Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-07-16

friend, ard acknowledge that III every
case it is the abilication Of reason or the
teaching OF iniidcli;y, which practically
says, 81 you don't like this life, get
out of it, and yen viii land either i'll
annihilaton, where there are no notes
to pay, 10 prosecutions TO suffer, no
gout 10 torment, CT you viii land where
there will be everything glorious and
nothing to pay for it :" lnfdelity has
always been apologize for self immola-
ton. After Tom Paine's Age Of Rea-
son" was published and widely read
there was marked increase Of self
slaughter.
\ man in London heard Mr. Owen
deliver his inidel lecture on socialism
and went home, sat down and wrote
these words, ".lesus Christ is one of the
weakest characters III history, and the
Bible is the greatest possible deception, +"
and then slot himself David Hume
wrote these words: ''It would he 10
crime for me to divert the File or the
Danube from It's natural bed. Where,
then, can be ihe crime in my diycrting
i few drops of blood from their ordi-
nary channe!:' And having written the
essay hcloaned it to Il friend; the friend
read it, wrote Il letter Of thanks AID adj
miration and shot himself Appendix
TO the same book.
Rousseau. yoitaire, Gibbon, Mon
fajrno ;vrre an.lCactic for self imMola-
zion nt:.lelity puts up 10 bar to people
rushing out FROM this world into the
next They teach rs it does rot make
any difference Ao5T you live here or go
ont Of this world; you will land either
ii al oDlivious nowhere or Il glorious
somewhere and inlidelity holds tho
upper end Of tie rope for the suicide
ind aims tic pistol with which Il man
blows lis brains out and mikes the
st1ychniac for the last swallow Ii in
fidelity could carry the dag and per-
saadc the majority of people in this
country ahat it does hot make amy diff
ference how yeu 90 OFT OF this world
you Will land safely, the Potomac
would be so full Of corpses the boats
would be impeded il their progress, and
the crack Of tie suicides pistol would
be no more alarming than the rumble
Of 4 street CIR.
l haye sometimes heard it discussed
whether tic great dranatist was &
Christian or not. he WIS 4 Christian
In his Inst will and testament ne COM
nentls his soul to God through tine sac
riace OF jesus Christ. know that he
considered appreciation Of L future ex-
istence the mightiesr hindrance to SELF
destruction:
For who would bear the whips and scorns Of
The oppressors wrong. the proud mans cen
The paaes Of dcspised love, the laws delay.
The ilsoicnce Of Office and tho SDr:rS
THAT patient merit or ihe unworthy takes
when he himself might lis quietus make
With 2 bare bndl,in: Who would tI.Gcis bear,
To grunt and sweat under wcarJ life,
But i!at tie dread Of something after death
Tho undiscovered country from whose bourne
40 Traveller returus-puz1.as the viii:
Would God that the coroners would
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Have nothing to do with an infidelity
co cr,,eI so Gsbasing Conc out OF that
i,o5 con'nany into tie contrary of those
vino holiayethc Bible. Benialain Frank
lin vote ..Of dis .!esu; Of Nazareth /
i 800 =. nv ,,ai ~ stem Of morals
-, sr,,.a,d ,hr RELIGION be has given us
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"aa,, ~. !. lii,sl,.f9se . patricl, Henry
tho elsctr;o champion Of liberty. saws,
In. l,eol. ,vn,.rh ali ofl;er books nItt to-
.o,i,cr i fha Riite ns,ji,niill Rash.
2 la,(iisa' l,l'v.i.,lcciet and auatoriist
ef bi, d.. h. ..c,t medical scientist
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