Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-08-18
SELF DESTRUCTION.
"oo rHYsELf NO HARM" GAYS TIE
eRgAr rAesRhAckE- PREACHER

BROOKLYN, Aug l2.-ReV. DE-. Tai
mage who is nov ahnoads has selectet
| us tho subject for todaye sermon
! through tho press the word ''Suioida "
the text being Acts xvt, 81, IS. 'He
drew QUE his sword and would have
killed himself, suppoeing thet the pEis
onors bad been fed but Paul crief
with loud voice. saying. Do thyself TX
harm
Hero Ne % would DO suicide arrested fl
his deadly attempt lie was sheriff.
aud according to the Roman law bail
III himself must suffer tho punishment
Que On escaped prisoner, and if tho pris-
oner breaking jail was sentenced to be
endungeoued for three ca four years then
che sheriff must be endungeoned fm
three q, four years. and if tho prisoner
breaking Jail was TO have suffered capt.
tai Punishment then the sheriff must
suffer capital punishment
The sheriff had received especial
chorso 10 keep sharp lookout for Paul
and Silaa Tho government had NOT had
confidence IN bolts and bars TO keep
safe these two cleTgymeli. about whom
there seemed 60 be something strange
and supernatural
In Oltlen Times.
Sure euough. by miraculous power
they are freq ind the sheriff, waking
out OF sound sleep and supposing these
ministers have pnn away, and knowing
that they were to dio for preaching
Christ, and realizing that ne must there
foro die, rather than go under the ese-
cuttoner's az on the morrow and suffer
public disgrace resolves TO precipitato
dis own deceasa But before tho sharp,
keen, glittortng dagger Of the sheriff
could strike his heart one of the IN
loosened prisoners arrests the blade by
the cosnmand, DO thye{zf 10 harm /"
In oadan time, and where Christianity
had not interfered with 1t sr'cide was
considered honorable alsd sign Of cotlr.
sce. Do,nosthenes poisoned himself
when told that Aloxanthr's ambassador
had demanded the surrender OF the
Athenian orators. Isocratos killed him
self Yather than surrender 10 Philip d
MIacedon Cato. rather thnn submit to
Julius Oesar, took hts own lifo and
after three times his wounds had been
dressed tore them open and perished
Aitthridutes killed himself rather than
submit to Pompey, tho conqueror. Han
pibal destroyed his life By poison from
his ring. considering life unbenrabla
Lycurgus O suicide Brutus suicide
After the disaster OF Moscow Napoleon
always carried with him preparation
Of opium, and one night his servant
heard the ex-emperor arise. put somo-
thing In glass and drink 1t, and soon
after the groans arouse ell tho attend
ants, aud 1t was only through utmost
medical skill he wns rcsuscitatod from
the stupor Of tho opiata
Tho Crime Spreads.
Times hove changed, and yet tho
American conscience needs to be toned
upon the subject OF suicide Have you
seen o paper In the last month that did
sae announce the pas ego 5t ofs,sssss y.
one's own behest? DefaulterR alarmed
ct the !dc0 Of exposure. quit life pre-
cipitately. Men losing large fortunes 60
out Of the world because they cannot
endure earthly existence Frustrated af-
lection. domestic infelictty, dyspeptio
tmpatience- anger. remorsa envy, jeal-
ousy, destitution, nisanthropy. are con-
sidered sufficient causes for Ascending
fro,n this life By paris green. by lauda-
NUN. by belladonna. by Othellos dog
ger. by halter. by leap from the abut-
tnent Of bridge. by firearms Moro
cases Of ''felo de SCI IN the last two
years Of the worlds existence The evil
Is more and more spreading.
A pulpit not long ego expressed some
doubt as to whether there wos really
anything wrong about quitting THE life
when It became disagreeablo, and there
ore found In respectable circles people
Apologize for the crime which Paul In
the text crested shall show you be-
fore get through that suicide Is the
worse Of all crimes, and l shall lift a
warning un1nistakable. But In the carly
part Of this sermon wish to admit that
some OF the best Christians thGt have
eSber lived have committed self destruo-
ton. but always in dementia and not
responsible lhave no more.doubt abont
theig eternal felicity than / ha~o Of the
Christian who dies in his bed In the do
luiuu Of typhoid fnem While the
sbocb Of the catastrophe Is very great l
charge al those who haTe bed Chris
tan friends under cerebral liberation
sop OF the boundaries Of this life TO
base 10 dout& about their happiness
The deer Lord took them right ont Of
their dazed en1 frenHied state into per
feet safety. How Christ feels toward
the Insane you mny know from the kind
way be treated tho denoniao Of Gadara
and the child lunnho, and the potency
with which be hushed the tempests
either Of sea or brain.
Hugh Miller aud COwpe1.
SCOTLAND, tho land prolific Os fnteI-
lectnal gionts, bad noue grapder than
Hugh Milles. greet for science and
great for God He came Of the best high
land blood. and be was descendant Of
Donald Roy, q man eminent for his
piety and the rare gift Of second sight
HIS attatnnlonts, climbing up as he did
from tho quarry and the wall Of the
stonep,eson, drew forth the eetonished
admiration of Buckland and Murchtson,
tho scientists, aud Dr.. Chalmers. the
theoloaan, and beld universities spell
bound while he told them the stofy Of
whet be had seen Of God In the old red
sandstone
Thot man DID moro than any being
that ever lived to show that the God OF
the hills Is the God OF tho Bible. and
be struck hts tuning fork 90 the rocks
Of CToma1ty until ne brought geology
and theology accordant in divine w'os.
ship His two books, entitled "Roos-
prints Of the Creator" and tho '"Testt-
mony Of che Rocks" proclaimed the
banns Of I'D everlasting marriage BE-
lof4 At,