SUICIDE STATISTICS We V have noticed tho the lynching I record for tor 1907 Tho The suicide record Is not less lesii Ic alarming According to the tho figures published In 1000 the roll rl of ot suicides for fort the tho e entire country county amounted a to ta 1498 white while that of the year just closed was WIS There Thera was an annual of over When alt all duo allowance has hILS been made for or the Increase In population n the fact remains that tho tile crime of self murder Is ete dilY ly growing The Tho ho chief causes c are aro 11 said to lo ho bo alco alcoholism alcoholism holism worry domestic or financial trouble shame and fear ea of disgrace or weariness of ot life neurasthenia and 11 other nervous disorders Insomnia crime extreme poverty po vert disappointed love and domestic Infelicity Many of ot those who take their own lives have lost their reason and und aro are not nat responsible ble blo for tor their deeds Tho The causes causel operating operatIng ing lug for tor destruction have In many ot of these thes ceS first destroyed tho the reason reasoning reasoning ing faculties Tho fi fact Mt ti l seems to be bo that the keen Iwen competition ot o modern life lo In ln which the tho struggle for fOl existence e has baa hU bc become ii more intense than ever Is too ton much for foru u 11 great number of human beings They Tey simply perish In tho the vortex To this Is l added tho the loss of ot faith In God Men and ant women have havo persuaded themselves that the tho to grave Is tile the end ot of all nl Why Wity hy should they then on and und fight tho battles batles of ot life under hopeless die dis disappointment appointment If I they tho cannot set In lu life a I preparation for eternity and In Inthe Inthe inthe the experiences here a necessary school sc ool tag Ins for lor another existence they tey have no hope hove Suicide and loss lOBS of ot Ono One IH is but bul a natural sequence sentience ot or the tho UI other ather In conditions ot or trials and ond suffering Then tho various denominations ons that profess to offer otter tho the gospel gospel of ot salvation to humanity miserably fall fail tal to heal hal the tho d deep ep sores of ot which modern society is suffering Buffering Like LUo tho the Priest and ad Lovito of ot old thy they pass by b They The ore are ae too loo busy bury with wih disputes about dogmas to give any attention to tho the problems of wage earners and toilers Christianity takes especial notice of tho the weak the tho little ones the tho bruised reed recd But Dut Christianity has hns been practically die dis discarded carded clde from Irom tile the Institutions of oC the great gleat wide world Ind In Its Is stead the tho Ue prevalent principle Is II each enell one ona Ot lor br 10 himself and lot let tho the fittest survive Ills J It Is title tills t philosophy that bears beals its Is ler Let ter terrible tilde fruit in It I JI Is for lor reformers and philanthropists to wako wake up UIt up to the tho situation and Ind not go o on fiddling while Rome Home IB is II burning Money Mone given for educational institutions and ani libraries Is not bringing salvation lulaton Re flo Reconstruction n construction Is the tho remedy And this title can come como only through personal or Ol O to apply to the dally dal affairs of life Ufe the tho principles of ot the tho Gospel Oo pel at of tho the Re Ito Redeemer n deemer