The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-05
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Our own opinion is that some sui
cides are insane at the time Of
their deed.
But now we wish to consider
the case of the sane suicide, the
man who in possession of his men,
tai faculties deliberately and will
fully takes his own life.
We are afraid that many suct
are lacking in faith: faith in Goo
and His love and care and Ills
promises to provide for all who
trust and obey Him; faith in the
fact of the soul that survives the
body; faith in future life, which
is determined by this life; faith IN N
final judgment, when God snail
bring every work into Judgment
with every secret thing. whether
it be good, or whether it be evil
faith in Jesus Christ and the bless
ings of salvation which are as
sured in Him. Once a young man
came to a minister and questioned
him about humiliation, the idea
that death ends it all. The min
lister gave him the evidence for
faith in a future life, especially
the Astounding testimony of Gods
Word. The next day the young
man returned and told the minis
ter that on the preceding day he
had made up his mind to commit
suicide but that faith in a future
life had caused him to abandon
his purpose. We were talking =
few days ago with a doctor, who
is somewhat of a free-thinker-
one who gets his ideas out of his
own mind instead Of from the
Word of God. This doctor said
that he felt that he had been
pretty much of a failure and that
he could cheerfully end it all by
taking his own life but that he
was restrained from it by his be-
lief in a future life. We read an
article of his on the subject and
quote the following words: "The
suicide wakes up in another en-
vironment and instantly realizes
how foolish he has been. He isn't
dead and out of it all as he had
hoped, but has only added to his
troubles. He is just so much low
er in the next plane than he would
have been if he had carried on
in this plane of life" Shake
speare expresses something of the
same idea in "Hamlet's Solilo-
quy": "To be or not to be: that
is the question. Whether tits no
bier in the mind to suffer the
sings and arrows of outrageous
fortune. or to take arms (gun CT
pistol or other instrument Of
DEATH against a sea of troubles,
and by opposing end them. TIC
die; to sleep; no more; and by a
sleep to say we end the heartachc
and the thousand natural shocks
that flesh is heir to. IT'S con.
summation (state) devoutly to be
wish'd. To die; to sleep;-to
sleep? Perchance to dream! Ay,
there's the rub; for in that sleep
of death what dreams may come,
when we have shuffled off this
mortal coil turmoil of life), must
give US pause (cause the would
be suicide to hesitate). There'#
the respect that makes calamity
of so long life. For who would
bear the whips and scorns of time,
the oppressor's wrong, the proud
mans contumely (scorn), the
pangs of dispriz'd (undervalued)
love. the laws delay (injustice)
the insolence of office, aud the
spurns that patient merit of the
unworthy takes, when he himself
might his quietus make with 4
bare bodkin dagger Who
would fardels (burdens) bear 70
grunt and sweat under a weary
life. but that the dread of some
thing after death, the undiscov-
cred country from whose bourn
boundary no traveller returns,
puzzles the will and makes us RI
Their bear those ills we have than
fly to others we know not of?
ooh, surely faith would restrain
sane man from taking his own
life-faith in God and in a future
life and in the Saviour Jesus
Christ. DR.. Warren, quoted above,
in a recent article IN the Litter
airy Digest" says that the most
effective remedy that he uses with
would-be suicides is the one that
Paul gave TO the Philippian iailer
whom Paul dissuaded from killing