Telegram-herald., 1888-10-15

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murder
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this crisae. Hoial yea - the roxaee'
Yies4re q s-y IA soIne pzrts ot the
B.ose. sbs psegares q the peos4s ~h9 hsss
committed this nunatarl crime. Hafs .
ths asa.ds~ss trunk of saul ca the walls q
Bathshzn Here h the m4n - 2o casset ltils
uavid-ten fect IA st4tare ehssios fogr.
Here L tie uan y no Consulted q cl4INoy-
n
whiuued 10 b4ttls, instead II surrendesipg
his ssord ~sth dignity, a. many man has
done al. hls seF, ant u sl2y hSm. and ~non
the servant dscAne.. then Tie .a4ag plants
the halt Il tho sword la the eafth. tAs sharp
ppint sticking upward, and hs throws his
bbiy Oh u and erplrss, toe coward. the sui
clde Here IS AhithopAel the Maeh.sys.A
ot oldsn times. bstrsylng Als b.st friend
a.. r,-sfar that ~ t...as... s...ft,.
minister of Absalon, and joining that feb
low in has attempt At parricide Hos gettag
what he wanted by change OF politics, hs
takes short cut out OF disyraced bfs
into the suicides eternity. There he Is, the
migrate,
here Is Abimelech, prscticaliy suicids
He Is With army, bombarNhng a tower,
when a woman in the tower takes grind
stone from iss place aud drops q upon bis
head, and with what HE ne has left 40 his
/ cracked skull he commands his srnoT bearer.
Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say
a women Slew me" There Is ms post mortsm
| photograph IA the book Of samuel Bat the
/ hero OF this group is Judas lsczriot. Dr..
| DOnne says be was a martyr, and No have an
our day apologists for him. And what won
/ der, In tins day when we have 3 book reveal
| ing Aaron Burr "a pattern Of virtue. and In
this day when We uncover a statue 20 George
1 Sand as the beusfactress of literature aad in
/ this day when there are bctrayals OF Christ
on the part OF some OF has pretended apostles
"a betrayal 50 black il makes tho lafsIny OF
Judas lscariot white Yet this man by his
own hand hung up for tho execrstl0n OF all
the ages. Judas Isc2riot.
All the good men and women Of the Bible
left 20 God tho decision OF their eartkly ter
minus, and they could have said with JOB,
who had right 20 commit suicide II any man
ever had-what with his DESTROYED pr0pe. ty,
and his body ali ahame with insugerabe car
buncles, and everything gone from h.s home
except the chief curse Of IL, a pes,iterous wife,
and four garrulous people Ieltlng hlm with
| comfortieS talk while bo siLs ca a heap Of
ashes scratching his scabs with a piece Of
broken pottery, yet crying out IN triumph:
'All the days Of my appointed time viii /
wait tail my change come
Notwithstanding the Bible is against this
| evil and the aversion which IL creates by tho
loathsome and ghastly spectacle OF those who
have hurled themselves out Of life, and not
withstanding Christianity Is against it, and
| the arguments and the useful lives and the
illustrious deaths Of its disciples. 1t is a TACT
alarmingly patent that saicido Is on the IN
| GREASE.
What is the causet | charge upon infdel-
| ity and agnostlcism this whole thing. IL
there be no hereafter, or il that hereafter be
bliszful without reference to how we live and
how We die, why not move back the folding
doors between this world and the bexti And
when our existence here becomes trouble
some, why not pass right over into Elysiunl
Put this down among your most solemn re-
Elections, and consider IL after you 60 10 your
homes: there has never been a case cf suicide
where the operator was not either demented,
and therefore irresponsible, or an in1del.
challenge all the ages, and / challenge the
whole universe. There never has been a case
OF self destruction while in fun appreciation
of his immortality and OK the fact that that
Immortality would be glorious Or wretcbed
according as he accepted Jesus Christ or re-
Jected him.
You say il is a business trouble. or you say
1t is electrical currents, or IL - this, or IL Is
that, Or II is the other thing. Why not 80
clear back, my friend, aud acknowledge that
IN every case 10 is the heabdication OF reason or
the teaching Of inh9elty which practically
says: If you don't like this liie Get out OF
II, aud you will land either in annihilation,
where there arc no notes 70 pay. no Iersecu-
tions TO suffer, no goqt 70 torment, or you viii
land where there viii be everything glorious
and nothing topay for IL" Inhcellty always
has been apologetic for self iuosno.stion After
Tom Paine's Age OF Reason was published
and widely rcaA there was marked increase
OF self slaughter.
man in London hoard Mr.. Owen deliver
his inhdei lecture on socialism and went
home, sat down end wrote these words. 'Je
sus Christ is ono Of the weakcst characters ~
history, and tho Bible u the grea.est possible
deoeptaon,' and then shot hizSseh David
Hume wrote these words. 1t would be no
crime for me T. divert toe Nile or tlie Dan
ubo from it, natural bed. where, thsn, car
be ths cTime IN my divertiag few drops q
blood from their ord nary cbanaeif' And
having written tho esesY ns loaned it to q
friend. the friend read IL. wrote a lettsr 81
thanks and admiration. AID saot himself
Appendix % the same book
Ro,uzsaau. Voltasre. Olbhoa. Mcntaign.
undsr c-rtsin circumstances. we're aroloT>sis
for self imDolation. InAdelty puts up "a
bar u peoples rushing out from this world
into the uext 1bcy teach us a does not nass
arr difference how you live bsrs OF 80 ou'
of thls world. you HAl lsod either "a
an oblivious nowhere or glorious sorne
where And inhJeiity holds tie upper end
% thc rope for too suicide anS airs -.
pistol With which m@n blows his brains
cut, ard uixcs tho strTchrins Tor The iss'
swallow n iu6deiitv corld carry The ds'
TINS couu.rv -ns, y dos not make any 80
ference how To1 20 out q Re weFla, 70
viI land ssfeiy. the HBd@on snd tle f@s
rivers would be - fuli n corr~>s TIE fsrrT
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