The Portland daily press., 1895-01-31
IS SUICIDE A SIN !?
Robert G. IngersOIl Says 1t Is
Not.
What the Genial Philosopher
Really Means.
Other Equally Eminent Men Differ
From His Views.
A Question Involved Each of us
Must Decide.
A Letter Of Powerful Interest TO Our
Readers.

The eloquent Robert G. Ingersoll, in q
recent communication to the New York
World, takes the ground that suicide
is not always sin. New York's mos'
eminent clergymen, statesmen and Judg
es immediately filled the columns OF that
paper with protestatlons against the
great thinkers theory.
What Mr.. Ingersoll really said and
meant was that under certain circum-
stances suicide was not sin. For in
stance, he thought that in case of per
son suffering with sickness and hopeless
of cure, it would not be a sin to end
such suffering by self destruction.
Mr.Ingersoll's idea was the humani-
tartan one of arresting pain. But he
forgot that it is often difficult, nay i'm
possible, to draw the line when disease
is durable or incurable.
Mere suffering should not be warrant
for self destruction. Countless cases OF
terrible, yes, excruciating suffering,
have been cured even after all hope was
lost, and doctors have pronounced the
disease incurable. Many sufferer from
disease has been brought to the verge OF
suicide and afterwards recovered perfect
health.
An estimable lady, Mrs. Lila G. Root.
who resides at sc Elm St., New Bedford,
Mass, tells the following facts:
IT was very nervous" she said, land
my kidneys were in a bic state, and
i had awful pains in my back and side
. and could not sleep at night. My head
ache was a source of great annoyance,
and I suffered much at certain periods.
e SI cannot speak too highly of DR..
AGreene's Nervura blood and nerve
remedy, for it cured me of my terrible
i CON laints. Why. I felt SO miserable
thatI often thought 1 would take my
own life. thank God for directing
me to this wonderful remedy. deem
it my duty to say that / think DR..
Greene's Nervura blood and nerve RENE
dy the best medicine n the world.
Case after case like the above might
be cited, when all hope of cure had
been abandoned, and the persons given
( up to die, and yet this wonderful
medicine has brought back health and
joy unto the stricken households.
Suicide is self destruction. 1T is just
as much suicide to neglect ones health
when slightly i'll, or when apparently
trivial symptoms arise, as to deli berate-
ly take one's life. To feel nervous, to
have weak nerves. to be tired, listless
languid, to lave headache, indigestion,
constipation and dyspepsia, to pass sleep
less nights, to wake tired mornings, to
be ever so slightly run down in health
and strength-these are the sure pre-
cursors of serious diseases, to lie later
followed by prostration and premature
death, unless attended to at once.
Suicide is sin, and il is suicide to
neglect your health. Take this grand
medicine, Dr.. Greene's Nervura blood and
nerve remedy, and it will make you well
and strong. Take it because it cures;
take it because it, is PHYSICIANS pre-
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IA Temple Place, Boston, Mass, the
most successful specialist in curing
nervous and chronic diseases. and who
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by allowing all to consult him, free Of
charge concerning their diseases, either
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