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i . ■rei a AGE ON •t By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, D.D.. Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby* terieoi Church, Chicago Chicago. July 12.—In view of the stalling increase in the crime of self 'destruction, as shown by the latest statistics, the subject chosen by Dr. Talmage for his discourse today is a iost timely one. His text is Job ii, 9, * “Curse God and die.” Two incitements—desperate, fierce, lefinite, outrageous! The one urges -^broken hearted father, the financial r bankrupt. the physically tormented man, to grit his teeth and, with flash ing eyes and uplifted hand, hurl a fu tile malediction at the Almighty, to curse God with *n eternal blasphemy. What a shocking, appalling suggestion! Enough to make all heaven stand aghast in horror and to render even the demon infested caverns of a hopeless inferno silent with fear and to turn the flushed cheeks aflame with the fires of eternal woe white with terror. Curse God! Who could do that but a human being crazed and desperate and reckless under intolerable anguish? The second incitement puts in the hands of the sufferer the suicide’s knife, the hangman’s noose or the vial labeled with the two fatal words, f'Deadly Poison.” To how many in jevery age has that insidious temptation (Come? In the United States alone /more than 30.WO persons have yielded 1 to it during the past four years. In Chicago alone 1,294 persons passed out of life by the suicide’s gate in three ^ years—nine victims on a single Sab- ' bath. In two months of the present year seventy-five lives have ended in self immolation. How long will the human race listen to that hideous voice which bade Job seek in death escape ?rom his misery? That tempter’s voice Is sounding louder and louder every day. Shall the crime of self murder be allowed longer to spread the per nicious doctrine that with one stroke of the razor across the jugular vein or with one plunge in front of a flying locomotive or with one leap from high building or lofty palisade the would be suicide can find rest, eternal rest, God given, blissful oblivion for all who are I weary of life and peace for souls sick of the results of sin? JP The increasing suicidal epidemic of ^7 the present generation should be halted ; in its onward march of destruction. I lift my voice today in warning against this evil. It cannot be stayed by up braiding a mangled corpse or by call- im; a dead man a coward. I would I^yerfully and earnestly try to indi cate some of the causes which produce it Then, in guarding you against the Incipient evils, I might perhaps by the grace of God keep some from ever tot tering and swaying on the verge of the precipice or tumbling into a suicide’s grave. The gunpowder magazine can be exploded by a spark. We would deal this morning with primal causes rather than with resultant coniiagra- tions. Atticism Il<*Ni>onsil>le. First, I charge atheism with the chief responsibility for the crime. Self mur der is the hideous black visaged ex ecutioner of the merciless monster we call atheism, agnosticism, infidelity. It is the old, slimy serpent coiled up un der the overshadowing branches of the gnarled and worm eaten tree of unbe lief, at the foot of which sits the grin ning, blear eyed hag misery crooning a dirge for a lullaby. It is the death rat tle of a human being whose parched lips have been set to the rim of the Chalice filled with the scorching, poi sonous concoction of blasphemy and falsehood compounded by a Voltaire, a Rousseau, a Thomas Paine or a Robert G. Ingersoll. It is the whetstone, wet with human blood, upon which the moral sensibilities can be blunted and at the same time the suicide’s knife sharpened, for it teaches immortal man that there is no hereafter and that he Is responsible for his life’s actions to no Divine Maker and King. No suicidal razor was ever honed upon the leaves of the opened Bible. Though the morning newspapers al most every day are blackened with the awful obituary tragedies of men and women who have deliberately taken their lives by the bloody hand of self murder, you cannot find among those who perished, in the full posses sion of reason, a single consecrated Christian church member. You can not find one person among them all who realized that he was a beloved child of God and that he expected to go to meet a loving Heavenly Father unless the person killed himself dur ing a fit of temporary insanity, as did ,^Iagh Miller, the great Scotch scientist, who blew out his brains during men tal derangement, or that eminent New 'York clergyman who, in delirium, leaped from a window. Why? The Bible distinctly and emphatically de clares that no man has a right to com- ^mit self murder. It warns' men that they must answer for this terrible crime before the Judgment seat of Christ, and it holds out to them no hope of pardon during all eternity. Read the eighth chapter of Revelation: “And murderers and whoremongers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Read tL. *st epistle of John, third chapter and fifteenth verse: “No murderer hath eternal life abiding in 1dm.” In the sound of such a divine warning, does any Christian man, with his eyes wide open, attempt to sound the “open sesame” of the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem with the crack of a suicidal platol? r- Dare any Christian, by self destruction, obliterate that life