SELF DESTRUCTION.

"DO THYSELF NO HARM," SAYS THE GREAT TABERNACLE PREACHER.

He Admits That Good Christians Have Attempted Self Destruction, but Always In Dementia--Forceful Words Against a Spreading Evil--A Christian's Death.

BROOKLYN, Aug. 12.--Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is now abroad, has selected as the subject for today's sermon through the press the word "Suicide," the text being Acts xvi, 27, 28: "He drew out his sword and would have

killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried

with a loud voice, saying, "Do thyself no

harm."

Here is a would be suicide arrested in his deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and according to the Roman law a bailiff himself must suffer the punishment due an escaped prisoner, and if the prisoner breaking jail was sentenced to be endungeoned for three or four years then the sheriff must be endungeoned for three or four years, and if the prisoner breaking jail was to have suffered capital punishment then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment. The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. The government had not had confidence in bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergymen, about whom there seemed to be something strange and supernatural.

In Olden Times.

Sure enough, by miraculous power they are free, and the sheriff, waking out of a sound sleep and supposing these ministers have run away, and knowing that they were to die for preaching Christ, and realizing 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 decease. But before the sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart one of the unloosened prisoners arrests the blade by the command, "Do thyself no harm." In olden time, and where Christianity had not interfered with it, suicide was considered honorable and a sign of courage. Demosthenes poisoned himself when told that Alexander's embassador 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 after three times his wounds had been dressed tore them open and perished. Mithridates killed himself rather than submit to Pompey, the conqueror. Hannibal destroyed his life by poison from his ring, considering life unbearable. Lycurgus a suicide, Brutus a suicide. After the disaster of Moscow Napoleon always carried with him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard the ex-emperor arise, put something in a glass and drink it, and soon after the groans arouse all the attendants, and it was only through utmost

medical skill he was resuscitated from the stupor of the opiate.

The Crime Spreads.

Times have changed, and yet the American conscience needs to be toned upon the subject of suicide. Have you seen a paper in the last month that did not announce the passage out of life by one's own behest? Defaulters, alarmed at the idea of exposure, quit life precipitately. Men losing large fortunes go out of the world because they cannot endure earthly existence. Frustrated affection, domestic infelicity, dyspeptic impatience, anger, remorse, envy, jealousy, destitution, misanthropy, are considered sufficient causes for absconding from this life by paris green, by laudanum, by belladonna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by leap from the abutment of a bridge, by firearms. More cases of "felo de se" in the last two years of the world's existence. The evil

is more and more spreading.

A pulpit not long ago expressed some doubt as to whether there was really anything wrong about quitting this life when it became disagreeable, and there are found in respectable circles people apologetic for the crime which Paul in

the text arrested. I shall show you be-

fore I get through that suicide is the worst of all crimes, and I shall lift a warning unmistakable. But in the early part of this sermon I wish to admit that some of the best Christians that have ever lived have committed self destruction, but always in dementia and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than I have of the Christian who dies in his bed in the delirium of typhoid fever. While the shock of the catastrophe is very great, I charge all those who have had Christian friends under cerebral aberration step off the boundaries of this life to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of their dazed and frenzied state into perfect safety. How Christ feels toward the insane you may know from the kind way he treated the demoniac of Gadara and the child lunatic, and the potency with which he hushed the tempests

either of sea or brain.

Hugh Miller and Cowper.

Scotland, the land prolific of intellectual giants, had none grander than Hugh Miller, great for science and great for God. He came of the best highland blood, and he was a descendant of Donald Roy, a man eminent for his piety and the rare gift of second sight. His attainments, climbing up as he did from the quarry and the wall of the stonemason, drew forth the astonished admiration of Buckland and Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the

theologian, and held universities spell-

bound while he told them the story of what he had seen of God in the old red sandstone.

That man did more than any being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills is the God of the Bible, and he struck his tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty until he brought geology and theology accordant in divine worship. His two books, entitled "Footprints of the Creator" and the "Testimony of the Rocks," proclaimed the banns of an everlasting marriage between genuine science and revelation.

On this latter book he toiled day and night, through love of nature and love of God, until he could not sleep, and his brain gave way, and he was found dead with a revolver by his side, a cruel instrument having had two bullets--one for him and the other for the gunsmith who at the coroner's inquest was exam-

ining it and fell dead. Have you any doubt of the beatification of Hugh Mil-

ler after his hot brain had ceased throbbing that winter night in his study at Portobello? Among the mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of heaven.

