Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-12
the mightiest OF heaven.

hymnososy. In hypochondria LIE resolv.
cd to take his own life and rode to the
river Thames, but found 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 him
self to the ceiling, but the rope broke.
No wonder that when God mercifully
delivered him from that awful dementia
he sat down and wrote that other hymn
just as melnOrable:
God moves in mysterious way
His wonders to perform.
Ee plants his footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.
Blind unbelef is sure to err
And scan his work in vain.
God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.
While we make this merciful and
righteous allowance In regard to those
who were plunged into mental iucoher-
ence | declare that the man who in the
use of his reason by his own act snaps
the bond between his body and his soul
goes straight into perdition. Shall 1
prove it? Revelation xxi, s, "Murder-
crs shall have their part in the lake
which burneth with fire and brim-
stone" Revelation xii, Is, Without
are dogs and sorcerers and whoremon-
gers and murderers. ~ You do not be-
lcve the New Testament? Then per-
haps you believe the Ten Command
ments, Thou shalt not kill" Do you
say that all these passages refer to the
taking Of the life Of others? Then ask
you if you are not as responsible for
your own life as for the life of others?
God gave you special trust in life and
made you the custodian Of your life,
and he made you the custodian Of no
other life, He gave you as weapons
with which to defend it two arms to
strike back assailants, two eyes to watch
for invasion and natural love Of life
which ought ever to be on the alert.
/ Assassination Of others is mild crime
( compared with the assassination of your
self, because in the latter case it is
treachery to an especial trust. 1t is the
surrender Of a castle you were especial
ly appointed to keep. 1t is treason to a
natural law, and it is treason to God
added to ordinary murder.
A Biblical Rogues' Gallery.
To show how God in the Bible looked
upon this crime l point you to the
rogues' picture gallery i'll some parts Of
the Bible, the pictures of the people
who have committed this unnatural
crime Here is the headless trunk OF
Saul Oh the walls of Bathshan. Here
is the man who chased little David-1C
feet in stature chasing 4. Here is the
man who consulted a clairvoyant, witch
of Endor Here is a man who, whipped
in battle, instead of surrendering his
sword with dignity, as many man has
done, asks his servant to Stay him, and
when that servant declined then the
giant plants the hilt of his sword in the
Garth, the sharp point sticking upward
and he throws his body on it and eX
pires-thc coward, the suicide! Here i.
Ahitophel the Machiavelli Of Older
times. letraying his best friend, David
in order that he may become prime
minister of Absalom and joining tina
fellow in his attempt at parricide. No
getting what he wanted by change O.
politics, he takes short cut out OF {
disgraceful life into the suicides eter
nifty. There he is, the migrate!
Here is Abimelech, practically sui
eide. He is with an army bombardinl
a tower, when woman in the towe
takes grindstone from its place an(
drops it upon his head and with wha
life he has left in his cracked skull hi
, commands his armor bearer, DRAW tn.
sword and STAY ne lest men say WON
an slew me!' There is his post morten
PHOTOGRAPH in the book of Samuel.
But the hero of this group is .Juda
Iscariot. DR.. Dome says he was a mar
tyr. and we Lave in our day apologist
for him. And what wonder in this da
when we have Il book revealing Aaro
Burr as pattern of virtue and this Ga
when we uncover statue OF Georg
Sand as the benefactress of literatur
and in this Gag when there are betrayal
I Of Christ On me part OF some OF his pr,
, tended apostles, betrayal SO black
makes the infany of Judas lscari>
white Yet this man, by his own hano
+ hung up for the eXecratlon OF all ages
, ! Judas IscaTiut.
All the good men and women Of tn
Eille left to uod the decision Of thel
earthly terminus, and they could hav
, said with ,Jon, who had a right to cob
, nit suicide if any man ever had, whs
, with his destroyed property and hi
, body all att.,Me with insuiferable cal
;, buncles and everything gone from H.
+ home cXce.,. the chief curse OF It,
pestiferousN g and four garrulous PEE
1le peltllr SIN with c0n-fortless tai
:. tnile he I'll. n Il heap of ashes scratch
, tly his scaia with Il piece Of broke
=, pottclv, vet ,l ing ont in triumph, "a
the days Of my appointed time Will
wait till my change comes
), Notwithstanding the Bible is again
4 this evil and the aversion which 1t
ntos Nv the ly.tAscMe and CHASTITY So
q taclc CT tho. who have hurled thti
:, f, Ives out ut ilir, and notwlthstandl,
. Christianity Is against 1t and the arg
:. mcuts aud the useful lives and the illu
. trious DEATHS Of its disciples, it is fa'
t alarninsly patent that suicide is on tt
e increase. What is the cause? chars
d upon inhdolity and asnosticlsm tn
:. whole thing. If there be no hereatt'
j. or if that hereafter be Llissful wltho'
u reference to hgw We live and how v
n die. why not move hack the toldlr
Ii doors between this world and the mex
+ And when our existence here h2com