"You are embarrassed in your circumstances; you have been robbed of your property by fraud, or by disastrous occurrences; you have been precipitated from the height of affluence to the most abject poverty; "you cannot dig, to beg you are ashamed" (cf. Luke 16:3), and therefore resolve to fly from life. But before you take this dreadful and irrevocable step, pause a moment, and answer me the following questions. Is a large portion of property indispensably necessary to happiness? Have not thousands been contented and happy with as small a pittance as that which you yet possess? Nay, have not some found more real enjoyment after being thus reduced, than they found in the days of their affluence and prosperity?"
Suicide is a crime; this book will show you why that is the case. Written by Pastor Samuel Miller in 1805, this is a rich and discursive lecture on the nature of suicide.
Samuel Miller was a Presbyterian theologian who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary.
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