which God alone can give and which God alone has a right to take away? I’nt on the Goaiiel Armor. The whole tendency of the gospel of Jesus Christ is opposed to this suicidal epidemic; the whole tendency of unbe lief is to promote and increase it. To the atheist life is a single span, one abutment of which is the cradle and the other the grave, at which he meets annihilation. To such a man there is no better principle of life than to eat, drink and he merry, for tomorrow he dies. He would make life a comedy for all and death a great finale. His idealism would do fo^ his fellow men as that millionaire capitalist recently did for his friends. He provided, by last will and testament, that "no serv ice of a religious character be held at his grave; that a special train of Pull mans be chartered to take his remains from Louisville to Cincinnati to be cre mated; that the buffet cars be well stocked with good things to eat and drink; that while his remains are being cremated an orchestra render a pro gramme of popular and select music, and that when an intermission is reach ed the friends ask the members of the orchestra to drink ‘to the dead man’s memory.’ ” That is the consistent out come of the total annihilation belief. The earnest Christian disciple says, “Life is not a joke; death is not a finale.” Life is an opportunity for do ing good and for struggling against evil. Because the good as w r ell as the evil lives on for ever and ever we ought to put ourselves in the hsinds of the Almighty, who arranges our lot for us, and say. as did Job. “All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.” The unbeliever in the gospel says: “If there is a hell it is to be found this side and not the other side of the grave. When things go wrong the best way to escape suffering is to snap the silver cord of human life and silence the beating heart.” The Christmn disciple says: “Sanctified troubles are a spir itual means by the grace of God for raising an immortal soul on and up. Unsanctified troubles are the inexora ble means of dragging a sinful, de fiant soul on and forever down. ‘He that is unjust let him be unjust still, and he w-liich is filthy let him be filthy still, and he that is righteous let him be righteous still, and he that is holy let him be holy still.’ ” Such are the two ex tremes—the tenets of the believers in total annihilation at the brink of the grave and those of the earnest disciple of Jesus Christ. Do you wonder that I charge the hideous monsters athe ism, agnosticism and infidelity 'with being the chief causes of this accursed suicidal epidemic? Do you wonder that I look to the gospel of Jesus Christ to stay the hand of self immolation? Will you not, by buckling on the gospel armor, prepare to wage incessant war against the insidious demons who blight the lives of your fellow men by robbing them of peace, joy and faith and leaving them so despoiled and im- bittered that they prefer death to life? FiiImc Stamlardn of HnppineMa. False standards for happiness can be catalogued among the frequent, pro lific causes of thd suicidal sin. They arc the decoying mirages which tempt the weary life's traveler to lose himself in the midst of a Sahara of sand. They are the deceitful stars, twinkling their benedictions over altars of silver and of gold and of fame, which suddenly go out and leave the devotees worship ing in total darkness. They are the musical voices of the sirens singing their sweetest songs when luring their victims on to fatal shipwreck. In the false standards of happiness can be found the origin of the disap pointments which so often end in sui cide. Men do not first seek wealth or fame to possess those treasures, as a miser might hoard up his gold. They de sire the merchant prince’s palace and the king’s throne because they foolish ly think that happiness is a coy maiden who loves to robe herself in silks and to have her throat and fingers a-glitter with precious jewels, and therefore they can the more readily find her in the rich man's mansion than in the poor man’s hut. If they cannot have wealth or fame or worldly honor is about to be taken away from them, then they feel they cannot have happi ness. Then, with one pull of the pis tol’s trigger, they fliug away their blighted lives, as did the late “cotton king” of Louisiana, who lost his for tune in Wall street, or as did the late Sir Hector Macdonald of the British army, who killed himself to avoid fac ing the publicity of a court martial and a disgraceful dismissal from the king’s service. Source of True Ilapplne«>. Now, my friends, the human being who commits suicide merely because the golden breasted oriole of wealth has plumed her wings and disappeared from sight or because the iconoclast of trouble has shattered the idol of fame is doing a fool’s business. Happiness, true happiness, the happiness for which we all long and for which some of us are seeking, is not dependent up- | on outside surroundings, but upon the condition of the heart. Some of the most unhappy human beings have been the so called worldly successful men. Did all the unlimited financial wealth of Nathan Rothschild make him happy? For many years he was the universally recognized financial king of Europe. In a single day he made over $9,000,000. At the battle of Waterloo he was an anxious specta tor. As soon as that battle was de cided he put spurs to his horse and rode like the wind toward London. He had a relay