Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-07-14
he sat down and wrote that other hymn
just as memorable:


just as memorable:
God moves in a mysterious way.
His wonders to perform;
He plants lli> Otstep> In the sea.
And rides upon the storm.
blind unbclicf is sure to err
And sean His work in vain;
God - Ills own interpreter.
Aud lie will make ii plain.
While we make this merciful and
righteous allowance in regard to those
who We're plunged into mental i'm
conference, | declare that the man who,
in the Use % his reason, by his own
act, snaps the bonds between his body
and his soul, goes straight into perdi.
tom Shall | prove it? Revelations
xxi, s-"MurdercrS shall have their
part In the lake which burneth with
fire and birthstone" Revelations
xii. l5-"Without are dogs and sor-
cerers and whorcmongers and murder
crs." You do not believe the New
Testament? Then, perhaps. you believe
the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt
not kill" Doyou say that all these pas
sageS refer to the taking of the life of
others? Then ask you if you are not
as responsible for your own life as for
the life of others? God gave You n
special trust in life, and made you the
custodian of your life, and he made
you custodian of no Other life. lie
gave you as weapons with which to
defend it two arms to strike back as
sailants, two eyes to watch for in
vasion, and natural love of life
which ought ever to he ON the alert.
Assassination of others is a mild crime
compared with the dissemination of
yourself, because i'll the latter case it
is treachery to an especial trust; it is
the surrender of castle you were
especially appointed to keep: it is
treason to 4 natural law, and it is
treason to Col, added to ordinary
murder.
To show how God in the Bible
looked upon this crime. | point you
to the rorucs picture gallery in some
parts of the Bible, the pictures of the
peoulv who have committed this I'M
natural CRIME. Here il the -hcadlGsS
: trunk of Saul on the walls of Bath.
shan. Here is the man who chased
little David-tcn feet in stature
chasing four Here is the man
who consulted a clairvoyant Witch
of Endur Here is man who,
whipped In battle, instead of surren-
dcring his sword with dignity, as
many a man has done, asks his scrv-
ant to Stay him, and VIII N that servant
declined, then the giant plant, the hilt
of his sword in the earth, the sharp
| point sticking upward, and he throws
his body on il an / expires cow
| ard, the suicide, Hers is Ahitophel,
| the Machiavclli of oldcn times, betray-
| ing his best friend, David, in order
that he may become prime minister OF
| Absalom, and joining that fellow in
his attempt at patricidc. Not getting
what he wanted by change of politics,
he takes short cut out of n disgrace
| full life into the suicides eternity.
There he is, the migrate!
Here is Abimclech, practically a
suicide. lie is with an army BON.
harding n tower, when n woman in the
tower takes grindstone from its
place and drops it upon his head, and
with what life he has left in his crack
|
bearer: Draw thy sword and slay
no, lest men say woman slew me.
There is his post-mortem photograph
in the Book of Samuel.
But the hero of this group is Judas
| lscariot DIR. Donnc SAYS he was a
martyr, and we have in cur apologists
for him And what wonder, in this
day when we have book revealing
| Aaron Burr as pattern of virtue, and
this day when we uncover statue OF
George Sand as the benefactress OF
literature, and in this day when there
are betrayals of Christ on the part OF
some of His pretended apostles-a be,
trayal SO black that it makes the in.
fanny of Judas Iscariot white! Yet
this man by his own hand hung up
for the execration for all ages, Judas
Iscariot.
All the good men and women of the
Bible left to God the decision of their
earthly terminus, and they could have
said with Job, who had right to COM
init sniciG< IL any man ever had, what
with his destroyed property and his
body all aflame with insuffcrable car
buncles, and everything gone from his
home except the chief curse of it, d
pestiferous wife and four garrulous
people pelting him with comfortlcss
talk, while he sits on 4 heap of ashes
scratching his scabs with a piece OF
broken pottery, yet crying out in
triumph: "All the days of my ap
pointed time will l wait till my change
comes"
Notwithstanding the Bible is against
this evil, and the aversion
which it creates by the loath
some and CHASTITY spectacle o.
those who have hurled themselve.
out of life, and Notwithstanding Chris
tianity is against it and the argume ut.
and the useful lives and the illustrioui
deaths of its disciples, it is fact
alarmingly patent that suicide Is OF
the increase What is the cause?
charge upon intidelity and agnosticisn
this whole thing. If there be no here
after, or if that hereafter be blissfu
| without reference to how we
live and how we die, why
not move back the folding doors
between this world and the next:
And when orr existence here become:
troublesome why not pass right over
into Elysium? Put this down among
your most solemn reflections. There
has never been case of suicide where
the operator was not either demented
and therefore irresponsible, or an in
fidel. l challenge all the ages and
challenge the universe. There ha:
never been case of self-destructior
while in full appreciation of his i'm
mortality and of the fact that that i'm
mortality would be glorious or wretch
ed according as he accepted Jesus Chris
or rejected Him.
You say it is business trouble, OIL
you say il is electrical currents, or il
is this or it is that, or it is the other
thing. Why not go clear back, my
friend. and acknowledge that in every
case it is the abdication of reason OF
the teaching of intidelity, which prac'
tically says: IF you don't like this
life get out of it, and you will land
either in humiliation, where there are
no notes to pay, no prosecutions to
suffer, no govt to torment, or you will