The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-07-21

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tempt. He was sheriff. and accord.
ing to the Roman law, a bailiff himself
must suffer the punishment due an
escaped prisoner, and II the prisoner
breaking jail was sentenced to be
endun.eoned for three or four years
then the sheriff must be endungeoned
for three or four years, and II th,,
prisoner breaking Jail was to have suf-
fered capital punishment then the
sheriff must suffer capital punishment.
The sheriff had received special charge
10 keep a sharp lookout for Paul and
Silas. The government had not much
confidence in bolts and bars to keep
safe these two clergymen about whom
and SUPERNATURAL. Sure enough, by
miraculous power, they are free, and
the sheriff, waking out of n sound sleep
and supposing these ministers have
run away aud knowing that they were
to die for preaching Christ and real
iZing that he must therefore die. rather
than go under the eXecutioner's aX on
the morrow and suffer public disgrace.
resolves to precipitate his own de-
cease. BM before the sharp, keen
glittering dagger OF the sheriff could
strike his heart one of the unlOosened
prisoners arrests the blade by the COM
mand "Do thyself no HARM"
In olden times and where Chris
tianity had not interfered with 1t
suicide was considered honorable and
sign Of courage. DemOsthenes
poisoned himself when told that Alex.
anders ambassador had demanded the
surrender of the Athenian orators.
Isocrates killed himself rather than
surrender to Philip Of Macedon. Cato,
rather than submit to Julius Caesar,
took his own life, and three times after
his wounds had been dressed tore them
open and perlshcd. Mithridates killed
himself rather than submit to POmpey
the conQueror. Hannibal destroyed
Lis life by poison from his ring,
considering life unbearable. Ly'
eurgus n suicide, Brutus suicide
After the disaster of Moscow Napoleon
always carried with him preparation
of poison, and one night his servant
heard the eX-emperOr arise, put
something In glass and drink 1t. and
soon after his eroans aroused all the
attendants. and It was only through
the utmost medical SKILL that he was
resuscitated. Times have changed
and vet the American conscience need.
to be toned up on the subject Of suicide
Have you seen paper In the las
month that did not announce the pas
sage out of life by ones own behest!
\ pulpit not long ago expressed som'
doubt as to whether there was reall!
anything wrong about quitting thi
life when IT becomes disagreeable, ant
there are found in respectable circles
people nnolOgetic for the crime whicl
! IL H. l." ;ryi arr S'pd. | shall SHOW
"i"r. | get through that suicide
:; the worst Of all crimes. and shal
warning uEnis,akahle. But Ii
tie early part Of this sermon l wisl
40 a..iit that some Of the hest Chris
tians that have ever lived have coin
mitted self destruction, but always II
"omentia and not responsible. hav
no more doubt about their eternal fe
iiclty than have Of the Christian VIII
dies In his bed In the delirium OF ty
nhoid fever While the shock Of til
catastrophe Is very great, l charge al
those who have had Christian friend
under cerebral alteration step Of
the boundaries OF this life, to have n
,, dour. about their hlppiness. The dea
I.o;t, ;orh them right out of their dnl
ed and frenzied st.ite into perfect SAFE
ty. How Christ feels toward the II
; sane YOU may know from the way
trca'ad tie demoMiac of Gadara, an
the CHI. lunatic. and the potency wit
which l.e hushed tempests either OF sc
I or brain.
Scotland, the land prolific of nte
. lectual giants, had none grander tha
Hugh Miller, great for science an
I great for God. He was an elder !
) ST. Johns Presbyterian church. II
I came of the best highland blood an
! was . descendant of Donald Rey,
man eminent for piety and the raj
I gift of second sight. His attainment
) climbing up as he did from the QUAR-
( and the wall OF the stone mason. DIRE
forth the astonshr,l admiration ,
auckland and Murrhison. the scien
lists, and DR.. Chalmers, the theOlogla
) and held universities spe.lbound viii
I he told them the story Of what he ha
! seen of God in THE Old Red San,
: stone" That man did more than al
I other being that ever lived to sho'
) that he God of the hills Is the God I
{ the Bible. and he struck his tunir
I forl. on the rocks Of Crolnarty until
5 brought geology and theology accOr
I ant IL divine worship. His two bool;
) entitled Footprints Of the Creator
( ard "Thc Testimony Of the Rocks
I proclaimed the barns Of an everlas
) ing marriage between genuine scieH