Sharp County record., 1888-11-01

Nod from their ordinary chaunoA'
And having written the essay he loau'u
II 70 friend the friend read IT. "[oto q
iatter Of thanks and admiration ana Sno'
himself: Appendix to the same toi%ne DtoH'
Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon' Mon 'arSIC, al,
rnder certain circumstances, Welo "p
"ati ~atic for self. .immolation Infdellty Pu!S
nm no bar TO peoples rushing out OF .nis
rorId info the next. They teach us II uoeo
NOT make any difference how you NV ivy
Lora or 90 out of this world, you VIII Iau''
either in an oblivious nowhere OF 20, Ia
rions somewhere. And lnhdellty noiu' I
the upper end of the rope Tor tne SuiVru, a'on
and aims the pistol with whlch man la
Llows his brains ont and mixes lno
strvcbnine for the last swallow II mn
daIitv could carry the day and perSuauo
the majority of people in this country
that it does not make any dlnerenG0 INV
Won 90 out of the world you Will l"nu
safely, the Hudson and the East rivers
wonId he so full of corpses the lerr!-
boats would be impeded in their progress,
ond tbe crack OF a suicides pistol NWou'o
he no more alarming than the rumplo VI
street car. !. 5,-o,,osed
7 have sometimes heard 1t discuSseu
whether the great dramatlSt was CnIio-
tian or not. l do not know, DuV heo"
that he considered appreciation OF luI-
nre existence the mightiest hlndrance 10
self destruction.
For who could bear the whips and seornS Vi
time, , o,,,
tumely. ~
The nonos of dispis'd love. the laws delay
The insolence Of office, and the spurHs
That natient merit of the unworthy takes,
when he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would iaruelS De"I'
To grunt and sweat under weary he
Rut that the dread of something after death
The undiscovered country, from whose bourne
No traveller returns-puzzles the Will!
Would to God that the coroners would
be brave in rendering the right verdict
and while in a case of irresp0nslDllliy
they say; "While this man was dementeu
he took his life" in the other case say:
"Having read infdel books and attended
infidel lectures, which obliterated from
this mans mind all appreciation OF any
thing like future retributiOn, he commit
ted self-slaughter."
All! infd elity, stand up and take tiny
sentence! In the presence OF God ana
angels and men, stand up, thou monster,
they lip blasted with blasphemy, thy
cheek Scared with lust thy breath foul
with the corruption of agesl Stand up
Satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the nations,
leper of the centuries Stand up, thou
monster infdelity! Part man, part
panther part reptile, part dragon, stand
ND and take thy sentence. Thy hands
red with the blood in which thou hast
washed, thy feet crimson with the 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 thou hast
sharpened for others, and let thy music
be the everlasting miserere Of those
whom thou hast damned! | brand the
forehead Of infdelity with all the crimes
of self -immolation for the last century
on the part of those who had their treason.
My friends, if ever your life through its
abrasions and its mOlestatiOns should
seem to be unbearable, and you are
tempted to quit it by your own behest, do
not consider yourself as worse than
others. Christ Himself was tempted to
cast Himself from the roof Of the temple,
but as He resisted, 50 resist ye. Christ
came TO medicine all our wounds. In
your trouble 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
much precision as He keeps the chronolo-
gy of nations, your death as we'll as your
cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, just at
midnight, the destroying angel struck
the blow that set the I5raeites free from
bondage? The four hundred and thirty
years were up at twelve O'Clock that
night. The four hundred and thirty years
were not up at eleven, and one O'Clock
would have been tardy and too late. The
four hundred and thirty years were up at
twelve 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 up from earthly bond =
age. 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 everlasting rewards will accord with
your earthly perturbations, just as Caius
gave to Agrippa chain Of gold as heavy
as had been a chain of iron. For the ask
ing-and do not know to whom l 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 in the darkest of dungeons,
dated his letter from 'the delectable
orchard of the Leonine prison"
And remember that this brief life Of
ours is surrounded by rim, very thin
but very important rim and close to that
rim is a great eternity, and you had bet.
ter keep out of it until Goo 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 a
swarm Of summer insects leap not into a
jungle of Bengal tigers.
There is a sorrOwless world, and it is 50
radiant that the MONDAY sun is only the
lowest doorstep, and the aurora that
lights up our northern heavens,
| confounding astronomers as to whai
it can be, is the waving of the b..
ners of the lSOcession come to TAX
the cOnquerors home from church mill.
tant to church triumphant, and Won and I