The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-01-04
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virtue, and :. :
literature, alfi in this &
betrayals Of Christ on
His pretended apostles
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the execration of all tt . FL
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terminus, and they couI
Job. who had right t
any man ever had-what
property, his body all afldi
bic earbuncles, and every
his home except the chief q
tiferous wife, and four garrui =
ing him with comfortless tai !.
on heap Of ashes scratching his
piece of broken pottery, yet cry =
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time viii / 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 1t,
and the arguments and the useful lives aud
the illustrious deaths Of its disciples, 1t IS a
fact alarmmgly patent that suicide IS on the
increase.
What is the causel charge upon Inf.
deity and Agnosticism this whole thing. Ii
there be no hereafter, or if that hereafter be
bissful 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 tronb-
lesome, why not pass right over into Elysiumi
Put this down among your most solemn re-
Elections, and consider it aftar you 20 to your
homes; there has never been case Of suicide
where the operator was not either deule-Iit--.-
and therefore irresponsible, or an InhdeL
challenge all the ages. and challenge the
universe There never has been a case of
self-destruction while in full appreciation Of
his immortality and Of the fact that that i'm
mortality would be glorious or wretched ac-
cording as he accepted Jesus Christ or reject
ed Him.
You say it is business trouble, or you say
it is electrical currents, or It Is this, or it
is that, or it IS the other thing. Why not
go clear back, my friend, and acknowledge
that in every case it is the abdica-
tion of reason or the teaching of inf
deity which practically says: "lf you do t
like this life get out of it. and you will
land either in annihiation, where there are
no notes to pay, no pers cuti0scS to suffer, no
gcut to torment, or you will land where
there viii be everything glorious and moth
ing to pay for it lnfidelitv always has
been apologize for self-immolation A
Tom Panes age Of Reason" was publ
and widely read there was marked -
of self-slaughuer -.
a man in London heard Mr.. OV52 ~.
his infidel lecture on Socialism
home, sat down, and wrote
Jesus Christ is one of the weak
in history, and the Bible is the!
sible deception and then
David Hume wrote these wol II =
be no crime fc- me to divert r 81
Danube from its natural bed =
can be the crime in my diveH
of blood from their ordinar =. s II
having written the essay = 4
friend, the friend read it, Il
thanks and admiration, Al i Il
Appendix to the same book.
Rousseau, No,taire, GibbSr ~
under certain circumstances, We
for self-immOlation. JniideIty pH
bar to peoples rushing out from ~ -
into the next They teach Us it doa
make any difference how You live here .rfs5
out Of this world you will lanl either IN
an obliTious nowhere or a glorious some
where. And iniidelity holds the upper end of
the rope for the suicide, and aims the pistol
with which a man blows his brains out,
and mixes the strychnine for the last
swallow. ii infideity could carry the day
and persuade the ma ority Of people in this
country that it does not make any difference
how YOU 90 out OF the world You will land
safely. the Hudson and the East river would
be so full of corpses the ferry boats would be
impeded in their progress, and this crack Of a
suicides pistol would be no more alarming
than the rldnble of street car.
hzse sometimes heard it discussed
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