Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-07-16

for all and death great finale. His
idealism would do for his fellow men
as that millionaire capitalist recently
did for his friends. He provided, by
last will and testament, that "no serv-
ice Of religious character be held at
his grave; that n special train Of Pull
mans be chartered to take his remains
from Louisville to Cincinnati to be Gre
mated; that the buffet cars be well
stocked with good things to eat and
drink; that while bis remains are being
cremated an orchestra render pro-
gramme Of popular and select music,
and that when an intcrmission is reach
ed the friends ask the members of the
orchestra to drink TO the dead mans
memory" That is the consistent out
come of the total humiliation belief.
The earnest Christian disciple says,
Life is not n Joke; death is not n
finale" Life is an opportunity for do
Ing good and for struggling against
evil. Because the good as we'll as the
evil lives on for ever and ever we
ought to put ourselves in the hands Of
the Almighty, who arrangcs our lot for
u.s. and say, as did Job, "All the days of
my appointed time will wait till my
change come"
The unbeliever in the gospel says: "If
there Is hell 1t Is to be found this side
and not the other side Of the grave.
When things go wrong the best way
to escape suffering is to snap the silver
cord Of human life and silence the
beating heart" The Christian disciple
says: "Sanctifcd troubles are n spir-
itual means by the grace of God for
raising an immortal soul on and up.
Unsanctified troubles are the inexora-
bic means Of dragging sinful de-
flant soul on and forever down. He
that is unjust let him he unjust still.
and he which is filthy let him be filthy
still, and he that is righteous let him
be righteous still and he that is holy let
him he holy still" Such are tho two OK.
tremes-thc tencts of the believers in
total annihilatio at the brink of the
grave and those Of the earnest disciple
Of Jesus Christ. Do you wonder that
l charge the hideous monsters athe-
ism, agnosticism and infidelity with
being the chief causes Of this accurscd
suicidal epidemic? Do you wonder
that look to the gospel Of Jesus Christ
to stay the hand of self immolaton
Will you not. by buckling on the gospel
armor, prepare to wage incessant war
against the insidious demons who
blight the lives Of your fellow mon by
robbing them of peace, JOY and faith
and leaving them so despoiled and i'm
FILTERED that they prefer death to life?
False Standards of Happiness.
False standards for happiness can
be catalogued among the frequent pro-
life causes Of the suicidal sin. They
are the decoying mirages which tempt
the weary life's traveller to lose himself
In the midst of Sahara of sand. They
are the deceitful stars. twinklng their
benedctions over affairs of silver and
Of gold and of fame, which suddenly
60 out and leave the dcvotees worship
Ing in total darkness. They are the
musical voices of the sirens singing
their sweetest songs when Turing their
victims on to fatal shipwreck.
In the false standards of happiness
can be found the origin of the disap-
pointments which SO often end in sui
eide. Men do not first seek wealth or
fame to possess those treasures, as n
miser might hoard up his gold They de
sire the merchant princes palace and
the kings throne because they foolish
~ think that happiness is COY maiden
who loves to robe herself in silks and
to have her throat and fingers aglttcr
with precious jewels, and therefore
they can the more readily find her In
the rich mans mansion than in the
poor mans hut. If they cannot have
wealth or fame or worldly honor Is
about TO be taken away from them
then they feel they cannot have happi
ness Then, with one pull of the pts
tolls trigger, they fling away theil
blighted lives, as did the late "cottor
king" of Louisiana, who lost his for
tune in Wall street, or as did the late
Sir Hector Macdonald of the British
army, who killed himself to avoid fac
ing the publicity of a court martial anf
disgraceful dismissal from the kings
service.
Source of True Happiness.
Now, my friends, the human beinl
who commits suicide merely because
, the golden breasted oriole of wealth
, has plumcd her wings and disappeared
from sight or because the iconoclast o.
, trouble has shattered the idol of fame
is doing fools business. Happiness
true happiness, the happiness TO
which we all long and for which some
, of us are seeking, is not dependent up
, on outside surroundings, but upon thu
, condition of the heart Some of TIT
, most unhappy human beings hav,
been the so called worldly successful
, men. Did all the unlimited fnancia
wealth of Nathan Rothschild max
I him happy? For many years he wa
, the universally recognized fnancia
, king of Europe. In single day h
= made over 100000. At the battl
. Of Waterloo he was an anxious specta
! tor. AS soon as that battle was dc
cided he put spurs to his horse an
' rode like the wind toward Londor
:, He had n relay Of horses awaitin
him and a special boat chartered t
a take him across the channel Their
; next morning, he appeared upon tn
London Exchange and circulated tn
: report that Wellington was defeated
a Securities tumbled. His brokers bough
2 them up by the millions of dollars
O worth. The following day dispatche
:. from Wellington announced that M