The morning news., 1894-08-13

[ The insolence Of once. and the spurns
/ That patient merit Of the unworthy takes,
/ When he himself might his quletus make
/ With bare bodkln: Who would fardels
bear,
/ To grunt and sweat under weary life.
7 But that the dread Of something after death
. The undiscovered country. from whose bourne
/ No traveller returns puzzles the will
Would God that the coroners would be
. brave in rendering the right verdict, and
when in the case of possibility they
T say, while this man was demeuted he
took his life" in the other case say, ''Hav-
| ing read infdel books and attended intidel
/ lectures. which obliterated from this
mans mind all appreciation of anything
/ like future retribution, he committed self
/ slaughter"
/ All! Infdelity, stand up and take any
| sentence! In the presence of God and
/ angels and men, stand up, thou monster,
thy lip 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 centu-
ries Stand up. thou monster In
| fidelity, Part man, part panther, part
reptile, part dragon, stand up and take
thy SENTENCED Thy hands red with the
blood in which thou hast washed, thy
feet crimson with the human gore
through which thou has waded, stand up
and take thy sentence! Down with thee
| to the pit and sup on the sobs and groaus
of families thou hast blasted, and roll on
the bed of knives which thou has sharp
ened for others, and let thy music be the
everlasting miserere of those whom thou
hast damned l brand the forehead Of
Intdeity with all the crimes of self-im-
notation for the last century on the part
of those who had their reason.
My friends, if ever your life through its
abrasions and its molestations should
seem TO be unbearable, and you are
tempted to quit it by your own behest, do
not consider yourselves as worse than
Others Christ himself was tempted to
cast himself from the roof of the temple;
but as he resisted, so resist We. Christ
came to medicine all our wounds In your
trouble prescribe life instead of death.
People who have had it worse than you
will ever have it have gone songful on
their way. Remember that God keeps the
chronology of your life with as much pre-
cision as he keeps the chronology of ma
tIons, your death as well as your birth,
your grave as well as your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, just at
midnight, the destroying angel struck the
blow that set the Israelites free from
bondage3 The 430 years were up at 12
O'Clock that night. The 430 years were
not up at II, and l o'clock would have
been tardy and too late. The 430 years
were up at II o'clock, and the destroying
angel struck the blow and Israel was free.
And God knows just the hour when it is
time to lead you up from earthly bondage.
By his grace make not the worst of
things, but the best of them. If
you must take the pills do not chew
them. Your everlasting rewards will
accord with your earthly perturbations,
just as Caius gave to Agrippa a chain of
gold as heavy as had been his chain of
iron. For your asking you may have the
same grace that was given to the Italian
martyr, Algerius, who, down in the dark
est of dungeons. dated his letter from
the delectable orchard of the Leonine
prison"
And remember that this brief life of
ours is surrounded by rim, very thin
but very important rim, and close up to
that rim IS a great eternity and you had
better keep out of it until God breaks
that rim and separates this from that. To
get rid of the sorrows of earth, do not
rush into greater sorrows. To get rid of
swarm of summer insects, leap not into
a jungle of Bengal tigers.
There is a sOrro wless world, and it is so
radiant that the MONDAY sun is only the
lowest doorstep and the aurora that lights
up our northern heavens, confounding as
tronomers as to what it can be- is the
waving of the banners of the procession
come to take the cOnquerors home from
church militant to church triumphant,
and you and have ten thousand reasons
for wanting to go there, but we will never
get there either by self-immolation or
impenitency All our sins slain by the
Christ who came to do that thing, we
want to go in at just the time divinely ar
ranged, and from a couch divinely spread,
and then the clang of the sepulchral
gates behind US will be overpowered by
the clang of the opening of the solid pearl
before us. o God, whatever others may
choose, give me Christians life, Chris
tian's death, Christians burial, Chris
tian's immortality!