No one ever doubted the piety of William Cowper, the author of those three great hymns, "Oh, For a Closer Walk With God!" "What Various Hindrances We Meet!" "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood"--William Cowper, who shares with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors of Christian hymnology. In hypochondria he resolved to take his own life an rode to the river Thames, but found a man seated on some goods at the very point from which he expected to spring and rode back to his home and that night threw himself upon his own knife, but the blade broke, and then he hanged himself to the ceiling, but the rope parted. No wonder that when God mercifully delivered him from that awful dementia he sat down and wrote that other hymn just as memorable:

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan his work in vain. God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

Treason to God.

While we make this merciful and righteous allowance in regard to those who were plunged into mental incoherence, I declare that the man who in the use of his reason, by his own act, snaps

the bond between his body and his soul

goes straight into perdition. Shall I prove it? Revelation xxi, 8, "Murderers shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone;" Revelation xxii, 15, "Without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers." You do not believe the New Testament? Then perhaps you believe the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not kill." Do you say all these passages refer to the taking of the life of others? Then I ask you if you are not as responsible for your own life as for the life of others? God gave you a special trust in your life. He made you the custodian of your life as he made you the custodian of no other life. He gave you as weapons with which to defend it two arms to strike back assailants, two eyes to watch for invasion and a natural love of life which ought ever to be on the alert. Assassination of others is a mild crime compared with the assassination of yourself, because in the latter case it is teachery to an especial trust, it is the surrender of a castle you were especially

appointed to keep. It is reason to a nat-

ural law, and it is treason to God add-

ed to ordinary murder.

To show how God in the Bible looked upon this crime I point you to the rogues' picture gallery in some parts of the Bible, the pictures of the people who have

committed this unnatural crime. Here is the headless trunk of Saul on the walls of Bathshan. Here is the man who chased little David--10 feet in stature chasing 4. Here is the man who consulted a clairvoyant, witch of Endor. Here is a man who, whipped in

battle, instead of surrendering his sword with dignity, as many a man has

done, asks his servant to slay him, and when the servant declines then the giant plants the hilt of the sword in the earth, the sharp point sticking upward, and he throws his body on it and expires, the coward, the suicide! Here is the Ahithophel, the Machiavelli of olden times, betraying his best friend, David, in order that he may become prime minister of Absalom and joining that fellow in his attempt at parricide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics, he takes a short cut out of a disgraced life into the suicide's eternity. There he is, the ingrate!

Two Cases In Point. Here is Abimelech practically a suicid. He is with an army bombarding

a tower, when a woman in the tower takes a grindstone from its place and drops it upon his head, and with what life he has left in a cracked skull he commands to his armor bearer, "Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say a woman slew me." There is his post mortem protograph in the book of Samuel. But the hero of this group is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Donne says he was a martyr, and we have in our day apologists for him. And what wonder in this day when we have a book revealing Aaron Burr as a pattern of virtue, and in this day when we uncover a statue of George Sand as the benefactress of literature, and in this day when there are betrayals of Christ on the part of some of his pretended apostles--a betrayal so black it makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by his own hand hung up for the execration of all the ages, Judas Iscariot.

All the good men and women of the Bible left to God the decision of their earthly terminus, and they could have said with Job, who had a right to com-

mit suicide if any man ever had--what with his destroyed property, and his body all aflame with insufferable carbuncles, and everything gone from his home except the chief curse of it--a pestiferous wife--and four garrulous people pelting him with comfortless talk while he sits on a heap of ashes scratching his scabs with a piece of broken pottery, yet crying out in triumph, "All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come." Notwithstanding the Bible is against this evil and the aversion which it creates by the loathsome and ghastly spectacle of those who have hurled themselves out of life, and notwithstanding Christianity is against it and the arguments and the useful lives and the illustriosu deaths of its disciples, it is a fact alarmingly patent that suicide is on the increase. What is the cause? I charge upon infidelity and agnosticism this whole thing. If there be no hereafter or if that hereafter be blissful without reference to how we live and how we die, why not move back to the folding doors between this world and the next?

And when our existence becomes troublesome why not pass right over into Elysium? Put this down among your most solemn reflections and con-

sider it after you go to your homes--there has never been a case of suicide where the operator was not either demented, and therefore irresponsible, or an infidel. I challenge all the ages, and I challenge the whole universe. There never has been a case of self destruction while in full appreciation of his immortality and of the fact that immortality would be glorious or wretched according as he accepted Jesus Christ or rejected him.

Tom Paine's Responsibility. You say it is business trouble, or you say it is electrical currents, or it is this, or it is that, or it is the other thing.

