The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-08-24

to spring, and rode back to his home,
and that night threw himself upon his
own knife, but the blade broke, and
then he hanged himself to the ceiling,
but the rope parted. No wonder that
when God mercifully delivered him
from that awful dementia he sat down
and wrote that other hymn just as
memorable:
God moves in q mysterious way
His wonders to perform:
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan His work in vain:
God is His own interpreter
And He will make it plain.
While we make this merciful and
righteous allowance in regard to those
who were 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 l prove it? Revelation xxi. 8:
'Murderers shall have their part in the
lake which burneth with fire and brim-
stone" Revelation xxi. Is: without
are dogs and sorcerers, and who're
mongers, and murderers." You do
not believe the New Testament?
Then, perhaps, you believe the
Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt
not kill" Do you say all these passages
refer to the taking of the life of others?
Then ask you if you are not response
BILE for your own life as for the life of
others? God gave you special trust
in you life. He made you the custodian
of your life as he made you the custO-
dian of no other life. He gave you as
weapons with which to defend it two
arms to strike back assailants, two
eyes to watch for invasion, and a ma
tural love of life which ought ever to
be on the alert. Assassination of
others is a mild crime compared with
the assassination of yourself, because
in the latter case it is treachery to an
especial trust, it is the surrender of
castle you were especially appointed to
keep, it is treason to natural law and
it is treason to God added to ordinary
murder.
To show how God in the Bible looked
upon this crime, l 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-1O
feet in stature chasing 4. Here is the
man who consulted clairvoyant,
Witch of Endor. Here is man who,
whipped in battle, instead of surren-
dering his sword with dignity, as many
a man has done. asks his servant to
slay him, and when the servant de-
clines, 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
Machiavelli of olden times, betraying
his best friend David in order that he |
may become prime minister to Absa-
lom, and joining that fellow in his at
tempt at parricide. Not getting what
he wanted by change of politics, he
takes short cut out of disgraced |
life into suicides eternity. There he |
is, the migrate.
Here is Abimelech, practically a
He is with an army bonn
harding a tower, when a woman in the |
tower takes a grindstone from it's |
place and drops it upon his head. and |
with what life he has left in a cracked |
skull he commands his armor-bearer: |
Draw thy sword and STAY me, lest |
men say a woman slew me-" There is |
his post mortem photograph in the |
Book of Samuel. But the hero of this |
says he was martyr. and we have in |
our day apologists for him. And what
wonder, in this day when we have a
book revealing Aaron Burr as a pattern |
of virtue, and in this day when we I'M
cover a statue to George Sand as the |
to literature, and in this !
day when there are betrayals of Christ |
on the part of some of his pretended |
apostles-a betrayal SO black it makes |
Yet this man by his own hand hung up |
for the execration of all the ages, Judas |
Iscariot.
Ali the good men and women of the |
Bible left to God the decision of their |
earthly terminus, and they could have |
said with Job. who had a right to COM
NIT suicide if 1ny man ever had-what |
with his destroyed property, and his
body all afane with insufferable car
and everything gone from his |
home except the chief curse of it, a |
pestiferous wife and four garrulous |
people pelting him with comfortless |
talk while he sits on q heap of ashes |
his scabs with a piece of i
broken pottery, yet crying out in tri-
umph: ''All the days of my appointed |
time will I wait till my change come"
Notwithstanding the Bible is against |
this evil, and the aversion which it |
creates by the loathsome and CHASTITY
spectacle of those who have buried /
out of life, and notwith-
Christianity is against it. and
the arguments and the useful lives and |
the illustrious deaths of its disciples, it
is fact alarmingly patent that suicide
Ia IN tho sucroaSo What Is the causoC !