of horses awaiting him and a special boat chartered to take him across the channel. Then, next morning, he appeared upon the London Exchange and circulated the report that Wellington was defeated. Securities tumbled. His brokers bought | them up by the millions of dollars’ worth. The following day dispatches from Wellington announced that Na poleon's army was annihilated. Se curities at once jumped upward. Na than Rothschild pocketed his millions of profit. But, though Nathan Roths child was the wealthiest financier in all Europe, he was one of the most unhappy of men. When a friend vis ited him one day and said, “You ought to be a happy man with all this wealth,” Nathan turned and, with a look of scorn, answered: “Happy! Happy! I happy! Bosh! Let us change the subject.” If wealth does not In itself produce happiness , neither does worldly fame nor honor. Men strive for place and power as if with them they were sure of happiness. They plot and conspire and murder that they may mount the steps of a throne, and when they succeed they find that they have gained noth ing but anxiety and worry. When the Servian king and queen, Alexander and Draga, were assassinated Pope Leo XIII. was heard to exclaim in the Vatican, “Oh, when will the people learn that thrones stained with blood are not worth having?” And yet fw financial wealth and worldly honor thousands of men will surrender their all. They will follow these w r ill o’ the wisps, though the shining lights may lead them over miasmic swamps and quaking bogs and into the fatal quicksand. They will seek and struggle and continue to struggle to possess these supposed priceless treasures, because they be lieve that in them the great heart of happiness, rich blooded and life giving, can be found. Then when they have been defeated in the struggles of life they sometimes drive the destroying dagger into their own arteries, as a tantalized serpent buries his poison ous fangs in his own flesh. Joy of HcliiinK Othern. Moral application: Do not try to build the temple of happiness out of yellow bricks. Think not that the broad highway which leads to the throne room of joy is always lined \yith applauding and vociferating» multi tudes. The ground mole may tunnel his way into a gold mine, but he still remains a ground mole. The bat, fly ing about in the darkness, may be able to push his claws into trembling men’s pockets, but he is still nothing but a hateful bat. Envy and covetousness also lead to suicide. The unwillingness to love our neighbors as ourselves is one of the indirect causes of this dreadful sin. Two ways of looking at this old world —the one is through the green glasses of envy, the result unhappiness; the other way is through the sanctified crystals of a tender, a holy love, the result gospel joy. The one way Is to bitterly bemoan because some people are supposed to be better off than we are. The other way is to try to find out how many people are worse off than we are and then with a Christian desire try to help them ns we would like to be helped if we were in their places. Through what kind of lenses have you been scrutinizing the human race? Through the green glasses of envy, which make all the world look dark, or through the clear, transparent crystals of gospel love, which always make all the world look bright? No hap py man ever wanted to commit suicide. No man can be truly unhappy who is trying to help his fellow man. When he finds that he is making others hap py. their joys become part of his joys. The suicidal knife is blunted upon the whetstone of kindness and love and self sacrifice for another reason: When a Christian earnestly consecrates his life to helping his fellow men he is amazed how many troubles are piled at his neighbor’s door and, instead of repining at his lot, thanks God for the mercies he enjoys. He becomes more contented to firry his own burdens be cause as his brother’s sorrows grow larger and larger in his eyes his own necessarily by comparison shrink and dwindle and become less and less. Beautifully illustrated is this thought by an old Latin classic: The gods, hear ing the continual grumblings of the human race, decreed that all men should be able to choose their own bur dens, but they must choose some. They decreed that every man, woman and child should bring their load of trouble in a pack and throw it in one place. Then all the different troubles of the world were piled in a heap. The rich man came from his palace; the poor man came from his hut. ^he old man came tottering upon his staff; the young man came leaping as a roe upon the mountain side. The father came, followed by his swarm of children; the single man came alone. The bride groom came, leading his bride; the wid ower came after his wife had been snatched from his side. All came with their troubles. All threw their packs in the one pile. “Now,” said the gods to the assembled people, “let each in dividual select any one pack of trouble that he would.” Of course the multi tudes w r ere overjoyed. Each man at first lifted and weighed the troubles of every other man. “Then at last,” so goes the fable, “each individual at a given signal was satisfied to lift up again his own troubles and In content ment go his own way.” The Covrard'a Heart. No power on earth can make a hu man being more contented than that which comes from being brought into sympathetic touch with other people’s trials, for all people have them. The white, fleecy