Show SUICIDE ACT GIVEN DEFENSE I Rev Wilson Personal Friend Recounts Career o of MacFarlane i i No r one should criticise Peter Peler Clark MacFarlane tor for his self self-in- flirted ln elt death for tor It was a brace I thing which he did and It was just like according to C C Wilson minister of ot the Congregational church and for tor many leers scara a 0 personal friend of the dead author l was as broken on the tho I wheel of ot tho soul souls soul's desire to ex- ex ex express press Itself and he felt th lo Was nothing loft left to do but to d the ruins And given his sense of dramatic which he neer never lost for fora fora tora a single ingle moment imminent such uch a solution was as almost almot lIable Ine after the pressure presure became too strong upon his highly sensitive souk Suicide will III be regarded rel mOre philosophically In the future Mr Wilson believes In his Sunday mornings morning's sermon he characterized our present attitude toward the subject as ns being belne too soft ot and sentimental It required more tor for to bring his brilliant career to an abrupt ld eM than to allow things to drag along hopelessly ly RECALLS CLE ur The minister recounted the out out- outstanding out outstanding standing events In l lire life as an actor pi preacher eacher and nov nov- novelist nov HOT with special emphasis upon his a as pastor pa tor for foi seven years of ot a church In Alameda Calif lane MacFarlane a was a born tighter fighter He lie was always al ala a s crusading ing lug While in Alamed t 1 he h hired to help clean up the town and Iut put on the lid He went ent into court against gamblers ind l saloonkeepers s But leams e ls at- at af afterward he h confided confided to Mr Ir Wilson his hi belief that he had made mad a mistake e in his puritanical methods ot of reform and that It If he lie had It to do over anin he would try to win in la lawbreakers through friendship In Instead tead of through force torce Mr Ir Wilson said It didn't mat mat- matter matter ter whether a man ended his hi ca career ca- ca career career reer in the thc prime of life liCe or not so long as he lie could say as q did l that he lie had really It I ii is better to have fire fhe leas lea's calS of intense living than a hun hun- hundred hun hundred dred years of mere ph physical exist exist- existence existence existence ence Many nI people reach matur matur- matur maturity maturity ity lIy with no ad adventure in sight e ex except that of eating etting and rag 1111 themselves es SG CLOSI-SG Closing with an ImpassIOned plea tot foi the cultivation ahon of ot the spirit of or adventure which Mac Mac- Mac ac- ac exemplified Mr Ir Wilson Insl insisted ted that salvation atlon did lid not consist in resting In the everlasting everlasting ing arms or clinging to the rock o of ages or being satisfied with thinking that somebody living I mg t two 0 thousand years ago had it all Salvation consists In the th rapturous ous ous of ot the adventure of lifo life and In not being satisfied wo we 0 have broken open e ever eer er door to truth and beauty Only such uch ous spirits have really lived or el ha have hate e earned a monument on 0 |