The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-07-23

blissful 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 our existence here be-
comes troublesome why not pass right
over into Elysium? Put this down
among your most solemn reflections.
There has never been a case of suicide
where the operator was not either
demented, and therefore irresponsible,
or an infidel. l challenge all the ages,
and l challenge the universe. There
n ever has been a case of self-destruc.
ton while in full appreciation of his
Immortality and of the fact that that
immortality would be glorious or
wretched according rs he accepted
Jesus Christ or rejected Aim.
You say it is business trouble, or
you say it is electrical current, or it 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 or
the teaching of intidelity, which prae-
tically says:a4ssf you don't like this
life gettsorft 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
land where there will be everything
glorious and nothing to pay for it."
1nfdelity has always been apologize
for self-immolation. After Tom Paine's
age of Reason" was published aud
widely read there was marked in
crease of selfslaughter. ~
Have nothing to do with an infidelity
SO cruel, SO debasing. Come out OF that
bad company into the company of those
who believe the Bible. Benjamin
Franklin wrote: "Of this Jesus of
Nazareth have to say that the system
u of morals He left and the religion He
has given us are the best things the
world has ever seen or likely to see. Z"
Patrick Henry, the electric champion
of liberty, says: "The book worth all
other looks put together is the Bible"
benjamin Rush, the leading physiolo-
gist and anatomist of his day, the
great medical scientist-what did he
say?" "The only true and perfect
religion is Christianity" Isaac New
ton, the leading philosopher of his
time-what did he say? 1.-The sublim.
est philosophy on earth is the philoso-
ply of the Gospel" David Brewster,
at the pronunciation of whose name
every scientist the world over bows his
head; David Brewster, saying: "Oh,
this religion has been great light to
me, very great light all my days"
President Theirs, the great French
statesman, acknowledging that he
prayed when he said: II invoke the
Lord God, in whom am glad to be-
lieve." David Livingstone, able to con-
quer the lion, able to conquer the
panther, able to conquer the savage,
yet conquered by this religion, SO when
they find him dead they find him on
his knees.
Salmon p. Chase, chief justice of the
supreme court of the United States, APP
pointed by President Lincoln, will take
the witness stand. ''Chief Justice
Chase, please to state what you have to
say about the book commonly called
| the Bible" The witness replies:
"There came a time in my life when l
doubted the divinity of the Scriptures,
and resolved, as a lawyer and judge,
| L would try the book as l would try
| anything in the courtroom, taking
evidence for and against. was long
and serious and profound study, and
using the same principles of evil
dence in this religious matter as
l always do in secular matters, l
| have come to the decision that the
Bible is a supernatural book, that it
has come from God, and that the only
| safety for the human race is to follow
its teachings" Judge, that will do.
Go back again to your pillow of dust
on the banks of the Ohio" Next put
upon the witness stand president of
the United States John Quincy
Adams. president Adams what have
you to say about the Bible and Chris
tianity?' The president replies II
have for many years made it u practice
to read through the Bible once year.
Ny custom is to read four or five chap
tiers every morning Immediately
after rising from my bed. 1t employs
about an hour of my time, and
seems to me the most suitable manner
of beginning the day. In what light
soever we regard the Bible whether
with reference to revelation, to history
or to morality, it is an invaluable and
inexhaustible mine of knowledge and
virtue" chancellor Kent, what do
you think of the Bible?" Answer: mo
other book ever addressed itself so au-
thoritatively and so pathetically to the
Judgment and moral sense of man
kind" Edmund Burke, what do you
think of the Bible?" Answer: II
have read the Bible, morning, noon
and night, and have ever since been
happier and the better man for such
reading"
There is sorrowlcss world, an d it
is SO radiant that the monday sun is
only the lowest doorstep, and the au-
rora that lights up our northern hcav-
ems, 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 mill
tant to church triumphant, and you and
have 10, 900 reasons for wanting to go
there, but we will never get there
either by self-immolation or impeni-
tency. All our sins slain by Christ