Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-07
IS DEATH PAINFULLY
Evidence That the Terrors Of Dfssolutioa
Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.

Evidence That the Terrors Of D1ssolution
Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.
Many people, through fear OF death, are
all their lives subject to bondage. The
questions, How shall we die' When shall
we dies and where shall we die? are con-
tinually worrying them. Indeed there
have been several suicides caused by the
haunting eerror OF death. The thought OF
i5 made their lives insup upportabie, and
they killed themselves in order to know
the worst, says q writer IN The Sunday
Magazine.
And yet it is quite possible that in re-
spect to the physical sensation OF dying
We resemble Don Quixote when he hung
by his wrist from the stable window and
imagined that tremendous abyss yawned
beneath his feet. Fate, in the character
Of Maritornes, cuts the throng with light
some laughter, and the gallant gentleman
falls-four inches.
When Louis XIV lay dying, "Why weep
your he asked those who surrounded his
deathbed. ibid you think would live
foreverS" Then after pause, II thought
dying had been harder"
DR. Hunter was another who was great
H. surprised by his experience Of dying.
His last words were, "If I had strength
to hold a pen l would write down how
easy and pleasant thing it is to die"
A charming actress who had been twice
almost drowned told q friend that dying
was the incest sensation that she knew.
The late Archbishop Of Canterbury as
his "agony" befell quietly remarked, ut
is really nothing much after all. I"
When death is bitter, it is SO, as a gen.
eral rule, far more by reason OF anxiety
and remorss than from physical causes.
A man, for instance, can scarcely die east
ly If he Is leaving a widow and family for
whom provision has not been made. The
medical man who attended Oliver Gold
smith in his last hour asked him II there
was anything on his mind, as he could
not account for his temperature being SO
high.
The poet admitted that there was. Debt
was upon his mind. TO some 1t is riches
and not poverty that renders death pain
full. When Garrick showed to DIR. John
son his palatial residence, tho latter said,
"Ah, David these are things that make
death terrible"
John Wesley was once asked by lady:
"Supposc you knew that you were going
to die at II O'Clock tomorrow night. How
would you spend the intervening timer
How, madam" he replied. Why,
Just as intend to spend it now. l should
preach this night ut Gloucester and again
at 8 tomorrow morning. After that
should ride to Tewksbury, preach in the
afternoon and meet the societies in the
evening. / should then return to my
friend Martin house, who expects to en-
tortain me, converse and pray with his
family as usual, retire to my bed at 10
O'Clock, commend myself to my heavenly
Father, lie down to rest and wake up in
glory"
This was tho feeling which enabled the
American general, Stonewall Jackson, to
dio as he did. When told that he had
only about two hours to live, he answered
VERY good. 1t is all right. Order A. p.
Hill to prepare for action. Pass the in
fantry to the front rapidly. Tell Major
HAWKS Presently smile of inoffable
sweetness spread itself over his pale face,
and he said quietly and with an express
sion of relief, LET us cross over the river
and rest under tho shade Of tho trees"