clouds off in the distance, circling about the mountain top, may look like sea gulls sporting with the crest of a wave. On nearer approach they are only fog and drizzling mist The ships far out at sea have spotless sails and trimmest hulls. But upon nearer approach we see that their can vas is befouled and their hulls scarred with the blows of many tempests. Clear crystals of a tender love will not only make us try to help our fellow men and desire to live as long as we can for that purpose, but thej will also teach us to be more and more content ed with our own lives. Brother, better i change the lenses in your spectacles. Better be a sunbeam playing in th£ day than a sulking owl, .solitary and alone, croaking during the night. A coward’s heart, is a direct cause for the suicidal sin. “Oh, no,” says i some one; “that cannot be. A suicide may be this or that of the other thing, | but he is not a coward. No man is a : coward who dares to comm' 'elf mur- i der. No man is a cowa* vho will calmly look death in the and defy the grinning skeleton o' tomb.” Ah, my friend, you wrong. The direct cause of the idal sin is in variably the result coward’s heart, j It is the act of a a who runs away from trouble ir .d of courageously grappling " The bravest of deeds is to necessary to save oth ers. • But uld not be heroic for men to (P y because they are too cowan’ ht. Neither is it he roic or for any man to commit suic' ’ < ly because he is too craven her - to meet the responsibilities of lif they arise. The noblest word in respects in all the English lan- i , go is “duty.” That word will some- jjics compel its followers to plunge into and endure the bayonet thrusts of a thorny hedge, as it will sometimes give the pleasanter command of fol lowing that stern word through an em bowered pathway. Be True to Christ. Now, my friends, as the suicidal sin is often caused by a coward’s heart, how can we best become brave and true? How can we better fight this tendency to self murder than by nobly and conscientiously and dauntlessly meeting the most pressing duty which is nearest at hand? How can we cease to be cowards better than by fulfilling our honorable obligations which we know we owe to our Got? and our Christ? We have all read of the Ro man sentinel who during an awful eruption of Mount Vesuvius was ready to die at his post when the officer of the guard did not relieve him and al low him to fly for his life. Should we not be equally ready to be brave and true to that gront Commander who shall yet ride the white horse of vic tory and in the great millennial day come to claim and defend his own? He has placed us here to our duty, to live his life in the worfft, to serve him by serving our fellow men. Shall we cravenly desert our post? Shall we declare that the task assigned us is too hard for us? Rather let us look to him for the almighty" strength that he promises to his faithful servants that we may endure ns seeing him who is invisible. So let us stand undaunted beneath his standard until his sum mons reaches us and we quit with the triumphant shout: “1 have fought a good tight. 1 have finished rhy course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.” The bravest act in all the world for some men is to publicly confess Christ. While we are preaching today on the suicidal sin are you ready to be as brave as William Cowper once was? In a time of great mental de pression he was on his way to the river Thames to take his own life. When he arrived near the fatal waters he saw a man fishing at the end of the dock from which he intended to throw himself into the stream. He turned back. Then he went home and tried to stab himself to death, but the knife snapped in two. Then he tried to hang himself, but the rope broke. Then William Cowper realized what he was doing and how cowardly he was. He confessed his error before the world and gave himself up, as nev er before, to sound forth the divine praise. Oh. my friends, will you not realize that one of the chief reasons of the cowardly tendency to suicide is the unwillingness to publicly confess and work and live for Christ? As all roads were once supposed to lead to Rome, every act and deed and thought of your life should lend you to the foot of the cross. Then, oh, then, if you are true to Christ, yos will never be false to yourself! Then, oh, then, your life, instead of having a suicidal tendency, will be an eternal life of tri umphant joy! [Copyright, 190.'3, by Louis Klopsch.J TELESCOPE FOR AFRICA Description of Instrument to Be Mounted at Bulawayo. LIGHT IN WEIGHT, BUT DURABLE. Oar School Increase. The cost of our school system, public and private, is probably not less than $300,000,000 a year. Our public com mon schools, which provide for more than lo.OOO.OOO children, cost $213,274,- 3r»4 in 1900. Of this $38,083,953 went for sites, buildings, furniture and ap paratus, $130,031,838 was paid in sal aries to teachers and superintendents, and the rest went chiefly In care of buildings, grounds, etc. There are 247,321 buildings In the United States used for school purposes, and their value, Including land and contents of buildings, Is placed at $588,023,736. Today there is enough schooling sup plied to give every citizen 908 days of solid education as his life supply. Fifty years / ago the average was but 420 days, and when the nineteenth century opened the average was but eighty-two days. Today Uncle Sam gives his chil dren more than twelve times as much schooling as he did 100 years ago.