Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-09-01

.or Invasion AMI a natural love OF iiie Wnacn
ought, ever 10 be on the alert. Assassination
~ others IL a mild crime compared Hfa tha
assassination o; YOURSELF becanss@ In the
latter case i, il treachery 10 auaespaei.l
trust, +, is thu surrender o. a castl-sssth were
especially appointed TO keep. l. il treason to
4 natural law. and i; is treason TO Col added
10 ordinary murder.
To show how God In the Bible looked
upon this crime l point you 70 the roSues
.,fc,ure gallery in some parts o: the Bible.
the picture, o. the people who have con-
nisted this unnatural crime. Here IL tie
headless trunk OF Saul On the walls OF Bate-
shan. Here is the nan WHO chased little
David-ten feet in statue chasing 'our. Hrra
is the man who consulted a rlairNo"an'.
witch OF FnioY. Here ia n man who.
whirrrt N hattie, instead o. sur-en3eria-
his sxori with dignity. asks his servant 20
stay him. and when the servant declines 'hen
The ciar: plants the hit FIN" sword in the
Earth. the shrrpT ONT sticking upwari, an
he throws his to4v IN It ana expires. the
cowari. the suicide. Here is Ahittoph@'.
tho Manhiaeeii o. o,den tines. he rayin, hie
best iri-nd. DAVID. IN orier that he NAV hf-
come prime minister 0. AbsaloI and joining
that fellow in h. attempt At particle. Not
getting what b. wantAtby chang Of politics
he takes a short cut on. o 7 discrscei lie
into TIE suicides eternity. There hr Is, the
migrate
Here ia Ahiueleci practically a suicide.
He is With m army bon0arilnC Il tower,
when n woman in the tower taxes n grind
| stone fron its place an drops ii upo his
head. AMI with what life he has lee; in =
rracsei skull he connan s his arnor bearer,
Draw thy sworl and slay TIE. lest men say
Il woman slew me" There is his post norton
photograph in the book 81 Samuel. But the
hero OF this group Is Judas Iscario'. Dr..
Dome says he Was a martyr, AMI We haven
al day arol0vIGfS for him. And what Won
der in this day when Wa have a book reveal
ing Aaron Burr as Il pattern o. virtue. an |
in this day when VIZ uncover a statue to
George SAND as the bena'actr:ss Of litera-
turp. AMI in this day when -thers ara t'e-
iravals Of Car.st on the part o. some OF His
pretended aposties-a betrayal so black it
makes the intaIay OF judas Iscar1ot white
Yet this man by his own hant hung up for
the execration OF all the aGes Judas lscariot.
All the good men and women o. the Bible
left to Goa the decision OF their earthly ter
minus, ana they could have said With job,
who had \ right to commit suicide if any
man ever hat-what with his destroyed
property. and his boiy all aflane with insult
ferable rarhuneies. and everything gone
from his home tx .ept the chief curse o. it
\ p-stlferous wife n | four ,carrulous peo.
pie peitinC MIN With ronfOrtiesS talk Whtle
he sits on n heap Of ashes scratching his
s-afs with a pie.e OF broken pottery. yet
CRYING out in triumph. :All the days 81 my
appointed time Will I wait till my change
come"
Notwithstanding the Bible is against this
evil AMI the aversion which it creates by tho
lo,thsome AMI ghastly spectacle OF thoss
who have hurried themselves out
Of life. AMI Notwithstanding Christ
innity IL against It and tho argn-
ment. and the useful lives andthe illustr!ous
deaths OF its di-cipl ., IT Is n fact alarming
~ patent that su .ilo Is on tho increase.
ny, -. 1At. 4.
and asnostlclsn this wAo.e thin. IL there
be no hereafter. or if that hereafter be Bliss
iul without ref renee TO how We live and now
we die, wnv not move back 10 folding door.
between this world ami tho next! Aud Wnen
our existence here becomes troubles me WY
not pass right over into Elysiun? Put this
down among your most solemn ref -ctlonq
and consider II after you 80 to your homes
there has never been a"case or suicide
where the operator was not either demenred,
AMI therefore Irresponsible, or an intidet. ]
challenge all the ages. AMI l challenge the
who's universe. There never has been .
case OF self destruction while in full appre-
citation OF his Immortality and OF tho fact
that that immortality would be glorious o,
wretched according as he accepted Jesu
Christ or rejected Hin.
You say it is business trouble, or you sa,
it is electrical currents, or it is this, or 1t i
that. or it is the other thing. Why not &
III DtCk IL lIltuI, ftllu u kIb
in every case 1t is the abdication ofreason 0
the teaching Of inldelity which PRACTICAL,
says, "If you don't like this life. get out 0
II, and you Will land either in humiliation
where there are no notes TO pay, no persecu
tons to suffer, no govt TO torment, or yo
viii land where there will to everythin,
glorious and nothing to pay for it, Infdel
~ always has been apologetic for self immc
lation. After Tom Paine's Gage Of Reason
was published and widely read there was
marked increase OF self-siauchter.
Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne
under certain circumstances. were apoio
g.tic for self immolation. Inf1delity puts IL
no bar to peoples rushing out from til
world into the next. They teach US it doe
no, make any difference how you live her
or go out OF this world. you will land eithe
IN al oblivious nowhere or Il glorious some
where. And lntidelity holds the upper en-
OF the rope for the suicide. and aims tn
pistol with which a man blows his brain
out. and mixes the strychnine for the las
swallow. Ii infdelity could carry the da
and persuade the majority Of people that
does not made any difference how YOU 6
out Of the world you will land safely. tn
rivers would bc so full OF corpses tho terri,
boats would be impeded in their progress:
and the crack OF a suicides. pistol would b
no more alarming than the rumble Of Il stree
car.
An. infdelity, stand up and take thy ser
+ fence. III Tue presence Oh bo1 ana anSe
: and men, stand up, thou monster, thy Ii
/ blasted with olasphemy. thy cheek SCARF
, with lust. :hy breath foul with the CORFU,
= ,ion of the ages. Stand up, satyr. filth
goat, tuzzard OF the nations. ieper OF tn
il centuries. Stand up. thou monster infde
! 1ty. part man. part panther. part reptile. pai
!; dragon. stand up and take thy sentence
!, Thy hand Is red with tho blood IN who
thou hast washed, thy fee, crimson with tn
c auman gore through which thou has, wade,
stand up and take thy sentence Down wi,
thee 10 the pit and sup on tho soos an
n -roans OF families thou hast blasted. II ro
On the bed OF knives which thou hast shar
- cn.t for others. and let thy music bc II
- everlasting mlscrerc OF those whom tho
hast damned | brand the foreneat OF IN
e ,i.!l,y with Ill the crimes OF self immolatic
- COR the las, century on the part Of those W.
in tad their reason.
10 Ny ffien IL, II ever your life through
70 @srasioas aud lis mo.rstlii0Ds should sec
le to be unbearahie. and yeu are tempted
Is quit II by your own behest. do not consid
IL Yourselves as worse than others. Chri
ie Himself was tempted 10 cast Himself FRO