6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, J § LY 1808, THE SUICIDE. Hs Who Takes His Own Life Com- mits the Greatest Crime. Rew. Dr. Talmage says the American Cons selence Neods Tonlug Up — Infidelity Has Done Foster Sul- olde Than More to Anything Else, The followin ularly approp 80 many means of chosen | divine is harm.” Here is n in his iff, and, according 8 bailiff himself fahment due an es if the ‘pris tenced to be endungeo: or four years, then the she endungeoned for three and if the prisoner bn to have suffered nisl n then the sheriff 19t suffer capital punishment. The sherif received especial ch to keep out for Paul and Silas ment had not mu bolts and bars to keep clergymen, about whon to be natural. power, they waking ou posi ng these and knowis pre ach ng must the: der the row his ow sharp sher the u blade harry In olden ity had caped oner breaking three t be VYCAars, inil was men arge some subje paper ann assage one's ( behest? Defa at the en of expos cipitat Men los ro ol not trated dyspept fauvy throp: CAUSse by | donna it ys the end } worl earthly BOCCONI ing ap as did from the q the wal uarry drew forth the admiration of Dueck land and Mure hison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and held universities spell-bound while them the story of what he had seen of Gol in the old red sandstone That man did rore than any other being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills is the God of the Bible, and be struck his tuning-fork on the rocks of C romarty until he brought geology and theology accordant in divine wor- ship. His two books, entitled “Foot- prints of the Creator” and “The Tes- timony of the Rocks” proclaimed the banns of an everlasting marriage be tween genuine science and revelation On this latter book he toiled dav and night, through love of nature and love of God, until he could not sleep, and his brain gave way, snd he was found dead with a revolver by nis side, the eruel instrument having had two bulk lets—one for him and the other for the gunsmith, who at the coroner's inquest was examining it and fell dead. Have you any doubt of the beatifications of Hugh Miller after his hot brain had ceased throbbing that winter night in his study at Porto bello? Among the mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of Heaven, oS one doubted the plety of William r, the author of those three SE Bra, “0, for a Closer Walk ith God,” “What Various Hindrances We Meet,” “There is a Fountain Filled With Blood"—William Comper, whe * stonemason. and | | A case he told | aL shares with Isans Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors of Christian hymnology. In hypochondria he re- solved to take his own life, and rode to the river Thames, but found a man seated on some goods at that very point from which he expected to spring, and back to his home, and that nig threw himself upon wii knife, but the blade broke; il then he himself the broke WON d mercifully 1ered to roy No where Bera there fidel. hallenge been was ither de: fore irresponsible, challenge all the univers Ti of self le in full appreciation of his immortality and of the fact that that immortality would be glorious or ording as he accepts | or rejected him. A man in London deliver his infidel and went ho sat down, and these words “Jesus Christ is one the weakest characters in history, the Bible is the greatest possible de. ception.” And then shot himself David Hume wrote these words wit would be no erime for me to divert the Nile or the Danube frim its natural bed. Where, then, ean be the erime in my diverting a few drops of blood from théir ordinary channel?” And having written the essay he loaned it to a friend, the friend read it, wrote a letter of thanks and admiration. and shot himself Appendix to the same book Rossenn, Voltaire, Gibbons, Mon taigne, were apologstic for self-immo lation. Infidelity puts up no bar to wople rushing out from this world Fee the next. They teach us it does not make any difference how you nve here or go out of this world; you will land either in an obvious nowhere or lorious somewhere, And infidelity ho ds the wf a end of the rope for the suicide, and aims the pistol with which a man blows his brains out, and mixes not « ented, or an ind 1 never truction while Hes ere wretched ace Jesus Christ heard Mr. Owen lecture on socialism, wrote of and me, | the strychnine for the last swallow, | country | difference If inflc delity could carry the day and persuade the majority of people [n this that it does not make any how you go out of this world you will land safely, the Poto- mae would be so full of corpses the would be impeded in their re and the crack of the suicid 4 istol would be no more alarming than s ramble of a street car, ould God that the in re and whet ibility the boats re Tess, coroners yu le mented | roof of t) ny resist all seribe li who have ever have their way wounds ngfally Ud | that God keeps your life with keeps the Your grave as lemme chronology of much precision ns nology of nations as your cradle There is a sorrowless world, and it is radiant that the noonday sun is only the lowest doorstep, and the au rora that lights up our northern heavens, confounding astronomers os to what it can be, is the waving of the banners of the procession come to take the conquerers home church militant to chureh triumphant, and vou and I have ten thousand reasons for wanting to go there, but we will never get there either by self-immo- lation or impenitency All our sine slain by Christ who came to do that thing, we want to go in at just the time divinely arranged, and from a couch divinely spread, and then the clang of the sepuldhral gates behind us will be overpowered by the clang of the opening of the solid pearl be- fore us, O God! Whatever others may choose, give me a Christian's Hfe, a Christian's death, a Christian's burial, a C hristian' " immortality! the ne chro well ®o £m AGEN Shoe Wer. A shoemaker says we wear awa quite two inches of shoe leather in a year. A pair of boots that would “last a lifetime” would consequently have to be provided with soles from eight to nine feet thick, THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE| , LuNG TROUBLES AND CoxNs BE CURED MPTION CAN py — yo p—— p— -—- wt sed 4 NORMAL _— a ln dn cen STATE SCHOLL JAMES ELDON. A. M_. Ph. D..Principal, PROFESSIONAL CARDS CLEVER THING TO DO: If you have a Sister Mother, r Aunt drother, ot Father or Son or Daugh K ter, Uncle -0f course you have-living in some distant pa: of the an 1 will country you appropriate gint be appreciated them Tun CRNTRE year. Costs you only §1to doit, and will keep them informed dur. ing the year about happenings in Centre county. Would that not be the clever thing to do? 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