---
title: 'Self-Slaughter'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas De Witt Talmage'
date: 1898-07-13
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Depression, Discouragement, and Suicide'
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 16'
- 'Job 14'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/talmage-1898-self-slaughter
---

# Self-Slaughter

Report on Mont-Lawn fresh-air children’s home and T. DeWitt Talmage’s sermon condemning suicide (Acts 16), arguing infidelity and despair underlie self-murder.

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