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SUICIDAL MANIA,

I It looks very much from recent events as if some people were taking advantage of Justice Gillies' lbnient exposition of the law relating to suicide, to " drill a hole whi^h the tailor can't mend." -Sir Peter Laurie, unlike tPij^tice G-illies, determiner! to put that sort of thiikg down by severe punishment; for the fxnere attejhpt. As if, said fchc London Punch, the, misg,#Kled offenders who H'ure not afraid of ru6ul"Bg "into the presence of their Maker, and coming before His tribunal unasked, would be afraid of entering the presence of Sir Peter Laurie ! The Great Napoleon said it swas the one offence — that of attempted suicide—'among his soldiers, with which he dealt most harshly, for the man who went out into the Unseen

to avoid the i troubles oz^ waß aß great a coward as the soldier who mutted-M,^ field { n front of the enemy. There|^. also this"M-*_,,| ier consideration, that it is the (|utylS%very Christian to prevent his neighbour fi«|m. hufrying himself unprepared into the presence jir his Maker. Judge Gillies, as a professnlgatThristian and a Christian judge, will appreciate the force of this argument.

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