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

vert dpOlOSctlc LOT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Inidelity puts up no bar to peoples
rushing out from this 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 Oblivious nowhere or glorious
somewhere. And infdelity holds the
upper end of the rope for the suicide,
and aims the pistol with which man
blows his brains out, and mixes the
strychnine for the last swallow.
have sometimes heard it discussed
whether the great dramatist was a
Christian or not. 1 do not know, but I
know that he considered appreciation
of a future existence the mightiest
hindrance to self-destruction:
For who would bear the whips and scorns of
time.
The OppreSsor's wrong, the proud mans con-
tumely,
The pangs Of despisd love. the laws delay,
The inSolence OF office, and the Spurns
That patient merit Of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his Quietus make
With bare botkin. Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under q weary life,
But that the dread of something after death
The undiscovered country from whose bourne
No traveller returns-puzzles the will.
Would God that the coroncrs would
be brave in rendering the right verdict,
and when in the case of Irresponsible
ity they say: while this man was de-
mented he took his life," in the other
case say: Having read infidel books
and attended infidel lectures, which OBJ
liberated from this mans mind all APP
probation of anything like future retri-
button, he committed felf-slaughter"'
All! Infidelity, stand up and take thy
sentence! In the presence of God and
angels and men, stand up, thou mon
ster, thy lips blasted with blasphemy,
thy cheek Scared with lust, thy breath
foul with the corruption of the ages!
Stand up, Satyr, filthy goat, buzzard
of the nations, leper of the centuries!
Stand up, thou monster Infdelityl
Part man, part panther, part reptile,
part dragon, stand up and take thy
sentence! Thy hands 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 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 everlasting miserere
of those whom thou has damned! l
brand the forehead of Infidelity with
all the crimes of self-immolation for
the last century on the part of those
who had their reason.
My friends, if ever your life through
its abrasions and it's molestatiOns
should seem to be unbearable, and you
are tempted to quit it 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-
sist We. Christ came to medicine all
our wounds. In your trouble l pre-
scribe life instead of death.
Why was it that at midnight, just at
midnight, the destroying angel struck
the blow that set the Israelites free
from bondage? The $50 years were up
at IL o'clock that night. The 43O were
not up at IL. and at l o'clock would
have been tardy and too late. The 400
years were up at IL o'clock. and tho
destroying angel struck the blow that
Israel was free. And God knows just
the hour when it is time to lead you
up from earthly bondage. BY His grace
make not the worst of things, but the
best of them.
There is a sorrowless world, and it Is
SO radiant that the MONDAY sun is only
the lowest doorstep and the aurora
that lights up our northern heavens,
confounding astronomers as to what it
can be, is the waving of the banners
of the procession come to take the con-
querors home from church militant to
church triumphant, and you and
have ten thousand reasons for
wanting to go there, but we will
never get there by self-immola-
ton or impenitency. All our sins
slain by the Christ who came to do
that thing, we want to go in at just the
time divinely arranged, and from . |
couch divinely spread, and then the
clang of the sepulchral gates behind NJ
will be overpowered by the clang of
the opening of the solid pearl before
us o God, whatever others may
choose, give me . Christians life, . |
Christians death, q Christian's burial. !
. Christians immortality.