Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-01-19
IS DEATH PAlNFULl
Evidence That the Terrors OF Dissolution
Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

] Have Been Greatly EAabsSI"'o'
Many people, through fear of death, arc
! all their lives subject to bondage Inc
questions. How shall we diel When shall
we die? and where shall we die? are con
tinually worrying them. Indeed there
| have been several suicides caused by the
! haunting terror of death. The thought OF
# made their lives insuppOrtable, ana
they killed themselves in order to know
/ tho worst, says writer in The sunday
! Magazine.
And vet it is quite possible that in re-
epect to the physical sensation ot dying
we resemble Don Quixote when he hung
! by his wrist from the stable window ana
! imagined that tremendous abyss yaWhed
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 NV lay dying "Why weep
you?" he asked those who surrounded his
deathbpd Did you think would i've
forever?' Then after pause, Il thought
dying had been harder.
Dr. Hunter was another who was great
~ surprised by his experience of dying.
His last words were. IF l had strength
to hold Il pen | would write down how
easy and pleasant thing it is to die.
4 charming actress who had been twice
almost drowned told u friend that dying
was the incest sensation that she knew.
The late Archbishop Of Canterbury rs
his "agony' befeIl quietly remarked, 1t
is really nothing much after all. "
When death is bitter, it is so, as a gen
eral rule, far more by reason of anxiety
and remorsc than from physical causes.
A man. for instance, can scarcely die easl-
ly if he is leaving Il 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, the latter said,
All, David, these are things that make
death terrible.
John Wesley was once asked by a lady:
Suppose you knew that you were going
to die at II O'Clock tomorrow night. How
would you spend the intervening timer
How, MADAME he replied. Why,
just as | intend to spend it now. l should
preach this night at Gloucester and again
at 5 tomorrow morning After that l
should ride to TeWksbury, preach in tho
afternoon and meet the societies in the
evening. l should then return to my
friend Martin S house. who expects to en-
terrain 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 rcsG and wake up in
glory"
This was the feeling which enabled tho
American general, Stonewall Jackson, to
die 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 a smile of inetfable
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 the shade of the trees"