Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-08-17


conc prime misiSier Of Absalo,.i and Joining
that fellow In his attempt at pArricide. Not
getting what hp wanted by change OF politics
h. takes a short cut out OF disgraced lie
INTO the suicides eternity. There he is, the
inyratei
Here Is Abinelsch practically suicide.
He Is with an army 0onbardlng tower,
when woman In the tower taxes grind
stone from its place and drops II upon his
head. an with what life he has left In
cracked skull h, comman Is his armor bearer,
"Draw thy sworl AMI slay me-. lest men say
a woman slew me. There is his post norton
photograph In III. book Of Samuel. But the
hrro o; this group h Judas Iscariot. DIR.
Dome says he was "A martyr, and we have In
our day apo,ogists for him. And what Won
der in this day when We have book reveal
ing Aaron Burr AS u pattern Of virtue, and
in this day when We uncover a statue to
Geors.. sand Ms the benalactress OF litera-
turr. aud IN tvs lay when there are be-
travils OF Christ on the part OF some Of His
pretended apostles-2 betrayal so black IL
makes the iniamy of Judas Iscariot white
Yet this man BY his own hand hung up for
the execration OF all the age, Judas Iscar.ot.
All the goo men and women OF the Bible
lett TO God the decision of their earthly ter
minus. ami they could have said with Job,
who had right to commit suicide IL any
man ever had-what with his DESTROYED
property. and his body all afiame with insult
fernble ,.arhuncles, and everything gone
from his home except the hief curse OF it
a prstiferous wiie-and four garrulous peo.
Die peting him with comfortless talk while
he sits on heap OF ashes scratching his
srabs with piece OF broken pottery, yet
crying out in triumph, "All the DAYS OF my
appointed time will wait till my change
come.
Notwithstanding the Bible is against this
evil and the aversion which 1t creates by the
lopthsomc AMI ghastly spectacle OF those
who have hurled themselves out
OF life, and Notwithstanding Christ
ianity is against It and the argu
ments and the useful lives an1the illustrious
deaths OF its disciples, 1t Is a fact alarming
Is patent that su cide Is on the increase
WHAT is the cause? | charge upon iniidelty
ami agnosticism this whole thing. II there
he no hereafter, or If that hereafter be bliss
full without reference to how We live and how
We die why not move back the folding doors
between this world and the next2 And when
our existence here becomes trouble, ONE why
not pass right over into Elysium? Put this
down among your most solemn reflections
and consider II after you 90 to your homes
there has never been a case of suicide
where the operator was not either demented,
ami therefore Irresponsible or an infldel. |
challenge all the ages. and l challenge the
whole universe. There never has been a
case OF self destruction while In full appre-
station OF his immortality and OF the fact
that that immortality would be glorious or
wretched according as no accepted Jesus
Christ or rejected Hin.
You say IL is business trouble, or YOU say
II is electrical currents, or 1t is this or 1t Is
that or It is the other thing. Why not go
clear back, my friend, and acknowledge that
In every case 1t is the abdication OF reason or
the teaching OF inldelity which practically
SAYS, "If YOU don't like this life get out OF
II and you will land either In annihilation,
where there are no notes to pay, no persecu-
tons TO suffer, no govt to torment, or you
Will land where there will be everything
glorious and nothing TO pay for it' Infideli-
~ always has been apologetic for self immo-
lation. After Tom Paine's cage OF Reason"
was published and widely read there was a
marked increase Of seIf-slaughter.
Rousseau, VOltaire, Gibbon, Montagne,
under certain circumstances, were apClo-
getic for self immolation. lntideuty oG;s up
no bar to peoples rushing out from .nis
world into the next. They teach US It does
not make any difference how you live here
or go out OF this world, you will land either
in an obiivious nowhere or q glorious some
Wuert. Anu tue upper enQ
Of the rope for the suicide, and aims the
pistol with which a man blows his brains
out, and mixes the strychnine for the last
swallow. II inhdelity could carry the day
and persuade the ma jority OF people that It
does not made any difference how you 20
out of the world you will land safely, the
rivers would be 50 full OF corpses the Jerry
boats would be impeded in their progress.
and the crack OF II suicides pistol would b
no more alarming than the rumble OF street
car.
All, inldelity, stand up and take thy sem
tence In the presence OF God and angels
and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip
blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek SCARED
with lust, Thy breath foul with the corrup-
ton OF the ages Stand up, satyr, filthy
goat, buzZard OF the nations, leper OF the
centuries stand up, thou monster iniide-
ity, part man, part panther, part reptile, part
dragon, stand up and take thy sentence
Thy hand Is red with the blood In which
thou hast washed, thy feet crimson with the
human gore through which thou hast waded.
Stand up and take thy sentence Down with
thee 10 the pit and sup on the sobs AMI
groans Of families thou hast blasted, and roll
on the bed OF knives which thou hast sharp
enei for Others, and let thy music be the
everlasting miserere OF those whom thou
hast damned brand the forehead OF inf
delity With all the crimes of self immolatton
Tor the last century on the part OF those who
had their reason.
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