Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-19
SELF MORDER.
It's a Fact Alarmiug|y Patent that
thesNumbsr of Suicides is
on the Increase.
And ~ DsWIst TsEmsgc Charges the
,.ssFssRhels Thing Upon InfidsIiiy
~ and Agpesdeism.
Some CT the Reasons Why People Seek TO
Take Their Own Lives-s Few Ins:au-
ses of Their attempts.
spec,sl TO the Gazette,

| Special to the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Oct. l4.-At the
Tabernacle this morning, the Rev. T
Dewitt Talmage, ID, took for his tex.
Acts ca. II, verses snd 8. "He drew
ont his sword, and would hzve killed
himself, supposirg that the prisoners had
been fed. But Psul cried with p loud
voice, saying, Do myself no hahn" The
sermon Has rs f0liows:
| Here lie = would be suicide arrested n
his deadly attempt. He Wss s sheriff
and acc ordipg 10 the Il IMAM laTT, s baiiif
himself must suffer the punishment due
IN escaped prisoner; and If the prisoner
| b-eskiDg jan was sentenced 20 be en-
duugenned for three Or fur years, then
the sherif must be endungeoned for three
or four yeerr; aod II the prisoner bTe.k-
iDg / Ill va 30 have ct # red c"pltsl pun
| isEnent, thep the sGerif must suffe!
capital purisAnsnt Inc sheriff had re-
celyed especial chs-gs 80 keep shArE
| looka u: for Pau! snd S!lss. The govern
ment ned not had conf isnce in bolts end
ears 20 keep este these two cieEgymen,
about whom there seemed to be some
thing strange and supernatural
Sure enough, By miraculous power,
| they are f-ee, and the sheriff, waking cut
CT 2 sound sleep, and supposiEg these
ministers have run away, snd kno WING
that they were 30 die for preschip &
Christ, and realizing that he must there
fore die, ratGer tnsn 60 uoder the execu
| TONER'S IKE On the morrow sld suffer
pubic elseIace, resolves to precipi-
Gr-t hot
| the nap, Keen, 2lIttering dagger
Of the sherif could strike hia
heart, one Of the unloosensd prisoners ar
thyset NO harm"
had not interiered with II, suicide was
considered honorable and
SIGN CT COURAGE.
Demcstheres poisoned himself when
told that Alsxsndst's ambassador hsd de-
handed the surrender OF the Armenian
orators. Isocra.es killed himself rather
than surrender 80 Philip OF Macedon.
| Cato, rather than euomis 10 JuIius CO 'ar,
took his own lie, and after three times
his wounds mad been dressed tore them
open ard pe-ished. MIthridste5 killed
himself rather than submit 30 Pompey,
the corqleror. H.nnibal destroyed his
| life by poison from his riog, considering
life undesirable. Lycurgus suicide, B U
tus suicide. After TIE disaster of Mos
COW, Napoleoa-slways carried With him &
preparation Of apIuu, sad one nigh. his
| servant heard tee ex-emperor arise, put
something in gless and cgiEk Il, sac
coon after the groans stoused ell tha st.
| tandsnts, and II was only thrCu ii utno est
| kin q TO 2 : fTn-S 4 =
s.upor o! the cpi.te. =.
Times have changed, ard yeE fhe A1aeri
can conscience needs 30 be toned 40 on
Inc subject CT suicide. HAYS you deem s
paper in IRE last month that. Cid not IA
Acunce The passage out CT life bY ones
own behsel? DeIaul,ers, ALARMED at tie
idea OF exposure, gait Ike precipita.ely,
Een losing large fortunes So
out OF the world because -tba5
camel endure earthly existence. s&Tas-
!Fated affsc i0T, domestic latelicisy, .dys.
psptic impstIe0Ce, anger, remorse, envy,
jealousy, destjIUtion, mtsanthSopy, are
| considered sufficient Cause fer sosc0Rd
ing from This lie by PARIS greer, By lsud-
snuT, by oelladonna, oy 0ahellJ's dag
ger, py hslter, By lesp from the soutmeEt
Of q bridge, By firearms. More CAGES
fslo de ee ~ tne lsss two yesrs Than any
TWO years Of the W0rii's existence, anu
more ia the lgst month than in sDy twelve
months. The Evil il more and more
spreading.
pulpit not lopg ago expressed some
doubt as 70 whether there VISA really
sn7thing wrong soous quitting this life
when
IT BECAME DIsAGREEABLE,
SDd there are found N respectable circles
people apologize for the crime which
Paul II the text arrested. | shall show
you before get through that suicide il
the worst Of ell CHIMES, AID | shall If S
warning urmistskable. But In the early
psrt of this sermon wish to admit thst
soma Of the best Christians that have ever
lived have committed ser-testruc.ion,
but always in dementis, and net respon
siole. nave no more doubt OF tncir
eternal felicity than l have Of the Chris
tian who dies in mig bed in the Gelirium
OF typhoid fever. While the shock of the
catastrophe is very great, l charge all
those who have had Christian friends
under carebsl alteration step off the
boundaries Of this life, 10 have no doubt
about their happiness. The dear Lord
took them right out of their dezed and
frepzied ststs into perfect safety. How
Christ feels toward the inssne you may
know from the kind way ne treated the
cemoniac CT Gadars and this child luna.
tic, and the potency with which he
hushed tempests either tf sea or brain.
Scotland, the lana prolific Of intellect
uGl glsuts, mad none grsnoer than Hugh
Miller. Great for science and great f3r
God. He came Of the best, Highland
blood, and was & descendant Of Donald
Roy, man eminent for piety snd the
rare gift of seccnd-sight. His attain.
ments, climbing mp as he did from the
eusrry and the wall of the s.onemAson,
Grew forth the aston!shed admiration OF
Bucklsnd sad MuEchisop, the scientists,
Snd Dr. Clslmere, the theologian, sDd
held universities spellbound while he TOLD
them ITEM the story Of Whist he had seer
Ct God in the old red sandstone.
That man did more than Euy being thsi
j ever lived to shoT that the God Of the
hills is the God Of the Bible, and he
I struck his tuning fork On the
rocks of Cromsrty until be
brought geology and theology &C.
ccrdsnt In divine worship. His two
books, entitled Footprints OF the Gre
stor" snd the Testimony Of the Rocks"
pro laimed the bsuns Of en everlasting
marriage between genuine
$50 SCIENCE AND REVELATION.
IL ON this latter book he toiled day and
7 night through love OF nature and love OF
Cos, until he could not sleep, and his
brain gave way, and he wss found dead
with revolver by his side, the cruel in
strument having had two bullets-one for
hin and the otaer for the sunsnith who
| AZ the cNrouerss i-nuact uca fv.rinir ,