Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-12

nothing to pay for it," Infidelity has
always been apologize for self immola-
ton. After Tom Paine's cage of Rea-
son" was published and widely read
there was marked increase Of self
slaughter.
A man in London heard Mr.. Owen
deliver his infidel lecture on socialism
and went home, sat down and wrote
these words, "Jesus Christ is one Of the
weakest characters in history, and the
Bible is the greatest possible deception, "
and then shot himself. David Hume
wrote these words: "It would be no
crime for me to divert the Nile or the
Danube from it's natural bed. Where,
then, can be the crime in my diverting
a few drops of blood from their ordi-
nary channel?" And having written the
essay he loaned it to friend; the friend
read it, wrote letter of thanks and ad-
miration and shot himself. Appendix
to the same book.
Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Mon
taigne were apologize for self immola-
ton. Intidelity puts up no bar to people
rushing out from this world into the
next They teach US 1t does not make
any difference how you live here or go
out of this world; you will land either
in an oblivious nowhere or a glorious
somewhere. And infidelity 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. If in
fidelity could carry the day and per-
suade the majority Of people in this
country that it does not make any diff
ference how you 60 out of this world
you will land safely, the Potomac
would be SO full of corpses the boats
would be impeded in their progress, and
the crack of the suicides pistol would
be no more alarming than the rumble
| Of a street car
have sometimes heard it discussed
whether the great dramatist was q
Christian or not He was Christian.
In his last will and testament he COM
mends his soul to God through the sac
rifice of Jesus Christ know that he
considered appreciation Of future ex-
istence the mightiest hindrance to self
destruction:
For who would bear the whips and scorns Of
| time,
The oppressors wrong, the proud mans con,
tumely
The pangs Of despised love, the laws delay,
The insolence of Office and the spurns
That patient merit Of the unworthy takes
When he himself might his quietus mako
With bare bodknf Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a 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 coroners would
be bravo in rendering the right verdict,
and, when in case of responsibility
they say, "While this man was de-
mented he took his life," in the other
case say, Having read infidel books
and attended infdel lectures, which OBJ.
liberated from this mans mind all ap.
probation of future retribution, he com
mitted self slaughter.
Get In Good Company.
Have nothing to do with an infldelity
so cruel, SO debasing. Come out of thai
bad company into the company Of those
who believe the Bible Benjamin Frank
lin wrote, "Of this Jesus of Nazareth
have to say that the system of morals
he left and the religion he has given III
are the best things the world has evel
seen or is likely to see" Patrick Henry
the electric champion of liberty, says
1.-THE book worth all other books put to
gether is the Bible" Benjamin Rush
the leading Psychologist and anatomis
of his day, the great medical scientist
what did he say? 1.-THE only true ane
perfect religion is Christianity. Isaac
Newton, the leading philosopher of hi
time-what did he say? 1.-THE sublimes
philosophy Oh earth is the philosophy o
the gospel" David Brewster, at tn
pronunciation of whose name every sci
enlist the world over bows his head
David Brewster saying, ooh, this re
ligion has been a great light to me, ;
very great light, all my days" Presi
dent Theirs, the great French statesman
acknowledging that he prayed when b
said, 81 invoke the Lord God, in whom
am glad to believed" David Living
, stone, able to conquer the lion, able t.
conquer the panther, able to conquo
, the savage, yet conquered by this re
ligion, SO when they find him dead the.
find him on his knees.
+ Salmon P. Chase chief justice of tn
+ supreme court of the United States, ap
pointed by President Lincoln, will tax
the witness stand. Chief Justice Chase
please to state what you have to sa.
, about the book commonly called the 81
r ble" The witness replies: There cam
, "a time in my life when / doubted tn
divinity of the Scriptures, and ! resolv
=: ed as lawyer and judge would IT,
s The book as would try anything ill tn
: courtroom, taking evidence for ant
S against. 1t was long and serious ant
i profound study, and, using the sam
: principles of evidence in this religion
K matter as / always do in secular mat
: tiers, have come to the decision tina
a the Bible is supernatural book, tina
! it has como from God and that the onl
l safety for the human race is to follo'
its teachings" Judge, that will dc
t Go back again to your pillow of dust o
y the banks of the Ohio. Next pu
y upon the witness stand president {
= the United States-John Quincy Adams
Q "President Adams, what have you
l. say about tie Bible and Christianity?
!. The president replies: II have for man
t years made it practice to read throug
g the Bible once year. My custom is
e read four or five chapters every mornin
S Immediately after rising from my be-
+ 1t employs about an hour of my tin
and seems to me the most suitable mai