The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-11-09

and the illustrious deaths OF its dis
ciples, it is fact alarmingly patent
that suicide is on the increase. What
is the cause? charge upon infidelity
and agnosticism this whole thing. II
1 there be no hereafter, or if that here
after 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 ex-
istence here becomes troublesome, why
not pass right over into Elysium? Put
this down among your most solemn re-
Elections, land consider it after you go
to your homes: there has never been a
case of suicide where the operator was
not either demented, and therefore ir-
responsible, or an infidel. | challenge
all the ages, and challenge the whole
universe. There never has been case
of self-destruction while in full appre-
citation of his Immortality and of the
fact that that Immortality would be
glorious or wretched according as he
accepted Jesus Christ or rejected 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
thug. Why not go clear back, my
friend, and acknowledge that in every
case it is the abdication of reason or
the teaching of infidelity which prac-
tically says: IF you don't like this
life, get out of it, and you will land
either in humiliation, where there are
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suffer, no govt to torment, or you will
land where there will be everything
glorious and nothing to pay for it. In
fidelity always has been apologetis for
self-immolation. After Tom Pa,ne's
cage of Reason" was published and
widely read there was marked in
crease of self-slaughter.
A man in London heard Mr.. Owen
delivered his infidel lecture on social
ism, and went home and sat down and
wrote these words: ''Jesus Christ is
one of the weakest characters in his
tory, and the Bible is the greatest pos
sible deception" and then shot HIM
self. David Hume wrote these words:
ut would be no crime for me to divert
the Nile or the Danube from its
natural bed. Where, then, can be the
crime in my diverting few drops of
blood from their ordinary channel?"
And having written the essay he
loaned it to friend; the friend read it,
wrote a letter of thanks and admira-
ton, and then shot himself. Appendix
to the same book.
Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Mon
taigne, under certain circumstances,
where apologize for self-immolation.
Infidelity puts up no bar to peoples
rushing out from this world into the
next. They teach us it does not make
any difference how you live here or go
out of this world, you willSland either
in an oblivious nowhere or, glorious
somewhere. And infdelity holds
the upper end of the rope for
the suicide, and aims the pistol
with which man blows his brains
out, and mixes the strychnine for the
last swallow. If infidelity could carry
the day and persuade the majority Of
people that it does not make any differ
ence how you go out of the world you
will land safely, the rivers would be SO
full of corpses the ferryboats would be
impeded in their progress, and the
crack of suicides pistol would be ne
more alarming than the rumble of
street car
Ali Infidelity, stand up and take thy
sentence! In the presence of God and
angels and men, stand up, thou mon
ster, thy lips blasted with blasphemy,
thy cheek SCARED with lust, thy breath
foul with the corruption of the ages.
Stand up, Satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of
the nations, leper of the centuriesi
Stand up, thou monster Infidelityl
Part man, part panther, part reptile.
part dragon, stand up 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 al
families thou hast blasted, and roll Oh
the bed of knives which thou hast
sharpened for others, and let thy music
be the everlasting miserere of those
whom thou hast damned! brand the
forehead of Infidelity with all the
crimes of self-immolation for the last
century on the part of those who had
their reason.
There is sorrowless world, and it il |
SO radiant that the MONDAY sun is only |
the lowest doorstep, and the aurora
that light up our northern heavens,
confounding astronomers as to what II |
can be, is the waving of the
banners of the procession come to
take the conquerors home from church |
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