Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-27

B~KoOKIYN, Oct. 1A.-Atthc Tabernacle
this morning The Rev. 7. Dewitt Tai
mage, ID, took for his text, lcts CD.
1G, verses 10 and 20. He drew out hs
sword, and woASd have killed himself,
s~upposing that The prisoner had fed. But
Paul cried witb& loud voice, saying DO
myself no harn." The sermon was as
follows:
Here ia a w0lld-be suicide arrested in
his deadly attsnpt. He was l. sheriff.
and according 20 the Roman law, q hailitT
himself must suffer the punishment due
an escaped prisoner; and if thu prisoner
breaking ialt was sentenced TO be en-
dungeon"d for three or four yeG}s, then
the sheriff must be eudungeOned fer three
or f2u: years; and ii the prisoner brcak.
ING jall was 10 AaYe suffered capital pun
ishmcnt. then the sheriff mus suffer
capital punishment. The sheTli had re-
ceiyed especial charge to keep a sharp
lookout for Paul aEo Siias. Che govern
mcnt had not confidence il bolts ald bars
10 keep safe these two clergymen, about
vtom fbnr. seemed fo ha conc,Lior
stronoe and s-ln.ruarural
SnTn o,orna IN uirarulons nc,ya~
they ar, free, ana the sheriff, waking ont
or = er,rJ 4lron opl snunD.ir~ iAcsa
miuistr,e have nm away spa Loow,rr
tbsf th.y -yprn 10 din for pro9rhinr
Chris ana ra.lizinr that he n,iat there.
fore die rather ,bln 90 upaor the OK
ccutioncr's axe on The morrow and sui. r.
public disgrace. rc-olyos 10 procinitaie his
own d~eceose. Bat before the sharp,
keen. glttcring dagger Of thc sheriff
could strike his heart, II OF the uplooa-
encd pris}ucls arrests the blade by the
comman7: DO thyscit no harm.
I'm olden time, and wheye Christianity
had not IHteIIcrcG win II, suicide was
considered honorable and q sign g corr
age. D-cmcalhencs poisoned himself wien
told that AleXandcr'9 ambassador had de-
manded the surrender OF the Athepian
orators. socrates Killed himself rather
than surrender 10 lhli!ip 81 MaCedon
CSto, rather hSn submit 60 julius Caesar,
took his own life, and after three times
his wounds had been dressed tore them
open and persisted. MithridGtes killed
himself rather than submit 10 PomDey.
the Conguero". Hannibal destroyed his
life by poison from his ring, considering
life ~uuhaarc5le. Lycurgus a suicide,
Riutus Il suicide. After Tue disaster Of
Moscow, Napoleon always carried with
him y preparation Of opium, and one
night mis- servan, heard the cX-empcr0r
arise, pat something in a glass aud drink
it. and soon after the grOGns aroused al
the attendants, and il was 0n}y THROUGH
utmost medical skill be was resuscitated
from The s.upsr Of the oDipie.
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