The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-08-23
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deliver his iulidel lecture on Socialism"
and went homo aud sat down and
wrote those words. "Jesus Christ
is one Of the weakest characters in
history and tho Bible is tho greatest
possible deception" and then shot
himself. David Hume wrote these
worde: "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 divertinR few
drops Of blood from their ordinary
channel ?" And having written the es
say he loaned 1t TO a 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
taigue, under certain circumstances,
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 go
out OF this world, you will land either
In an ObliVtous no where or a 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
60 out Of the world you will land safe
" 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.
Ahl infldlity, stand up and take thy
SENTENCED In the presence Of God and
angles and men, 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 centuries! Stand up,
thou, monster iniidelttyi Part man part
panther, part reptile, part dragon,
stand up, and take thy sentenced 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 damned brand the forehead OF
intidelity with all the crimes Of self i'm
notation for the last century on the
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| My friends, IL ever your life thought
its abrasions and Its molestationa
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 50 re.
sist ye. Christ came to medicine all our
wounds. In your trouble l prescribe
life instead OF death. People who have
had 1t worse than you will ever have II
have gone songful 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 bondage2 The 42O years were
up at !l2 o'clock that night. The 43C
years were not up at II, and o'clock
would have besn tardy and too late
The 43O years were up at IL o'clock, and
the destroying angle struck the blow,
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. Y our ever
lasting rewards will accord with your
earthly perturbations, just az Caius
gave to Agrippa chain of gold as
heavy as had been his chain Of iron.
For your asking you may have the
same Rlace that was given to the It.
allan martyr, Algerius, who. down in
the darkest Of dungeons, dated his lot
ter 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 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
get rid Of o 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, ahd the aurorathat
lights up our northern heavens, con.
founding astronomers as to what 1t can
be, 1s the waving Of the banners of the
procession come to take the conquerorE
home from church triumphant, and
you and have ten thousand reaons fol
wanting to go there, but we will never
get there either by self immolation OF
!mponlCency. All our sins Slatii Uy the
Christ who came to do that thing, we
want to 90 In at just the time divinely
arranged and from couch divinelJ
spread, and then the clang Of the sepul
chral gates behind us will he overpow
cred by the clang Of the opening OF
the solid pearl before us. 0 God, what
ever others may choose,give me Christ
ian g life, Christians g death, Christ
ian's burial, a Christians immortality
| A Dual Life.
LEXINGTON, KY, Aug. 14.-Judges
Mahon and Walters, Of Hannibal, Mo.
are In the city taking depositiOns In
the suit recently instituted at Hannibal
by Dorcas M. Hampton to recover s
daughters interest In the estate Of her
father, DR.. John Hampton, who died
several weeks ago In Missouri, leaving
an estate valued at $76,00O.
The deposition already taken are
startling In the extreme, and prove