The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-25
COWARDLY ACT.
on NY THE REV. rALMAoE
.,ia and Disbelief the Only
les of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Iu,tv the Only Safeguard
Against the Crime.

"ff dfeW OUT nus SUVTu, uWu uVu."
Killed. himself, supposing that the
Srs had been fled. But PdM cried
loud roice, s1Wny. DO MyseD no
!, Acts xvi, 2I-%
|is n would-be suicide arrested In his
attempt He was a sheriff, and &C.
10 the Roman law, bailiff himself
kfrer the punishment due an escaped
and n the prisoner breaking jail
htenced TO be endungeoned for three
wears. then the sheriff must be
roned for three or four years; and IL
.oner breaking Jail was TO have
capital punishment, then the sheriff
kfrer capital punishment The sheriff
|pived especial charge to keep sharp
for Paul and Silas. The govern
Iii not had confidence in bolts and
keep safe these two clergymen, about
3hero seemed to be something strange
Sernatural.
Enough. by miraculous power, they
4, and the sheriff. waking out of a
kleep, aud supposing these ministers
IN away. and knowing that they were
Tor preaching Christ, and realizing
must therefore die, rather than go
|he executioner's axe on the morrow.
fer public disgrace, resolves TO pro.
his own deceuse. But before the
teen. glittering dagger of the sheriff
&rike his heart. one OF the unloosened
Is arrests the blade by the command:
fself no harm.n
EN- time, and where Christianity had
rfered with IL, suicide was considered
Die and n sign of courage. Demos.
boisoned himself when told that Alex
ambassador had demanded the sur
of the Athenian orators. Isocrates
bimself rather than surrender TO
bf Macedon. Cato. rather than sub
Julius Caesar, took his own life,
Der three times his wounds had
dressed tore them open and per-
Mithridates killed himself rather
bmit to Ponipey, the conlueror. Han.
etroyed his life by poison from his
nsidering life unbearable Lycurgus
Brutus suicide. After the. .disas.
oscow, Napoleon always carried with
feparation of opium, and one night
hnt heard the ex-Emperor arise, put
hg in glass and drink it, and soon
groans aroused all the attendants,
was only through utmost medical
as resuscitated from the stupor of
he.
have changed. and yet the American
zee needs to be toned up on the sub
|uicide. Have you seen paper in the
th that did not announce the passage
IL by ones own behestl Defaulters,
at the idea of exposure, quit life
etely. Men losing large fortunes go
be world because they cannot endure
existence. Frustrated affection,
infelicity, domestic impatience,
emorse, envy, jealousy, destitution,
ropy, are considered sufficient causes
pnding from this life by Pario green,
anum, by belladonna, 10y Othellos
by halter, by leap from the abut-
a bridge, by firearms. More cases
Sc in the last two years than any
s OF the worlds existence, and more
y month than in any twelve months.
more and more spreading.
it not long ago expressed some doubt
hether there was really anything
bout quitting this life when it became
ble, and there are found in respect
lies people apologetic for the crime
hul in the text arrested. shall
before get through that suicide
orst OF all crimes, and shall lift n
n Hpistakable But In the early part
S3srnuf 1 wish TO admit that some
Sst Christians that have ever lived
limited self-destuction. hut always
tia, and not responsible. | have no
bt about their eternal felicity than
the Christian who dies in his bed
lelirium of typhoid fever. While
OF the catastrophe is very great,
all those who have had Christ
bds under cerebal alteration step
pundaries of this life, to have no
put their happiness. The dear Lord
b right out of their dazed and fren-
into perfect safety. How Christ
ard the insane you NAV know from
way He treated the demoniac of Ga.
the child lunatic, and the potency
fch he hushed tempests either OF sea
A.
u' .hc ianu promo OF intellectual
iu iicho srander than hugh Miller.
sciehce ana great Tor God. Ho
tne sest highiand blood, and was
ho oi bohaiu Roy, man eminent
anu tile rare glit or second sight.
hnehts. climoing up as he did from
~ ana the wall or the stonemason,
tn ,he astohished admiration OF Buck
N'ss -
lhe theoloSian, and held universe
pouhu "hi'e ne Told them the story
he had seen OF God in the old red
,
i,an Iiu more than any being that
% SNOW that the Tod or the hills is
VI the bioie, ana he struck his tun-
oh the ROCKS OF Cromarty until he
eeo,ogy ana theology accordant in
orship ms two books, entitled
nus OF the creator and the "Testi-
,he hocks, proclaimed the banns of
uslihG marriage between genu-
nce ana revelation. On this
p3ok ne toiled day and night
could NOT sleep. and his brain gave
ne was found dead with a revolver
tie, the cruel instrument having had
ets- one for him nnd the other FOR
kmith who M the coronar,s ;n,uss,
~ unS, ieii uead; nave you
y, que cotatiiicatioho OF hngh Miller,
nor oriin mad ceased throbb ng that
gut IN his study at Portobclloi
he mlghtiest OF earth, among the
" heaven
nouoteu tne plety OF William Cow
n cIn,ou 81 ynII, .nUso % .nIee grea, hymns, hymns
bindronaos" ""n a,n VIII wiz. ;, "Vi ,.i,, hao