Why not go clear back, my friend, and acknowledge that in every case it is the abdication of reason or the teaching of infidelity which practically says, "If you don't like this life, get out of it, and you will land either in annihilation, where there are no notes to pay, no persecutions to suffer, no gout to torment, or you will land where there will be everything glorious and nothing to pay for it. Infidelity always has been apologetic for self-immolation. After Tom Paine's "Age of Reason" was pub-

lished and widely read there was a marked increase of self slaughter.

Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne, under certain circumstances, were apologetic for self immolation. Infidelity puts up no bar to people's rushing out from this world into the next. They teach us it does not make any difference how you live here or go out of this world, you will land either in an oblivious nowhere or a glorious somewhere. And infidelity holds the upper end of the rope for the suicide, and aims the pistol with which a man blows his brains out, and mixes the strychnine for the last swallow. If infidelity could carry the day and persuade the majority of people that it does not make any difference how you go out of the world you will land safety, the rivers would be so full of corpses the ferryboats would be impeded in their progress, and the crack of a suicide's pistol would be no more alarming than the rumble of a street car.

Christ Was Tempted. Ah, infidelity, stand up and take thy sentence! In the presence of God and angels and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with the corruption of the ages! Stand up, satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the nations, leper of the centuries! Stand up, thou monster infidelity, part man, part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand up and take thy sentence! Thy hand is red with the blood in which thou hast washed, thy feet crimson with the human gore through which thou hast waded. Stand up and take thy sentence! Down with thee to the pit and sup on the sobs and groans of families thou hast blasted, and roll on the bed of knives which thou hast sharpened for others, and let thy music be the everlasting miserere of those whom thou hast damned! I brand the forehead of infidelity with all the crimes of self immolation for the last century on the part of those who had their reason.

My friends, if ever your life through its abrasions and its molestations should seem to be unbearable, and you are tempted to quit it by your own behest, do not consider yourselves worse than others. Christ himself was tempted to cast himself from the roof of the temple, but as he resisted so resist ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life instead of death. People who have had it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on their way. Remember that God keeps the chronology of your life with as much precision as he keeps the chronology of nations.

A Christian's Life and Death.

Why was it that at midnight, just at midnight, the destroying angel struck the blow that set the Israelites free from bondage? The 430 years were up at 12 o'clock that night. The 430 years were not up at 11, and 1 o'clock would have been tardy and too late. The 430 years were up at 12 o'clock, and the de-

stroying angel struck the blow, and Israel was free. And God knows just the hour when it is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. By his grace make not the worst of things, but the best of them. If you must take the pills, do not chew them. Your everlasting rewards will accord with your earthly perturbations, just as Caius gave to Agrippa a chain of gold as heavy as had been his chain of iron. For your asking you may have the same grace that was given to the Italian martyr, Algerius, who, down in the darkest of dungeons, dated his letter from "the delectable orchard of the Leonine prison."

There is a sorrowless world, and it is so radiant that the noonday sun is only the lowest doorstep, and the aurora that lights up our northern heavens, con-

founding astronomers as to what it can be, is the waving of all the banners of the procession come to take the conquerors home from church militant to church triumphant, and you and I have 10,000 reasons for wanting to go there, but we will never get there either by self immolation of impenitency. All our sins slain by the 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 sepulchral gates behind us will be overpowered by the clang of the opening of the solid pearl before us. O God, whatever others may choose, give me a Christian's life, a Christian's death, a Christian's burial, a Christian's immortality.

Bees Suspend a Vendue. Honeybees proved more than a match for 200 men at a recent public sale. When the auctioneer who was selling the effects of the late Charles Taylor, near Neshaminy Falls, put 23 hives of bees under the hammer, an inquisitive but imprudent youth kicked one of the little homes occupied by about 3,000 honey makers. There was instantly a warning buzz, and out filed the bees in companies, regiments and bridages. The 200 men scattered in as many directions, pursued by the angry bees. Farmer James T. Vansant tried to pacify the army of little brown foes, but a few stings sent him flying after his retreating friends. For an hour the bees held the situation unopposed. They then gathered in their hive, and the sale pro-ceeded.--Bristol (Pa.) Dispatch.

Electric Branding Irons. An English bacon curing company recently received a suggestion that they should utilize the electric current during the daytime for heating electric branding irons, which should be used in place of the old fashioned brands. This suggestion was adopted, and the company is now branding its bacon by this new method, which has given general satisfaction.--Electric Review.

A Good Excuse. Judge--You were discovered at midnight crazy drunk running up and down the street declaring that you had no home, when every one knows you live on Commonwealth avenue. What excuse have you to offer? Prisoner--None, except my wife is cleaning house. Judge--Discharged!--Boston Traveller.

