Show ON SUICIDES during the course of a speech made at a sunday school celebration last wednesday elder moses thatcher Tha referred to the suicide mania that t h at baa b become so BO prevalent since the influx of hard times time he strongly boal oo 00 damned not only the act itself but also the practice e of those who delivered the sermons almost invariably attributing the rash act to ity fly and eulogizing the characters of these self murderers at the same time tailing failing to speak of we the heinous crime of which they bad been guilty this was wrong he said in the flight fight of iod and these speakers would be hold held responsible fur for the tendency their words might have to encourage others who entertained thoughts of self destruction in the belief that the lord would not hold bold them nible in akis opinion of the speaker the sul suicide oldia should be buried in unconsecrated ground with scant cere ceremony monys instead 4 ot of being buried by the side of those who had bad faithfully and valiantly struggled against a fate face possibly many times more trying than that to whim he be had succumb eu the ezeaker fp ep eaker believed the result of touch buch treatment treas would soon be perceptible in the decrease of suicides and that the thought of self murder instead of beng being the first to suggest itself in the hour of ad ver varsity sity would be the last |