Suicide is now generally considered a symptom of some form of insanity, permanent or temporary, in which the emotions and passions are excited or perverted. The following statistics respecting suicides are from Ckamoers's Encijclojnedia, s. \-.: "In the kingdom f>f Sweden tiiere is calculated to be 1 suicide to every 92,375 inhabitants; in Saxony, 1 to 8446; in Russia, 1 to 34,246; in the United States, 1 to 15,000; in Paris, 1
to 2700 : in St. Petersburg and London, 1 to 21,000. In all ICngland the proportion of suicides is 7.4 to every 100,000 people." See Winslow, /Ijw/ow^ of Suicide; Brierre de Hoismont, J>u Suicide et de la Folie Suicide; Bert rand, Traite du Suicide; Kadclifife, Enylish Suicide Fields; Medical Critic, 1862.
Sukkah. See Talmuo.
Suk'kiim (Heb. SuHiyim', n''^3p, hooth-du-ellers [Gesen.] or inhabitants oJ'Sok [Flirst] ; Sept. TpwyXo- ("rrai; Vulg. Trof/lodi/lw, A. V. " Sukkiims"), a nation mentioned (2 Chron. xii, 3) with the Lubim and Cushim as siip|>lying part of the army which came with Shishak out of Egypt when he invaded .hulah. If the name be Hebrew, it may perhaps be better to su|)posc them to have been an Arab tribe like the Seenitii; than Ethiopians. If it is borne in mind that Zerah was apparently allied with the Arabs south of Palestine [see Zki£Aii], whom we know Shishak to have subdued [see Shishak], our conjecture does not seem to be imiirobable. The Sukkiim may correspond to some one of the shepherd or wandering races men- tioned on the Egy|itian monuments, but we have not I'ound any name in hieroglyphics resembling their name in the Bible, and this somewhat favors the opinion that it is a Shemitic appellation. — Smith. The Sept. and Vulg. render Troqlodz/tes, ap|iarently meaning the Ethi- opians by that name, who lived on the western shore of the Araiiian (iulf (Strabo, xvii, 786), who might have been employed as fleet and light-armed auxiliaries of the Egyptians (Heliod. ,£V/(. viii, 16). Pliny (vi, 34) mentions a Troglodytic citj- in this direction called Suche (see Bochart, I'haley, iv, 29). See Ethiopia.
Suleviae, a kind of wood-goddesses among the an- cient Gauls, who are known to us only from an inscrip- tion in bas-relief found near Lausanne, which includes three female figures whose hands are filled with fruit. — Vollmer, WOrterb. d. Mi/tlud. s. v.
Sullivan, Daniel N. V., a minister of the Meth- odist Episcojial Church, South, was licensed as a local preacher in Alabama in 1833. In 1838 he removed to Texas, and engaged in teaching. In 1840 he was re- ceived on trial into the Texas Conference, and served the Church as pastor and presiding elder until his death, at Houston, Feb. 20, 1847. He was a minister of a high order of talents, and especially eminent for his ability in defining and defending the doctrines of the Bible. See Minutes <if Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, Soiilh, \x\l, p. 96.
Sullivan, Lott Bumpus, a Congregational min- ister, was born at Wareham, IMass., June 27, 1790, and was a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1814. For some time after leaving college he had charge of the Academy in Wrentham, Jlass., at the same time reading theology with the Rev. Otis Thomp- son of Hcholioth, Mass. Having completed his theolog- ical studies, he went to Ohio, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in the town of Lyme iu that state. Here he remained about six years. Sub- sequently he resided for ten years and more in West- ern New York as a missionary in the service of the American Home Jlissionary Society, and performed a most accei)talilc work in preaching to several churches in that newly settled region. He did a like service in sparsely settled sections of New Hampshire and Ver- mont. For several years he reside<l at Shutesburv, Mass., preaching as opportunity presented. He died at Fall River, Mass., March 1, 1861. See the Cony. Quarlirh/, 18G1, p. 216. (J. C. S.)
Sullivan, Samuel B., a minister of the Method- ist Kpiscojial Church, was born .Ian. 27, 1825, and was converteil at the age of eleven. In 1846 he was licensed to preach, and at the next session of the Erie Conference was received on trial. His ministry, though marked with many conversions, was short, for he died April 9, 1853, He was a man of more than ordinary powers of
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mind — fervent, forcible, sublime, and generally powerful ill his preaching. See Minutes of Annual ConJ'ertnces, 1853, p. 248.
Sully, Maurice de, a French prelate, was born at Sully-sur-Loire, about the middle of the 12th cen- tury, of obscure parentage. Having accjuired an educa- tion through charity, he taught letters and theology in Paris, and was at length made canon of the Cathedral of Bourges, and eventually of that of Paris, to the bish- opric of which he finally attained by some means. He greatly enlarged the edifices, honors, and emoluments of that see, and died Sept. 11, 119G, leaving Letters, Ser- mons,nmX a French translation of'the New Testament (Lyons, 1511, 8vo). See Hoefer, Nuur. Biog. Gen. s. v.
Sully, Odon (or J'Jiides) de, a French prelate, was born abi)ut 11G5 at La Chapelle d'Angillon (Berri), be- ing the son of Eudes Archambaud, lord of Sullj'. He was educated at Paris, and in 1 184 became singer at the Cathedral of Bourges. In 1 187 he visited Home, and in 1196 succeeded his brother Maurice as bishop of Paris, a see which he is said by Pierre de Blois to liave adminis- tered with great fidelity, but by others in a mercenary manner. He took the pope's part in the ecclesiastical quarrels of his country at the time, and was compelled to flee, leaving his property to be confiscated by the crown, but was eventuallj- restored with additional hon- ors. A council of Paris was held under him bj"^ the pa- pal legate in 1201 ; he laid the foundation of Porrois, af- terwards famous as Port-Koyal ; and he preached a cru- sade against the Albigenses. He died at Paris, July 13, 1208. See Hoefer, Nottr. Biog. Generale, s. v.