ODDS AND ENDS.

President Garfield's farm at Mentor has been divided up into building lots.

Take care of what you say before a wall as you cannot tell who is behind it.

The savings bank deposits in New Hampshire have risen from $41,686,132 in 1884 to $77,024,282 in 1893.

In the year 760 A. D., Pope Paul I sent the only clock in the known world as a present to Pepin, king of France. There are few people who can pay a just debt without acting as if they were conferring a favor.--Atchison Globe. The name "Brazil" means "red wood" or "land of the red wood." The original discoverer called it "the land of the holy cross." Breathing through the nose is the only proper way to sleep. If you awake in the night and find your mouth open, get up and shut it.

The family with the longest known pedigree is that of Confucius, which forms the aristocracy of China. Confucius lived 550 years B. C.

The earthen lamp used by Epictetus, the philosopher, was sold for 3,000 drachmas soon after the death of that worthy in the year 161 A. D. Not less than 1,000 people were trampled to death in the crowds which gathered at the fete given in celebration of the marriage of Louis XVI of France, June 21, 1770. The $15,000,000 in gold borrowed during the Baring crisis in 1890 from the Bank of France was returned by the Bank of England a few months later in the very large kegs in which it came. J. H. Hart, curator of the royal botanic gardens, Trinidad, has recently returned from a visit to Central America, after having successfully transported thither no less than 25,000 plants of Trinidad cocoa.

An old law, which had been forgotten, requires all ships leaving the port of New York to carry a small cannon, two projectiles and 500 yards of line, so that in case the ship should be breached the crew would be able to communicate with the shore. All sailing masters have received notice to comply with the law.

Survival of the Socially Fittest.

The benefits of co-operation in the development of man are too well recog-

nized to be denied. Physically weaker than many of the animals that surround-

ed him, he could not long have survived in a struggle for existence against them had he been forced to continue that struggle alone. Nor could he have attained the mental development upon which so much of his success has depended without contact with his fellows.

The most important, if not the necessary, condition of man's success in the strug-

gle for existence is society. Social growth becomes possible only through the survival of the socially fit. In an advancing society this process must ever tend toward the production and preservation of the "ethically best."

Recognition of the rights of others has been equally as important in the evolu-

tion of man as self assertion. Indeed, it may be claimed that under the conditions of social life it is a necessary consequence of self assertion. Men could not live long together unless they recognized the right of each to his own and respected it. The survival of a society, like the survival of the individuals composing it, becomes possible only through adaptation to the necessary conditions of life, and it will not be denied by Professor Huxley that morality is essential to social well being.--Popular Science Monthly.

The Murderer's Hand.

A recent conference of French chiromanists laid down the following rules for telling a murderer or one likely to commit murder upon slightest provocation: He always has the true ponce de bille, or "baldheaded thumb"--that is to say, the thumb has a round, bulbous appearance. It is also short, and the nail is so abbreviated as to suggest the idea that the owner has the habit of gnawing it down to the flesh. The nail is deeply buried in the flesh, which rises on either side and extends much above the surface. A remarkable or abnormal development of the "Mount of Mars," which, plainly speaking, means a thickening of the outside edge of the hand. Chiromanists say that persons with this mark, when in a passion, have rushes of blood to the brain, which causes them to "see red." He has the "scaffold sign"--a violent and abrupt cutting off of the "line of the head" (the one running across the palm by the line running toward the fingers

from the wrist. The presence of but three lines in the palm (these occasionally reduced to two), and always of a bright scarlet. Crooked and uneven, knotty fingers, which broad tips, and nails very small ragged and uneven.--St. Louis Republic.

The Value of Drawing.

Mr. Thomas Woolner, R. A., tells how Mr. Nasmyth of steam hammer fame once gave him an illustration from per-

sonal experience of the value of drawing.

Mr. Nasmyth was traveling in Norway, and one day in a wild, out of the way place reached an inn, very hungry, but unable to make the hostess understand his wants by anything he could say. He was considerably perplexed till he hap-

pily thought of his pencil. He then carefully drew a dish in perspective, with steam rising from it. Beside this he drew a plate, with a knife and fork, and on the other side of the dish a bottle and a wineglass.

When he had completed this diagram of his wants, the face of the hostess

brightened, and she at once left him to execute his design. He then went for a stroll and on returning found the picture complete. There was the bottle, with wineglass beside it; the plate, knife and fork, and the dish covered. So as soon as he sat down mine hostess lifted the cover, displaying a fine hot fowl that sent forth a cloud of steam.--London Tit-Bits.

