The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-08-18
LEROY FARMER,
Ireland & Mountjoy's old stand
THE EVIL OF SUICIDE.
DR.. Talmage Discouroes on It's
Spread and the Cause.
Inndelity and AGnosticism to Biamo-Ths
Fate Of the Man Who Deliberately
Snaps theB Bond His
BODY and His Soul.

Snaps the Bond Between His
body and His Soul.
The latest sermon given out through
the press by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
was upon the subject of Suicide" the
text being from Acts xvi, 27-2s: He
drew out his sword and would have
killed himself, supposing that the
prisoners had been fed. But Paul cried
with q loud voice, saying: Do myself
no harm" The sermon Is as follows:
Here is q would-be suicide arrested
in his deadly attempt. He was a sher-
If, and, according to the Roman law, a
bailiff himself must suffer the punish
ment due an escaped prisoner; and if
the prisoner breaking Jail was SEN
fenced to be endungeoned for three or
four years, then the sheriff must be
endungeoned for three or four years;
and II the prisoner breaking jail was
to have suffered capital punishment,
then the sheriff must suffer capital
punishment.
The sheriff had received especial
charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul
and Silas. The government had not
had confidence in bolts and bars to
keep safe these two clergymen, about
whom there seemed to be something
strange and supernatural.
Sure enough, by miraculous power,
they are free, and the sheriff, waking
out Of q sound sleep, and supposing
these ministers have run away, and
knowing that they were to die for
preaching Christ, and realizing that he
must therefore die, rather than go I'M
der the executioner's AK on the morrow,
and suffer public disgrace, resolves to
precipitate his own decease. But be-
fore the sharp, keen, glittering dagger
of the sheriff could strike his heart, one
Of the u~nloosened prisoners arrests the
blade by the command: do myself
no harm"
In olden time, and where Christian
ity had not interfered with 1t, suicide
was considered honorable and a sign
Of courage. Demosthenes poisoned
himself when told hat Alexander's
ambassador had demanded the sur
render Of the Athenian orators.
socrates killed himself rather than
surrender to Philip Of Macedon. Cato,
rather than submit to julius Cesar,
took his own life, and after three times
his wounds had been dressed, tore
them open and perished. Mithridates
killed himself rather than submit to
Pompey, the c~onqueror. Hannibal de-
stroyed his life by poison from his
ring, considering life unbearable. Ly-
curgus q suicide, Brutus q suicide.
After the disaster of Moscow Napoleon
always carried with him q preparation
of opium, and n night his servant
heard the ex-emperor arise. put some
thing in a glass and drink it, and soon
after the groans aroused all the attend
ants, and it was only through utmost
medical skill he was resuscitated from
the stupor Of the opiate.
Times have changed, and yet the
American conscience needs to be toned
mp ON the subject of suicide. Have
you seen Q paper in the last month that
did not announce the passage out Of
life by ones own behest? Defaulters,
alarmed at the idea Of exposure, quit
life precipitately. Men losing large
fortunes 60 out Of the world because
they cannot endure earthly existence.
A pulpit not long ago expressed some
doubt ss to whether there was really
anything wrong about quitting this
life when II became disagreeable, and
there are found in respectable circles
people ~apologetic for the crime which
Paul in the text arrested. shall show
You before ! get through that suicide
IL the worst Of all crimes, and l shall
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