The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-08-06

between this world and the nextP
And when our existence here be-
comes troublesome why not pass right
over into Elysium? Put this down
amo ng your most solemn reflections
There has never been case of suicide
where the operator was not either
dem ented, and therefore irresponsible,
OF an infidel. challenge all the ages,
and l challenge the universe. There
never has been a case of self-destruc-
tion 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 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
land where there will be everything
glorious and nothing to pay for it,"
Infdelity has always been apologize
for self-immolation. After Tom Paine's
"Age of Reason" was published and
widely read there was marked in
crease of self-slaughter.
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
sacrifice of Jesus Christ. l know that
he considered appreciation of future
| self-destruction.
| For who would bear the whips and scorns OF
time;
The oppressor's 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 quetus make
| With bare bodlsin? Who would fardels bear,
Togrunt and sweat under weary life,
| But that the dread of something after death
The undiscovered country from whose bourne
| No traveller returns-puzzes the willY
Would God that the coroners would
be brave in rendering the right yer"
dict, and when in a case of irresponsi.
bility they say: "While this man was
demented he took his life;" in ths
other case say: Having read infidel
books and attended infdel lectures,
which obliterated from this mans
mind all appreciation of future retribu-
ton, he cSmnitted self-shughter!'
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
of morals He left and the religion He
has given us are the best things the
world has ever seen or likely to see."
Patrick Henry, the electric champion
ofliberty, says: "The book worth ali
other books 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: ~ invoke the
Lord God in whom am glad to be-
lieve.p 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.
All! Infdelity, stand up and take
thy sentence! In the presence of God,
Sngels and men, stand up, thou mon
ster. Thy lip blasted with blasphemy,
thy cheek SCARED with uncleanness,
thy breath foul with the corruption Of
the ages Stand up, Satyr, filthy goat,
buzzard of the nations, leper of the
centuriesl Stand up, thou monster,
Infdelity! Part man, part panther,
part reptile, part dragon, stand up
and take thy sentence! Thy hands
red with the blood in which
thou hast washed, thy feet Grim.
son with the human gore through
which thou hast waded, stand up and
take thy sentence! Down with thee to
the pit, and sup on the sobs and groaDs
of those thou hast destroyed, and let
thy music be the everlasting miserere
of those whom thou hast damned! /
: brand the forehead of infidelity with
= all the crimes of self-immolation for
the last century on the part of those
3 who had their reason.
There is sorrowless world, and it
9 is SO radiant that the MONDAY sun is
:, only the lowest doorstep, and the au-
: rora that lights up our northern heav-
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 5000 reasons for wanting to go
= there, but we will never get there
either by self-immolation or impeni-
!, teacv. All our sins slain by Christ
= who came to do that thing, we want