Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-08-30

=. - N'e various nlndrdnceS we
ee', There is fountain filed with
olood. William Cowper. who shares
J, i'n isaac Watts and Charles Wesley
'ne ehlef honors of Christian hvmnoi-
ogy' Ia hypoehondria he resolved Ia
oaAe ms own life, and rode to the river
ihames' but found man seated on
some goods. at the very point from
"iich ne expected to spring, and rode
pack To his home, and that night threw
himself upon his own knife. but the
oiade broke, and then he hanged him.
sell to the ceiling, but the rope parted.
no wonder that when God mercifully
delivered him from that awful dementia
ne sat down and wrote that other HYMN
Just as memorable:
Coz moves in mysterious way
His wonders TO perform;
he plants His footsteps in the sea.
Ana rides upon the storm.
Blind unbelief is sure to err
ANA sean His work in vain:
9od Is His own Interpreter
And He will make it plain
While we make this merciful and
righteous allowance in regard to those
VINO We're plunged into mental inco-
herence, declare that the man who in
the use Of his reason. by his own act
snaps the bond between his body and
his soul, goes straight into perdition.
Shall | prove it? Revelation xxi. g.:
'Murderers shall have their part in the
lake which burneth with fire and brim-
stone" Revelation xii, Is: "Without
our dogs, and sorcerers. and whore
mongers and murderers." You do not
believe the New TESTAMENT Then,
perhaps, you believe the Ten Command
ments Thou shalt not kill" ID, you
say all these passages refer to the tak-
ing OF the life of others? Then | ask
you if you are not as responsible for
your own life as for the life of others?
God gave you special trust in your
life. He made you the custodian of
your life as He made you the custodian
of no other life. He gave you as weap-
ons with which to defend it two arms
to strike back assailauts, two eyes to
watch for invasion, and natural love
of life which ought ever TO be on the
alert. Assassination of others is a
mild crime compared with the assas-
sination Of yourself, because in the
latter case it is treachery to especial
trust, it is the surrender of a castle you
were especially appointed to keep, il
is treason TO a natural law, and it is
treason to God added to ordinary muir
der
To show how God in the Bible looked
upon this crime, | point You to the
rogues picture gallery in some parts of
the Bible, the pictures of the people
who have committed this unnatural
crime. Here is the headless trunk Of
Saul on the walls Of Bathshan. Here
is the man who chased little David
ten feet in stature chasing four. Here
is the man who consulted clairvoyaut,
Witch of Endor Here is man who,
whipped in battle, instead of surrender
inc his sword with dignity, as manv
man has done, asks his servant TO slay
him: and when the servant declines,
then the giant plants the hilt Of the
sword in the earth, the sharp point
sticking upward, and he throws his
body on it and expires, the coward, the
suicide. Here is Ahithophel, the
MachiavelIi Of olden times. betraying
his best friend David in order that he
NAV become prime minister of Absalom'
and joining that fellow in his attempt
Al narricide. Not getting what he
wanted by change of politics. he takes
a short cut out of disgraced life into
the suicides eternity. There he Is the
migrate.
Here is Abimelech. practically sur
eide He is with an army, bombardlng
, tower when a woman in the tower
takes grindstone from its place ana
drons II upon his head, and with what
l;fa he has left in a cracked skull,
- commands his armor-bearer, Draw
tbv sword and slay me lest men say
a ryomau slew me-" There is his post
,ortem photograph in the book OF
But the hero of this group is
Iuaas Iscariot. DIR. Donne says he was |
: ,,artvr. and we have in our day apoi-
.os;s,s for him. And what wonder. In
this day when we have book revealing
Aaron Burr as pattern OF virtue ana
=, This day when we uncover a statue
George sand as the benefaetress OF lit
~ ~ u tnrs and in this day when there are
,,a.rarals of Christ on the part OF some
- - nj MS pretended apostles-betrayal so
MACK Il makes the infamy OF JUDAS
1iaor;ot white Yet this man by his
nSv hand hung up for the execration
~ ~ ali the ages, Judas Iseariot,
All the good men and women ,a, tne
n. a. Iaft 10 God the decision OF their
duh nrtSly terminus. and they could have
ear is sr l.;+b lob. who had right to COM
sara s wIa If any man ever had-what
M i;th his destroyed property ana ms
= l Isn al ,fame with insufferable car
D '''nsles and everything gone from ms
u,,,e except the chief curse OF IT. a pes
. g. wife and four garruloun PeoP,e
me- IT, him with eomfortless talk whiie
pei W. on a heap Of ashes scratching ms
&C sl'' With a piece Of broken pottery
'eaOs ., ING out in triumph .All the
,e1 II INV appointed time VIII l "1i'
LAY LAY =, change comes.