The Progress., 1894-08-18
and he struck his tuning fork on the

titled "fOOtprintS Of the Creator and
the ''TeStimOnv Of the Rocks pro-
ella lined the bans Of an everlasting
marriage between genuine science
and revelation. On this latter book
he toiled day and night through love
OF nature and love of God. until he
could not Sleep and his brain gave
way, and he was found dead with a
rc Iolver by his side, the cruel in stru-
mcnt having had two bulletS-Onr for
him and the other for the gunsmith
who ut the cOroncr'S inquest was eX
amining it and fell dead Have Won
any doubt of the Identification Of Hugh
Miller, after his hot brain had ceased
throbb;ng that winter night in his
study at portobrllo? Among the
mlghtieSt Of earth, among the might
est of heaven
Notwithstanding the Bible is aga inst
this evil, and the aversion which it
creates by the loathsome and CHASTITY
spectacle Of those who have hurled
themselves out of life, and nOtWith-
standing christianity is against it,
and the arguments and the useful
lives and the iilustrious deaths of its
disciples, it is fact alarminyly patent
that suicide is on the increase.
What is the cause? | charge upon
intidelity and agnosticisn this whole
thing.
All. lniidelity, stand up and take
thy sentence. In the presence of God
and angels and men, stand up, thou
monster, thy lip blasted With bias
phcmy, thy cheek Scared with lust,
thy breath foul with the corruption
Of the ages! Stand up Satyr, fl.
thy goat Duzzard of the nations. leper
Of the centuries! Stand up thou mon
,ter intidelity! Part man. part pam
ther 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 SEN
tence! 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 mlserere of those whom
thou hast damned. I brand the fore
head of lntidelity with all the crimes
of elf-immolation for the last century
on the part Of those who had their
reason.
My friends, if ever your life through
its abrasions and its molestations
should seem to be un beara bic, and
you are tempted to quit it by your
own behest do not consider yourselves
as worse than others. Christ himself
was tempted to cast himself from the
roof of the temples; but as he re-
sisted, so resist We. Christ came to
medicine all our wounds. In vour
trouble prescribe life instead of
death. People WAC have had it
worse than you will ever have it have
gone songful on their way. Remem-
Der that God keeps the chronology of
your life with as much precision as he
keeps the chronology o: nations, your
death as we'll as your birth, yorr
grave as well as your cradle.
Why was it that at midnight, Just
at midnight, the destroying angel
struck the blow That set the Israelites
free from bondage? The four hun
dred and thirty years were up at y
o'clock that night The four hundred
and thirty years were not up at
II, and / o'clock would have been
tardy and too late. The four hundred
and thirty years were up at II O clock,
and the destroying angel struck the
blow and 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. If you
must take the pills do not chew them.
Your everlasting rewards will accord
with your earthly perturbations, just
as Caius gave to Agrippa a chain of
gold as heavy as had been his chain
of iron. For your asking you may
have the same grace that was given to
the Italian martyr, Algerius, who,
down IN the darkest of dungeons.
dated his letter 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 great eternity,
and you had better keep out of it I'm.
til God breaks that rim and separates
this from that TO get rid Of the sor-
VOWS of earth. do not rush into greater
sorrows To get rid of swarm of
summer insects, leap not into Jungle
of Bengal tigers.
There is 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 conquerors home from church
militant to church triumphant, and
you and have ten thousand reasons
for wanting to 60 there, but we will