Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-08-18

end Cbasaee Wesley the chief honure o,
Christiafshymnology. In hypochondri;
he< resolved to take his own life ant
rode TO The river Thames, but found t
man eeafed on some goods nj the yerJ
point from which he expected 10 spring
aud rode back 30 his homo and tho
night threw himself upon his owl
knife, but the blade broke, and then h,
banged himself to the ceiling. bat tir
rope paved. No wonder that when Cox
lnecifuly delivered him from tha'
awful dementia he sat down and wOh
thaS oBhs.r hymn Just as memorubla
GM moyes IN mysterious wey
Hts wonders TO perform.
Ga plants HE footsteps In tho sess
And rides upon tho storm
E9ind unbclief Is cure 70 csS
And scan his work IN vatn.
God Is his own interpreter,
And he Will make IL paih.
Treason 20 God.
White We make this lnercfful an(
righteous allowance IN regard 10 thost
who wesc plunged into mental ipcohar'
enca I asclare that tho mon who In tht
use OF his reason. by his own oct, snap;
the bo1S between bis body and bis ron.
goes etsight into poditim. Shall
prove itE Revelation xxi. 8, Murder
ors ehoil have their part in the lake
which bssErneth With fire and brimstone;
Revelation xii, Is. Without nHe dog
and solserera and whorcmongera and
murdeisSs You do not believe tht
New Testament? Then perhaps you BE-
lieve tts Ten Commandments Thou
sholt nSy Kill "
Do ys5n say all these passages refer &c
the takjag OF the life OF others? Then
ask yousf you ere not as responsible ion
your own life Us for the life Of others
God gese you special trust IN yooI
lite lie made VOC tho custodian OF
your His Us no made you the custodian
of no osSAer life He gave you us woap
ons WITH which TO defend 1t two arms
to strike back assailants, two eyes tt
watch for invasion and o natural love
Of ifewhich ought ever TO be ON the
alert, ASSASSINATION Of others is mild
crime compared with the assassinatior
OF yourself. beoanee in the latter case il
is treechery to an especial trust, 1t Is the
surrender Of castle you were especially
appointed to keep it is treason to @ not
usal lag, and it Is treason to'God add
cd to oslt1nary murder.
TO show how God In tho Bible looked
upon sais crime l point you TO tho roGues
picture gallery in soue parts of the 81
bio, thSspicturos Of tho people who haSt
committed this unnatural crime. Here
Is the headless trunk Of Saul OF The
walls az Bathshan. Here Is the MOL
who chased little Devid-lO feet IN
stature chasing 1. Here is the man
who Consulted q clairvoyant witch Of
Endor, Here rs e man who. whipped IN
battle Instead OF surrosideriDg bis
sword 9Th dignity, his many man haf
done, asks his servant to STAY him. AND
when lie servant declines then tho giant
plants ghe hilt Of the sword in the earth,
the shkI potat sticking upward, and he
thross On. it ard expires. the
s55~s.t II TIC su1cadoi Hefe Il Ahitho-
phel, the Machiavelli Of olden times
betraying bis best friend, David. IN or.
der that be may become primo minister
OF Abealom and joining that follow In
his attempt at parricide Nut getting
what he wanted by change Of politics,
be takes short cut out of disgraced
life into the suicides eternity There be
Is, the migrate
Two Cesee In Point.
Hero is Abimelech practically su.-
oida He is with on army bombarding
o tower, when O woman In the tower
takes o grindstone from Its placo and
drops it upon his head, and With what
life be has left In cracked skull be
commands his armor bearer, Draw thy
sword and slay me- lest men say wom-
ON slew me. :" There Is his post Inortem
photograph In the book Of samuel But
the hero Of this group Is Judas lscar1o-
DR.. Dome says he was martyr, and
we have in or day apolosists for him
And what wonder In this day when wo
have book revealing Aaron Burr Us q
pattern OF virtue, and In this doy when
we uncover statue TO George Sand as
tho beuefacness Of literature and n
this day when there are betrayals Of
Christ on the part of some OF his PIE
tended apostles-a betrayal 50 black II
makes the infamy Cd Judas Iscariot
whitei Yet this man By his own hand
hung up Cor the 6xecraSIOn CT all the
ages, Judas Iscariot
All the good men and women OF The
Bible left TO God the decision Of rheir
earthly terminus, and they could have
said with job who had o right TO com
NIT suicide if any man cner had-wh0t
with his destroyed property, and his
todyall nfanewith insufereble oarbun-
Giles, and everything gone from bis home
except the chief curse Of it-o pestifer-
eos wife-and four garrulous people
pelting him with comfortless talk while
be sits on heap Of astes scratching his
sunbs With a piece Of broken pottery,
yet crying cut In Triumph "AIl the
days Of my appointed rtme Will walt
till my change CONC
Notwithstanding tho Bible IS against
this evil and the aversion which 1t ere
ases by the loathsome and ghastly spec
tacle Of those who have Hurled them
selves out Of life, and Notwithstanding
Christianity Is against 1t and the argu-
ments and the useful lives and the inus-
trious deaths Of Its disciples, IL Is o fact
alarmingly patent that suicide as ca the
ipc7eosa What Is the ceusee charge
upon in6delity and agnosttcdsm this
whole thing If there be no hereafter
OF II that hereafter be blissful without
reference to how we 1--we aud how we
de why not move back fte folding
doors between this world and the pextt
And when cur existence here becomes
troublesome why not pass right oSeG
into Elysium9 Pot this down among
your most solemn reflections and con-
slider It after you go to your bones
there has never been case OF suicide
where the operator was not either de-
Ill Il