— Homiletic Review. Marriage Extreme* lx Britain. A recently published table of the British census gives the respective ages of all the married couples in the kingdom. There is one husband of ninety-five years who has a wife of twenty-one, while three husbands rang ing in age from eighty-five to ninety- five have secured wives of twenty-five. Elderly wives and youthful husbands are rarer, and the greatest disparity in this direction is between a wife of slXr ty-flve years and her husband of twen ty. The oldest couple In the*list are aged 100 and ninety-five respectively, while the youngest pair have only num bered sixteen and fifteen summers re spectively. It I» Very Similar to Those In t’«e at Georgetown University and the United States Naval Observatory. ResnltH of Observation to Be Sent to Washington Before Given to the World. South Africa will shortly have one of the finest telescopes in the world, says the Washington Post. This magnifi cent instrument was built In Washing ton. It is constructed much on the same lines as those at Georgetown uni versity observatory and the United States Naval observatory. It is the same size optically, the object glass having an aperture of twelve Inches. However, ns the latitude of Bujawnyo, Rhodesia, for which place the instru ment is intended, is 20 degrees south instead of nearly 40 degrees north, as the location in Washington, the ar rangement of the instrument is neces sarily different. The focus is five feet shorter, and on this account the mount ing is lighter. This telescope Is very rigidly built, although mere weight was not the ob ject sought. The telescope tube weighs about one ton, and about 5.000 pounds are moved when the instrument is turned rn right ascension. It consists of a heavy iron pillar, on top of which rests the head stock carrying the polar and declination axes. The former points to the pole, and it is made to ro tate by means of clockwork at the exact rate the stars move, so that if a star be brought into the field of the telescope it can be kept in view for hours, as the clock moves with the utmost regularity. Should any deviation occur on account of difference in friction in different po sitions this is instantly corrected by an ingenious arrangement called the con trol, which is affected electrically and governed by the standard clock of the observatory that moves easily with the stars. The two’ axes of the instrument —the polar and the declination—are provided with circles used to point the telescope to a certain position in the sky, and the fine graduations can be read from the eye end by means of mi croscopes. For approximate and more rapid sotting these circles are also pro vided with coarse graduations which can be seen with the naked eye. There is another arrangement, how ever, which enables the observer to set the' telescope without looking at the circles and without calculating the hour angle of the object sought. This consists of two dials placed at the south end of the pillar at the height of the observer’s eye. The two axes of the instrument are geared down and end in two band wheels; by turning ei ther of these the motions are indicated on the dials. Each dial hand moves at double the speed of the corresponding axis. The declination dial is figured from naught to ninety degrees each way, the smallest space being one de gree. The right ascension dial has five second spaces and Is driven by an or dinary eight day clock. As the dial turns with the star and the hand with the telescope, this arrangement per mits to set by right ascension instead of calculating the hour angle, which consumes much time. Notwithstand ing the large number of gears involved In driving this mechanism, the total back lash Is so small that a star of known co-ordinates is brought near the center of the findings at once. George N. Saegmuller is the inventor of this valuable instrument. He planned It In 1888. and a few years later he placed it in the great Denver telescope of twen ty inches aperture, built in Washing ton. The lightness of this South African telescope is remarkable, while at the same time every part Is strong and durable. The force necessary to move the Instrument is about four pound® on a radius of seven inches. The motions are also communicated to the eye end, and it takes only a force of about two ounces to clamp and remove the tele scope either in right ascension or dec lination. The fine hour circles can be read from the floor, and the declination circle from the eye end of the instru ment. Tiffs eye end is so arranged that the spoctograph and photographic ap paratus can be readily attached. The Illumination Is by means of incandes cent lumps, and, In addition, there Is a self adjusting oil lamp. A very com plicated measuring apparatus, called the position micrometer, accompanies this instrument. Rev. Father Goetz, S. J., the cele brated Jesuit astronomer who went to South Africa some months ago to erect an observatory at Bulawayo, Is pre paring a place for this great telescope. Observations will begin at the earliest day possible, and the reports w ill be forwarded to Georgetown university and be given to the world from Wash ington. Novel Dental Device. A Moscow dentist has invented a sys tem whereby false teeth can be made to grow Into the gums ns firmly as nat ural ones. 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