The morning times., 1897-01-11

daZed and frenZied state into perfect
safety. How Christ feels toward the in
sane you may know from the way He
treated the demoniac of Gadara and the
child lunatic, and the potency with which
He h,ished tempests either OF sea or brain.
scotland, the land of prolific intellectual
giants, had none grander than Hugh Miller.
Great for science and great for God. He
was an elder in ST. Joints Presbyterian
Church. He came of the best Highland
blood and wasa descendant of Donald Id Roy
a man eminent for piety and the rare gift
OF second sight. His attainments, climb
ing up as he did fl ON the quarry and the
wall of the stonemason, drew forth the
astonished admiration OF Buckland and
Murchison, the scientists, and l3r. Chalmers,
the theologian, and held universities spell
Eoand while he told them the story OF
what he had seen of God in The old red
sandstone ttlss:s
THAT man did more than any being
that ever lived to show that the God of
the hills is the God OF the Bible, and he
struck his tuning-fork on the rocks Of
Cromarty until he brought geology and
theology accordant in divine worship. His
two books, entitled Footprints OF the
Creator,n and THE Testimony Of the
Rocks" proclaimed the banns of an ever
lasting 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 revolver by his side,
the cruel instrument having had two bnl-
lets, one for him and the other for the
gunsmith, who, at the coroner's inquest,
was examining it and fell dead. Have you
any doubt of the beatificution of Hugh
Miller, after his hot brain had ceased
throbbing that winter nightin his study at
Portobello? Among the mishtest of earth,
| among the mightiest OF heaven. F
The Case of Cowper.
''So- one doubted the piety of William
Cowper, the author OF those three great
hymns, oh, for q Closer Walk With God,',
What Various Hindrances WeMeet,' There
| Is a Fountain Filled With Blood, William
| Cowper, who shares with Isaac Watts and
| Charles Wesley the chief honors of Chris
| tian hymnology. In hypochondria he re-
| solved to take his own life, and rode to
| the River Thames, but found a man seated
| on some goods at the very point from
which he expected to spring, and rode
| back to his home, and that night threw
| hims elf upon his own knife, but the blade
| broke; and then he hanged himself to the
| ceiling, but the rope broke. No wonder
| that when God mercifully delivered him
| from that awful dementia he sat down
| and wrote that other hymn, just as
| memorable:
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform,
| He plants His footsteps in the sea-
And rides upon tile storm.
| Blind unbeief is sure to err
A nd sean his work insyain;
| God is His own interpreter
A nd He Will make it plain.
"WliIe we make this merciful and right
| eous allowance in regard to those who We're
! plunged into mental incoherence, i de-
| clare that that man who in the use of his
| reason, by his own act, snaps the bond be-
| tween his body and his soul, goes straight
into perdition. Shall prove it? Revela-
| ton XXi:S: 'Murderers shall have their
| part in the lake which burneth with fire
! and brinstone.' Revelation XXii:15: With
| out are dogs and sorcerers and whore
| mongers and murderers.' You do not be-
! leye the New Testament? Then, perhaps,
| you believe tile Ten Commandments: Thou
| shalt not kill Do you say all these pas
| sages refer to tlie taking of the life aof
| others? Then ask you If you are not as
responsible for your own life as for tile
life of others. God gave you a special trust
in your life He made you the custodian
of your life, and He made you the custo-
| dian of no other life.
The Bible and Suicide.
ITO show how God in the Bible looked
upon this crime, point you to the rogues
picture galleryin IN some parts OF the Bible
the pictures of the people who have commit
ted this unnatural crime. Here is the head
less trunk of Saul ON the walls of Bathshan
Here is the man who chased little David
ten feet in stature chasing four. Here is
the man who consulted clairvoyant
Witch of ndor.
but the hero of this group is Juda
Iscariot. DR.. Donne says he was martyr
and we have in our day apologists for him
And what wonder, in this day when W,
| have a book revealing Aaron Burr as7a
pattern of virtue, and this day when W,
uncover statue of George Sand as tn
benefactress of literature, and in this-day
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part of some of His pretended apostles
betrayal so black it makes the iufamy o
Judas Iscariot white. Yet this man by hi
own hand hung up for the execration o
all ages, Judas Iscariot.
'All the good men and women of the
Bible leftto God the decision of their earthl,
terminus, and they could have said witt
job, All the days of my appointed tint
will wait till my change come
Notwithstanding the Bible is agains
| this evil, and the aversion which it create
by the loathsome and CHASTITY spectacle O
those who have hurled themselves out o
life, and Notwithstanding Christianity il
against it, and the arguments and the Use
| fu lives and the iflustrous deaths of it
disciples, it is fact alarningly paten
that suicide is on the increase. What
the cause? l charge upon infidelity ant
agnostcism this whole thing.
II challenge all the ages, and l cha
lenge the universe. There never has
been a case of self-destruction while il
full appreciation of his Immortality and o
| the fact that that Immortality would b,
| glorious or wretched according as he &C
cepted Jesus Christ or rejected Him.
Apologize for Self-Immolation.
''Rosseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigu,
were apologetic for self-immolation. In
fidelity puts up no bar to peoples rusf
ing out from this world into the nexi
| They teach US it does not make any di1
ference how you live here or go out O
this world; you will land either in an oh
liyious nowhere or a glorious some where
| And infidolity holds the Ipuer end of th