Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-21

Science and Revelation Co. h~ 30
BRooELyN, Oct. IA. A. rl, rahor.
nacle this moruing, the Ia.g. T us Wiz
Talmnga, D.p., took Tor Doh. rE'. Acts
xvi, ~ md 20, "lIe ,.w ,.' Ni7
sword, and wou., have O. r Nm...C.
s%upp0.l... Jbat Jhg pgt a- 'l .u
fed lut pgGi cried with 81 I.HI gH.n,
sayipg. u3 tlyscG no harm, Iue scr
mon wa- rs follows:
Hcp r would he yui.'Ir .rg m
his d,. auruUt I4. r .I
and aas HIIug Go the lHlU l8W, q
lailla U~ll-yiG must suOl.r ,,. wgUl-l-
mcHr Gu t4 u-8n.d nr n.r, .gi II
the pr., Hr NUaliIE illl $780, .a..ag.l
to bc .~n.4Iw.uuol Tor I.un yr tour
years, lOuu tug sheriff wY-J na rrlaa-
geoncl J1r ruryn ar tlug y.tg-. aui II
the Ig,.9a.r breaking Jail was o. have
sutIcro. v.lta1 U]unishmrUa Iapn the
sheriff mnt s.l.lur capital punishment,
the sheriff bad received p~-',r-rl charge
to keep J sharp lcolSoVt l.r lsu, and
Silos. The government had not c14li-
dencr in ur.,s and bars to keep safe lICsc
two cl -gmen, about Whom there
seemed w l' something strange and
Supernatural
sur Hrourh. hy miraculnn, power.
they ago 'rg, and the sagr waking
out Of "a sound sleep, aud supp ing tlc,a
nini-l.rs hgrr run away, All knowing
that yIay were 10 die TO- preaching
Chris, aHI realizing that he must there
fore die, rather than 20 un5 r t'n eyuni-
TONER AK On the morr,y aat suffer
public disgrace, resolves tp prclpituIo
his own d~cCc;sg, But bl'1re tine Sharp.
keen, gliuering dagger uf tue sheriff
could Strike his heart. bUe OF tho ul-
loosened prisoners arrC Is the blade 10y
the command: do thy elf no harm"
In olden time, and where Christianity
had not insrfered W IA it. suicide was
considered honorable I'D a sign Of cour-
age. Demosthcnes poisoned himself
when told that A~leAander's ambassador
had demanded tn surrender Of the
Athenian orators. lsocrates killed him
self rather than surrender 10 Philip of
Maccdoh. Cato, rather thun submit To
Julius Caesar, tool his own life. and after
three times hi, wounds hal been dressed
tore them open and persisted, 1iIthrilates
killed himself rather than submit TO Pom
pey, the conquoror. Hannibal DESTROYED
his life by poison from his ring, cor.
sideriug life u~nbearlbir. Lycurgus Q
suicide, BrUtus a suicide. After the dis
aster Of Moscow. Napoleon always car.
ried with linn a preparation Of opium,
and u. night his servant heard the ex-
emporOr arise. put something ia a glass
and drink IL, aud oOn after the gruaus
aroused all the attendants, aud il was
only through utmost medical skill he was
resuscitatCi from the sIuporo the opiutc.
Times have changed, and yet the
American conscience needs 10 bc toned
up on the subject of suicide. Have YOU
seen a paper in the last month that did
not announce the passage out Of life by
ones W behest: Defaulters, alarmed
at the idea of exposure, quit life precipi-
lately. Men losing large fortunes 60 ont
of the world because they cannot endure
earthly existence. Frustrated affection.
domestic infelicity, dyspeptic Impotence,
anger, remorse, envy, jealousy, destitu-
ton, mEanthropy, are considered sufli-
Client causes for Ascending from this
life by Paris green. by luudauum. by bel.
ladonna, by Othello's dagger, by halter,
by leap from the abutment Of a bridge.
hy firearms. More cases OF felo dc SO in
the last two years than any two years OF
the worlds existence. and more in tho
last month than in any twelve months.
The evil Is more and more spreading.
A pulpit not long ago expressed some
doubt rs 20 whether there was really
anything wrong about quitting this life
when it became diSagrcea6lc, aud there
are found IN respectable circlcs people
apologize for the crime which Paul in
the text arrested. | shall show you be.
fore | get through that suicide j. the
worst of all crimes, and | shall lift a
warning unnistakable. But in the carly
part Of this sermnn | wish 10 admit that
some Of the best Christians that have ever
lived have committed self destruction,
but always in dementia, and not respon-
sible. / have no more doubt about their
eternal felicity than | have of the Chris
tan who dies in his bed In the delirium
of typhoid fever. While the shock Of
the catastrophe is very great. | charge
all those who have had Christian friends
under cercbal alteration step OF the
boundaries of this life, to have no doubt
about their happiness. The dear Lord
took them right out of their dazcd and
frenzied state into perfect safety, How
Christ feels toward the Insane you may
know from the kind way he treated the
demoniac Of Gadara and the child luna
tic, and the potency with which he
hushed tempests either Of sea or brain.
Scotland, the land prolific of i~ntellec-
tual giants, had none grander than Hugh
Miller. Great for science and great for
God. He came Of the best Highland
blood, and was a descendant of Donald
Roy, a man eminent for piety and the
rare gift Of second sight. His attain.
ments, climbing up as he did from the
quarry and the wall Of the stonemason,
drew forth the astonished admiration OF
auckland and Murchison, the scientists,
and DIR. Chalmers, the theologian, and
held universities spellbound while he
told them the story Of what bo had seer
Of God In the old red sandstone.
That man did more than any being
that ever lived TO show that the God Of
the hills is the God OF the Bible, and he
struck his tuning fork on the rocks Of
Cromarty until he brought geology and
theology accordant in divine worship.
His two hooks. entitled tEOotDrints of