Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-03-07
The Terror of Death.

Many people. through fear of death. are
all their lives subject to bandage, writes Rev.
4. s. Hardy in the Sunday Magazine. The
question; How shall we die? When shall
we dieY and where shall we die? are continu-
ally worrying them. Indeed, there have
been several suicides caused by this haunting
terror OF death. The thought of it made
tnelr lives insupportable, and they killed
themselves IN order to know the worst,
And yet it is quite possible that in respect
to the physical sensation of dying we resem
BILE Dou Quixote, when he hung by his wrist
from the stable window and imagined that a
terrible abyss yawned at his feet; fate, IN the
character of Naritornes. cut the thong with
lightsome laughter and the gallant gentle
man falls-four inches.
When Louis XIV lay dying. "Why weep
your he asked those who surrounded his
deathbed. "Did you think should live for
ever?" Then, after pause: Il thought
dying had been harder" DR.. Hunt Z was
another who was agreeably surprised by his
experience of dying. His last words we're:
IF had strength to hold pen would write
down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to
DO die." A charming actress who had been
twice almost drowned told a friend that dy-
ing was the incest sensation that she knew.
The late archbishop of Canterbury, as his
agony" befell quietly remarked: ait is
man said TO Socrates: "The Athenians
have condemned you to DEATH" "And ma.
ture," he replied, "has condemned Them"
BY the ancient Greeks death was considered
simply as destroyer. To them it was the
last and most bitter of foes. Achilles. IN
Hades says to Odysseus: May, speak not
comfortably to me of death. Rather would
live upon the earth the hireling of another,
than bear sway over all the dead that are no
more."
When death is bitter it is so. as a general
rule, for more by reason of anxiety and re.
morse than from physical causes. A man,
Tor instance, can scarcely die easily if he is
leaving widow and family for whom pro-
vision has not been made. The medical
men who attended Oliver Goldsmith in his
last hour asked him if there was anything
on MS mind, as he could not account for his
temperature being so high. The poet ad-
mitted that there was. Debt was upon his
MIND. 10 some it is riches. and not poverty,
showed to DR.. johnson his palatial re sIdence
the latter said: "Ah, David, these are things
that make death terrible.',
go Sohn wesley was once asked by a lady:
suppose you knew that you were to die at
WE'VE O'Clock tomorrow night, how would
you spend the intervening timer" "How,
madam!' he replied; why just as | intend
TO spend it now. should preach at Glou.
cester, and again at five tomorrow morning.
After that should ride to Tewksbury, preach
IN the afternoon and meet the societies in
the evening. should then repair to Friend
Martins house, who expects to entertain me
converse and pray with the family as usual,
retire to my bed at ten O'Clock. commend
myself to my Heavenly Father, lie down to
rest and wake up in glory"
lhls was the feeling which enabled the
American, General Stonewall jackson, to
die as he did. When told he had only two
hours to live, he answered: Every good; it
IS all right. Order A. P. Hill to prepare for
action. Pass the infantry to the front rapid.
ly. Tell Major Hawks" Presently smile
OF lnetfable sweetness spread itself over his
face, and he said, quietly and with an EXPIRE s.
sion OF relief: 'Let US cross over the river
and rest under the shade of the trees"