The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-07-17

Qualification OF A0&h Miller @1tef hk@
hot brain had ceased tl1Tobbing that
winter night in his study at Portobel-
10? Among the mightiest Of earth.
among the mighticSt Of heaven.
No one doubted the pisty Of william
Cowper, the author Of those three great
hymns, 20. for n Closer Walk with
God, !" What Various Hindrances We
Meet" There il q Fountain FILLED
with Blood"-William Cowper, who
shares with Isaac Watts and Charles
Wesley the chief honors Of Christian
hymnology. In hypochondria he re-
solved to take his own life. and rode to
the river Thames, but found q man
seated on some goods at that very point
from which he expected to spring, and
rode back to his home, and that night
threw himself 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 mer-
cifully delivered him from that awful
dementia he sat down and wrote that
other hymn Just as memorablei
God moves In . mysterious way,
His wonders to perform:
He plants his footsteps In the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Blind unbeliee is sure to err
And scan his work in vain;
God In hia OWL interpreter,
And He Will make it plain
While we make this merciful and
righteous allowance in regard to those
who were plunged into mental inco-
herence I declare that the man who,
In the use of his reasc- by his own act
snaps the bond between his body and
his soul, goes straight into rerdition.
Shall 1 prove itf Revelations 21:s-
"Murderers shall have their part in
the lake which burneth with fire and
birthstone" Revelation 22:15-"with-
out are dogs and sorcerers and who're
mongets and murderers." You do not
believe the New Testament? Then,
perhaps. you believe the Ten Com
mandments: Thou shalt not KILL" Do
you say that all these passages refer to
the taking of the life of others? Then
l ask .syop IL you are not as responsible
for your own life as for the life OF Cth-
ers? God gave you a special trust In
life, and made you the custodian OF
your life. and he made you the custodi-
an Of no other life. He gave you rs wea-
pons with which to defend 1t t1o arms
to strike back assailants, two eyes to
watch for invasion, and a natural love
Of life which ought ever to be on the
alert. Assassination Of others is q mild
crime compared with the assassination
Of yourself. because in the latter case
It is treachery to an especial trust; It Is
the surrender Of castle you were es-
peciAlly appointed to keep: IT In treason
to = natural law, and 1t is treason to
GodSSdded to ordinary murder.
To show how God in the Bible look
ed upon this crime, point you to the
rosues' picture gallery In some parts OF
the Bible, the pictures Of the people
who have committed this unnatural
crime. Here 10 the headless 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 a clairvoyant,
Witch OF Endor. Here is a man who,
whipped in battle, instead Of surrender
ing his sword with dignity, as many
man has done, asks his servant to slay
him, and when that servant declined,
then the giant plants the hilt Of his
sword In the earth. the sharp point
sticking upward, and he throws his
body on 1t and expires-the coward, the
suicidel Here Is Ahitophel, the Machi-
Avelh of olden times, betraying his best
friend, David, In order that he may be-
come prime minister OF Absalom, and
Joining that fellow in his attempt at
rarricide. Not getting what he want
ed by change Of politics, be takes a
short cut out Of a dfsgraceful life into
the suicides eternity. There he is, the
lngratei
Here is Abimelsch. practically sui
eide He is with an army, bombarding
tower, when q woman In the tower
takes q grindstone from ita place and
drops II upon his head, and with what
life he has left in his cracked skull he
commands his armor-hearer: Draw
thy sword and slay me, lest men say
. woman slew me-" There is his post
norton photograph in the Book Of
Samuel.
But the hero of this group is Judaa
Iscarfot. DR.. Donne says he was O
martyr, and we have in our day apollo.
gista for him. AND what wonder, In
fhis day when AVE . book reveal
ing Aaron Burt - pattern Of virtue,
ana this day wuen we uncovey o statue
OF George Sand as the bsnefactrsss Of
literature. and in this day when there
are betrayals Of Christ on the part OK
some OF his pretended apoStles--a be-
trayal so black II makes the infamy Of
Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by
hfA own hand hung up for the execra-