The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-08-23
and widely read there was marked in
CT rease of self slG,1ohter.

"A hiah Al IOuuOu uChLu NIL O"ou
deliver his iufldel lecture On Socialism"
wrote those words. "Jesus Christ
is one of the weakest characters in
history and tho Bible is the greatest |
possible deception" and thon shot
himself. David Hume wrote these |
"orda: "It would be no crime |
for mo to DIVERT he Nile or the Danube |
from Its natural bed. Where, then, can |
be the crime in my diverting q few |
drops Of blood from their ordinary |
channel ?" And having written the es.
say he loaned 1t to friend to read 1t |
who wrote letter Of thanks and admi- !
ration and then shot himself. Appen- |
dix to the same book.
Rousseau, Voltaire, ,Gibbon, and Mon
were apologetic for self immOlation.
Infidelity puts up no bar to peoples
rushing out from this world into the
next. They teach us 1t does not make
any difference how you live here or 60
out Of this world, you will land either
In an Obllv1Ous nowhere or glorious
somewhere. And infidelity holds the
upper end of the rope for the suicide,
and aims the pistol with which a man
blows his brains out, and mixes the
strychnlne for the last swallow. If in
fidelity could carry the day and per-
suade the majority Of people that 1t
does not make any difference how you
go out Of the world you will land safe
ly the rivers would be impeded In their
progress, and the crack of a suicides
pistol would be no more alarming than
the rumble of a street car.
Ali tnfdlity, stand up and take thy
| sentenced In the presence Of God and
angles and mon, stand up; thou mon
ster. thy lip blasted with blaspemy, thy
cheek SCARED with lust, thy breath foul
with corruption Of the agesl Stand up,
satyr, filthy goat, buzzard Of the Ia.
tions, leper Of the conturies! Stand up,
thou. monster inlidelttyl Part man part
stand up, and take thv sentencel Thy
hands red with the blood In which thou
has washed, thy feet crimson with the
human gore through which thou hast
wadded, stand UP and take thy SEN
tencel Down with thee to the pit and
sup on the sObS and groans Of families
thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed Of
knives which thou hast sharpened for
others, and let thy music be the ever
lasting miseries Of those swhom thou
hast damnedl l brand the forehead of
infidelity with all the crimes ofself i'm
molRtion for the last century on the
part Of those who had their reason.
My friends, IL ever your life thought
its abrasions and It's moiestations
should seem to be unberable, and you
are tempted to quit 1t by your own be-
hest, 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 re.
eist ye. Christ came to medicine all our
wounds. In your trouble 1 prescribe
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had 1t worse than you will ever have II
have gone sonRful on their way. Re-
member that God keeps the chronology
, of your life with as much precision as
he keeps the the chronology of nations
your death as we'll as your birth your
grave as we'll as your cradle.
, Why was 1t that at midnight, just
, at midnight. the destroying angel
struck the blow that set the Israelites
, free from bondagep The 430 years were
up at sl2 O'Clock that night. The 43C
years were not up at II, and l o'clock
would have bean tardy and too late
the destroying angle struck the blow,
and Isreal was free. And God knows
: just the hour when 1t 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 ever
lasting rewards will accord with your
earthly perturbations, just as Caius
gave to Agrippa chain Of gold as
heavy as had been his chain Of iron.
For your asking you may have the
same g1ace that was given to the It.
allan martyr, Algerius, who. down In
the darkest Of dungeons, dated his lot.
ter from "the delectable or chard of the
Leonine prison."
And remember that this brlet life of
ours is surrounded by rim, very
thin but very important rim, and close
up to that rim ls a great eternity, and
you had better keep out Of 1t until God
breaks that rim and separates this from
that. TO get rid of the sorrows Of earth
do not rush into greater sorrows. TIC
got rid Of swan Of summer insects
leap not into a jungle Of Bengal tigers
There is sorrowless world, and 1t Is
SO radiant that monday sun Is only
the lowest doorstep, and the auror athat
lights up our northern heavens, con
l founding astronomers as to what It car
0 be, Is the waving Of the banners of the
procession come to take the c0nquerorI
Q home from church triumphant, ant
r you and have ton thousand reaons To-
o wanting to 90 there, but we will neve
+. get there either by self tmmOlatiOn O.
: lmpenitency. All our sins slain by the
q y Christ who came to do that thing, W,
. want to go In at just the time divinel,
arranged and from q couch divinel,
spread, and then the clang of the sepul
i chral gates behind us will be overpoW
Q cred by the clang Of the opening O
. the solid pearl before us. o God, what
8 ever others may choose give me q Christ
=, ian's life, Christians death, q Christ
8 ian's burial, a Christians Immortality
ADual Life.
LEXINGTON, KY, Aug. 14.--Judge!
Mahon and Walters, of Hannibal, Mo
= are In the city taking depositiOns II
: the suit recently instituted at Hanniba
: by Dorcas M. Hampton to recover
, daughters interest In the estate Of hel
= father, DIR. John Hampton, who dice
= several weeks ago in Missouri, leavin,