Idaho's Horse Queen. Miss Kittie Wilkins is claimed by the state of Idaho as a veritable "horse queen." She has a ranch with about 3,000 horses and 2,000 head of cattle thereon and while she buys and sells all the stock her brothers are only in trusted with the care of the animals.

At Lommatzsch, Saxony, a woman of 64 has received ten blows with a stick by order of the burgomaster, and in the presence of a doctor, for habitual drunkenness.

THE GEOMETRY OF BEAUTY. A System of Principles In Formative Art Which Existed In Ancient Greece.

In a recent lecture before the Scientific club of the Pennsylvania state college Professor Osmond showed that all physical beauty is associated with sound, color and form, which, if not the bases of its being, are its vehicle to us. It is a psychological law that the mind is pleased with simple ratios. In their most abstract form these harmonic ratios are pure numbers, obtained from the elements 1, 2 and 3, forming the harmonic numbers 2, 3 and 5. It is a fact that in sound, color and form relations governed by ratios constructed from the harmonic numbers or their simple multiples are pleasing. This law or fact of mental constitution is the starting point of the inquiry after the principle common to sound, color and form and constituting in all beauty. The application of these ratios in music has been known from the time of Pythagoras; also in color various harmonious combinations have wave lengths in harmonic ratio.

In obtaining beauty of form the har-

monic ratios are applied to angular magnitude, not to lengths or surfaces. The eye refers everything to a vertical line and a horizontal line, constituting a right angle. The right angle, 1, is harmonically divided into parts having the ratios to itself that the notes of the octave have to the fundamental note. The lines that so divide the quadrant are the diagonals of harmonic rectangles, and each of these has a curvilinear figure, the ellipse, and three (or six) inscribed triangles, all

harmonic. These harmonic rectangles, ellipses and triangles may be put to-

gether in combinations of infinite variety and necessarily pleasing effect in decoration and sculpture and architecture.

Examples of these are found in "The Parthenon," "The Venus of Milo," "A Portland Vase," etc. Drawings of sec-

tions of the eye show why beauty in form depends on harmonic relations of angles from the very manner in which things are seen.

The value, financially and aesthetical-

ly, of a system of principles that will guide those engaged in all the formative arts to the sure production of a true and pure beauty is beyond estimate. Such a system existed in Greece in the three centuries of her glorious sovereignty in art.--Exchange.

Around the World. The time required for a traveler to circle the earth has been greatly reduced since the imaginary trip of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg, who succeeded in getting around the globe in 80 days in spite of storms, shipwrecks, Indians and detectives. The question how long it would take now to go around the earth has recently been discussed in the Antwerp Geographical society.

The answer given by M. E. de Keyser was 67 days, including the loss of a day at New York, the journey being made eastward by way of Yokohama and San Francisco. But in the near future this time is likely to be cut down to 45 days and perhaps less, through the completion of the railroad across Siberia, which, at the present rate of progress, may be open from Europe to the Pacific in 10 years.

With the average railway speed for long distances doubled, it is predicted that in the coming century a traveler may be able to go around our planet in 24 days.--Youth's Companion.

Temporarily Blinded by a Flash. At the Narragansett Electric Lighting company's works in this city there are two men who have been temporarily blinded when throwing a switch. Superintendent Thomas says that this happens in every big electric lighting station. When a switch is thrown, the circuit is broken. When properly done, another connection is made simultaneously. The intense flash lasts until another connection is made. One of the men of the Narragansett company's works was so nearly blinded that he was home three days at one time. He was not, however, as is said to have been the case with Caulfield of Brooklyn, unable to see anything at all. He was able to grope about, but could see nothing distinctly. Both the men are remarkably strong specimens of manhood and could not be called hysterical by the widest stretch of the imagination. It is believed here that the cases mentioned are of physical inability solely.--Providence Journal.

To Improve Plaster Casts. A plaster cast or bas-relief, however beautiful in form, is inartistic on account of the disagreeable effect of the lead white plaster. This unsightliness can be entirely overcome and the statuette or group in relief made to look like a piece of old ivory by rubbing the surface with melted wax mixed with an in-

finitesimal quantity of raw sienna or amber. If well rubbed after it has been waxed, it will take on a soft polish, and the crude plaster will be transformed into a material that is quite delightful in texture and color. Casts of Barye's lions when treated in this way are really superb, and a bit of antique frieze may be made to look like marble mellowed by age.--New York Tribune.

English School Reform.

The British parliament has passed a special act introducing manual training into all the common schools of the kingdom. This has been largely owing to the efforts of women on English school boards. Three ladies are members of the London school board, and women serve on many other school boards.--London Correspondent.

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