Arizona silver belt., 1895-02-09
THE TERROR OF DEATH.
It Is Not Present with Everyone
 Who Dies.
Testimony Which Goes to Prove That Many View with Unconcern the Ap- proRch of Dissolution-Dylng
 Words of Noted Men.

Many people, through fear of death, are all their lives subject to bondage, writes Rev. E. ]. Hardy in the SunGsy Magazine. The questions How sha.. we die? When shall we die? and where shall we die? are continually worrying them. Indeed, there have been several suicides caused by this haunting terror of death. The thought of it made their 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 resemble Don QuiXote, when he hung by his wrist from the stable window and imagined that terrible abyss yawned at his feet; fate, in the character of Mari tornes, cuts the thong with lightsome laughter and the gallant gentleman falls-four inches
 When Louis XIV. lay dying: Why weep you?" he asked those who sur rounded his deathbed Did you think 1 should live forever?" Then, after a pause T thought dying had been harder Dr. Hunter was another who was agreeably surprised by his experi- ence of dying. His last words were: If I had strength to hold pen would write down how easy and pleasant thing it is to die. A charming actress who had been twice almost drowned told friend that dying vas the incest sensation that she knew The late archbishop of Canterbury, as his agony befell, quietly remarked; Ut is really nothing much after all"
 A man said to Socrates: "The Athe- nians have condemned you to death. And nature, he replied, has con demned them By the ancient Greeks death was considered simply as a de- stroycr. To them it was the last and most bitter of foes. Achilles in Hades says to Odysseus; Nay, speak not com fortably Co 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, far more by reason of anxiety and rcmorse than from physical causes. A man, for instance, can scarcely die easily if he is leaving widow and family for whom provision has not been made The medical men who attended Oliver Gold smith in his last hour asked him if 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 it is riches, and not poverty. that renders death painful When Garrick showed to Dr. Johnson his pala- tial residence the latter said: An, David, these are the things that make death terrible
 John Wesley was once asked by a lady: Suppose you knew that you were to die at twelve o'clock tomorrow night, how would you spend the inter yening timer" How, madam?" he re- piled; why, just as intend to spend ii now. I should preach this night at Gloucester, and again at five tomorrow morning After that l should ride to Tewlsbury, preach in the afternoon and meet the societies in the evening I 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 Fa- ther, lie down to rest, and wake up in glory.
 This was the feeling which enabled the American, Gen. Stohewall Jackson, to die as he did When told he had only two hours to live, he answered: "Very good; it is all right, Order A. F Hill to prepare for action. Pass the infantry to the front rapidly, Tell Maj Hawks" Presently a smile of ineifablc sweetness spread itself over his fIcc, and he said, quietly and with m oppression of relief: Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.