Neglect—what a deadly mistake!
The businessman does not have to commit forgery or robbery to ruin himself: he has only to neglect his business, and bankruptcy is ahead.
The woman who has just heard the diagnosis of “cancer, but it is still early enough to treat successfully” does not have to rush to suicide; she has only to neglect the lifesaving treatment to expect an early death.
A man floating in a skiff above Niagara Falls need not move an oar or make an effort to destroy himself; he has only to neglect using the oar for too long, and he will certainly go over the falls without hope of rescue.
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?”