,
By His grace make not the worst OF
things, but the best of them. Iiyou mus.
lake the pills, do not chew them. Your
rewards will accord
with your earthly perturbstions,
Just as Caius gave to Agrippn q
;nain OF gold as heavy as had been 8
chain Of iron. For the asking-and l do
rot know to whom speak In this august
IS semblsge, but the word may be espe
,islly appropriations your asking you
may have the same grace that was given
TO the Italian martyr, Algerius, who,
DOWN in the dsrkes. Of dungeons, dateS
MS letter from "lhe delectsble orchard Oh
the Leonine prison.
And remember that tAis brief life Of
ours is surrounded by rim, c very thin
but a very important rim, and close up to
that rim Is great eternity, and you hsd
better keep out OF i. until God bresks
that rim snd separates this from thst. To
get rid OF the sorrows Of earth do not
rush into greater sorrows. To ge. Ri Of
! swarm Of GUNNER insects, lesp not into