Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-08-18


and you will land either in annihila-
tioh, where there arc no nodes to pay,
no prosecutions 10 suffer, DO govt tr
torment OF you will land whore thene
will be everything glorious ard nothing
to pay for It. Infdelity always has been
apolosotio for self !mmolaticn- After
Tom Paine's Age of Reason" was pub
lished and widely read there was a
marked increase OF self slaughtes.
Rousseau, volteira Gibbon. Mon
taigpa under certain circumstance,
were apologet,o for self immolation
lnfdelity puts up no boz TO peoples rnsh-
ing out from this world into the next
They teach us IT DOCS pot make any
difference bow you live hare or go out
OF this world, you Will lond either IN al
oblivioeia nowhere or glorious some
where. And tnfdelity holds the uppa
end Of the rope for the suicldA end aims
Tho pistol With which man blows bic
brains out and mixes the strychnfne fcr
the last swallow If infdelity could
carry the day end persuade che major.
ity Of people thai it docs not make any
difference how you go out Of the world
you will land saFolg, the rivers would
be 90 full of corpsos the ferryboats
would be impe<led il their progress, and
the crack Of suicides pistol wou}d Be
no none charming than the rumble OF q
street cur
rhr,se WIS gr-,roy,tS-a
All, in4idelity, stand up and take thy
sentenced IN tile presence Of God and
angels ard men stend up thou mon
eter, thy lip blasted with blasphemy,
thy cheek SCARED with lost, thy breath
fonl With the corruption OF the ages
Stand up, sotyr, filthy goat buzzard OF
the nations lepor OF the centpriesI
Stand up, thou monster infidelity. part
man, part panther. part reptile, part
dragon, stand up and take thy sentences
Thy hand Is rcd with the blood IN
which thou hast weshed, thy feet Grim
son with the human sore through which
thou hast waded. Stand up and take thy
sontencel Down With thee 10 tho pit and
sup on tho sobs and g1oans Of families
thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed Of
knives which thou hast sharpened fol-
others, and lee thy music be the evcrlast-
ting misreTe M those whom thou he6t
damned brand the forehead OF inhdol-
10y with all the crimes Of self immole-
ton for the lest century on the part Of
these who had their reason
My friends, If ever your life through
It's abrasions and its molestations should
seem 10 be unbearable and You ore
tempted to quit 1t by your own behest
do not consider yourselves Us worse than
others Christ himself wss tempted to
cast himself from the rof OF the tom.
pie, but as BIO resisted 30 resist va
Christ came to medicine al our wounds
IL your trouble prescribe life inste,.d
of death. People who have had iC worse
than you will ever have it have gone
songful on their way. Remember that
God keeps the chronology Cd yo,r life
with as much precision s he keeps The
chronology OF nations
a Chrktiaus LILO and Death
Why was 10 that at midnight just al
midnight, the destroying angel struch
the blow that set the Israelites free
from bondage? The $50 years were up
/. at 10 O'Clock thai night The 490 years
were not upat Ii. and / O'CLOCK woub
have been tardy and too labe The @G0
years Were up at lg O'Clock. and the de-
stroying angel struck the blow. and
Israel wes free And God knows tust
the hour when it is time to lead you ny
from earthly bondage By his grace
make not The worst Of things, but the
best Of them. If you must take the pills,
90 Dos chew them. Your everlasting re-
wards will acoosd With your earthly
pcrturbattons. just us Calus gave r
Agrippa o chain Of gold as beayy ae
bad been his chain OF Iron. Fog your
asking you mey hove the game grace
that ives given TO the Italian martyr,
Alserius who down IN The darkest d
dungeons dated his letter from "the
delectable orchard OF the Leonine pris-
on "
There is sorrowless world, end 1t is
so radiant that the MONDAY sun is only
the lowest doorstep, and the aurora that
lights up our northern heavens. con
founding astronomers IS to what tt can
be, lie the waving of the banners OF the
procession come 10 take the oonquerors
home from church militant to church
triumphma and you and l have 10, o00
reasons for wanting to go there, bat
we will never get there eithes by sell
immolation or impen!tency. All our
sins slain by the Christ who came 60 dc
that ching, we want ID go in at just the
tine divineIy sErensed and f7om g
couch divinely spread, eald chen the
clang OF the sepulohgel gates behind rs
will be overpowvrod ny the oiaog Cd the
opening Of tbo SOLID pearl before us
0 God, whatever others may Chooee,
give mo Christians life, Christian g
death, a CHRISTIANS burial. Chris
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