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Show Unitarianism in Utah of employment. And yet, when he faced the fact of adversity, when he met the stern necessity of at least a temporary change in his manner of life, when he stood face to face with the possibility of a material condition in which over ten million people in this country he need despair some live their whole lives, and with the added comfort of the love and devotion of a young and charming wife, his soul now shriveled and collapsed, and he took his his the interpretation put upon presumably know the facts. Life didn't worth facing solutely right. Life as he worth living for anyone. seem on living saw it The suicide the was not only by terms and he - life. Such own which he was right, ab living, isn't was worth there reason was those who are not ten times as many suicides as there are is because such a small number of people ever do any thinking, or because so many people fear death more than they fear to live on any terms. It is no virtue that millions of men and suicide it isn't a - no virtue at bit better to live a women all, only ignorance merely or do not commit superstition. animal life than it is to end a For worthless existence. But the need of religion is vastly more than the need of something prevent suicide. It is the need of something to of life in mere animalism. We men and the waste prevent WOmen need nothing so much as we need a purpose in living to which makes equal to every emergency, enables us to keep our feet anywhere, which no event of life or death can disturb. What purpose or thought of life can do that? us I would not raise that I can there and will are it. ways of looking that question. question, if I could not But first let answer it. remind you that at life and estimates of it which do me Why did this man commit suicide? It is no answer to say he was insane. Insanity is only a disease, often a disease of the mind produced by nothing but moral not answer 2 16 answer |
