The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1894-09-08

| tCr Invasion AM L NaturIl love OF life Whir1
| ou"ht eT-r 10 bo on th" a:"rt. Ass !SS'naNon
-! others is i mild crime compared with the
| assassination OF vours"lf because in tha
latter ease it is trr1chery TO an especial
trust il is the surrender OF castle you We're
especially appointed 10 keep. Il is treason TO
natural law AMI it is treason 10 God added
10 ordinary MUrvrr.
70 show how Col in the Bihla looked
on this rr;n- ro;nt You TO tne 70 5u"s'
n'r,ur,, ..::'ary IN souo parts o. tAe biH',
20 rlrtIrnS o. tho D'oo!a WAo nave coH-
mitt"l this UnnT:ural crime. Hero IS 1Ae
h.aAiess tran: OF SUI! Of the walls OF Elth-
s,an. Hire is tho man VINO chased lltl!e
y ivi,l-ten feet IN et1;ur c,!Hsing Our. Here
is the MN wEo consulted c!airVoyan1,
witch OF En Tor Here is 4 man who,
whipped in battle. instead Of surranterlns
his sword with dignity, asks his servant to
sray him, and when the servant declines then
the giant plants the hit OF the sword in the
earth. the sharp point sticking upward, and
he throws his boiy on it and expires, the
coward. the suicide! H-re is Ahithophel,
the Machiavalli Of olden times, betraying his
best friend David. in order that he may be-
coma prime minister OF Absalon and joining
that fellow in his attempt at particle. Not
cs,tiac. what he wantet by change OF politics
he takes short cut out OF discraced life
in;o the suicides eternity. There he ls, the
in-ratei
Here is Abimelech practically suicide.
| He is with an army DonbardlnS tower,
| when a woman in the tower takes grind
! Stone from its place AMI drops 1t upon his
mead, and with what life he has let IN
| crrcEe! skull he comman ,shis armor bearer,
| Draw thy sword and slay me. lest men say
woman slew me-" There IS his post mortem
i pho,ocraph in the book OF Samuel. But the
! is ISnarOt
Donne saws he WAS 4 martyr, and we haVeln
/ our day apoloSists for him. And what won
der in this Gay when we have book reveal
iny Aaron Burr as pattern OF virtue, anu
ir this day when We uncover statue 10
! Georya Sand as the benefactress OF htera-
! ,ur.. and in this day when there are pc
travas OF Christ on the part OF some OF HIS
! pretended apostes--a betrayal SO olack II
! makes the intamy Of Judas tscarlot whlte!
! Yet this man by MS own hand hung up 1or
tn. e1ecration OF all the ages, Judas lscaflot.
i All 1he good nan and women OF the Bible
! let 10 God the decision Of their eartnly ter-
: m nus. IN they could have said WITH 1ona
who had right to commit suicide II any
man ever ha!-what with his destroyed
property, and his body all aaame with lnsur-
ferable rarounces, and everything gone
! from his home except the chief curse OF It
I p"stiferous wife-and four garrulous peo'
, pie peltins MIN with comfortless talk while
be SITS on a heap Of ashes scratching his
scaas with piece of broken pottery, yet
/ CRYING out in triumph, GAIL the days OF my
appointed time will I wait till my change
s come"
Notwithstanding the Bible is against this
evil and the aversion which il creates by the
lolthsome and ghasty spectacle. OF those
WAC have hurried themselves out
Of life, and Notwithstanding Christ
=, n.
nents and the useful lives andthe illustrious
deaths Of its discpl g, it is a fact alarming
y patent that su eide is on the increase.
WHAT is the cause? + charge upon inhdellty
AMI aSnos.Iclsn this wAo.e thing. II thefe
D. no ,erea.ier. or II mat hereafter be bliss
/ tul withour reference 10 how Te live and how
| Va lie, way not move back the folding doors
! between this world AMI the nextI And when
= our existence mere becomes troublesome why
| not pass right over into Eiysiun? Put this
| down among your most solemn reflections
and consrr II after you 80 to your homes
, there has nrv-r been q case of suicide
! wnere the operator was not either denented,
an therefore Irresponsible, or an lnfdel. l
challenge all the ages, AMI I challenge the
wno 9 universe. There never has been a
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 Hin.
You say it is business trouble, or you say
L is electrical currents or 1t is this, or it is
that, or j, is the other thing. Why not go
clear back. my friend, and acknowledge thst
in every case it is the apdicaton ofreason or
the teaching o. lntideIity which practically
says, ''If YOU don't like this life, get out OF
ii. and you viii land either IN annihilatlon,
wnere lnere are no notes 10 pay, 10 persecU-
RI N..nf nr
Will land where there will be everything
glorious and nothincto pay tor it, Intdeii-
! " always mas Ueen apoIogetic for selt {mmo-
lation After Iom PlInes Age OF Reason"
Was published and widely Rad there was {.
marked increase OF sef-sIauSnter.
Rousseau, Eotaire, Giobon, Montaigne,
unaer certain circumstances, were apollo
getic for self iInmoIatlon. 1niidelity puts up
10 bar 10 peoples rushing out from this
world into the next. They teach US it does
not make any difference now you live here
or go out Of this world, you will land either
in an oolivious nowhere or I. glorious some
waere, And lntldelity holds the upper old
OF the rope for the suicide, and aims the
pistol with wnicn man blows his brains
out. and mixes the strychnine ior the last
swallow. II ind1elity could carry the day
ant PERSUADE the majority OF people that It
does not made any difference how you &C
out OF the world you will land safely. the
rivers would De so full OF corpses the terry
; boats would be impeded IN cheir progress,
! and the crack 0, q suicides pistol would be
no more alarming tnan the rumole OF street
car.
; An, infidelty. stand up and take thy sem
! tence In the presence Of Goi and angels
] ana men, stant up. taou monster, thy lip
! blasted with olaspnemy, thy cheek scarred
! VITA lust, thy breath toul with the corrup-
ton of the ages Stand up, satyr, filthy
goat, DuzzarG OF the nations, leper OF the
centuries Stand up, thou monster infdel-
liv, part man, part panther, part reptile, part
CraSou. stauU up and take thy sentence!
Thy hand is red with the blood in which
tnou hast washed, thy feet cr.mson with the
human gore through watch thou mast waded.
Sand up and take thy sentence! Down with
tIce 10 the pit and sup on the soos and
groaus OF families thou hast blasted, and -c!l
on the ued OF knives which tnou hast sharp
eneI Tor others, and let thy music be the
everlasting mIscrers OF those wnon thou
hast damned l brand the forehead Of ini-
deity with all the crimes OF self immoiatou
Tor tne last century on the part OF those who
! had their reason.
My irien IS, Il ever Your life through its
q I,le.o a~-' lis Toe5tatlon5 should seem
10 oe unDearan:a, ana YOU are tempted ta
Quit il by your own behest, do not consider
yvurs"vts as worse than others. Christ
Il himself was tempted TO cast Himself from
the roo OF the temple, hut as He resisted so
r--ist Va. CIR st cane to medicine all our
wounus. IL your trouble prescribe life in
s.e9i or death. People who have had It
worse than you will ever have it have gone
song III on their way. Remember that God
krcn9 the chronology OF your life with as
,rurh precision rs He keeps the chronology
nations.
Nnv Was If at rn;.lni-ht ;1st IF -midnict2tt