Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-25


isfed with the excuse given for the drunk
ell dcbauch OF this same righteous Lot"
and his daughters, Do you justify David in
the taking OF Uriah's wife' DO you excuse
him fer having that brave man placed in
the front Of che battle N that he might be
SLANT When rebuked therefor what did
David dol put away the womAni No sir.
He plead guilty it is true, whimpered o
little, and held fast TO the woman. Count
his wives aud concubines; peep into Solo
mons sersglio and view his three hurslrcd
wives and seven hundred concnbine-. Yet
the law, which you claim God himself had
directly given to the Israelite, said only
one living wife was lawful. These men
too were the exponests aud enforcers of
the law. Why my dear brother b. these
representative men of Jewry just wallow.d
in a sensual quaginire Of wives and con-
cubines. | know this Sweet singer of
Israel is credited with beautiful and sub
lime poetry, he often PUTS up the mos,
touching appeals to Col for mercy, and in
the next breath calls down the most dire
curses upon his enemies, down to the
fourth and fifth generation. Yet you claim
David was q man after Gods own heart!
that God gave unto Solomon all manner
Of wisdom! aud yet the one wanted TO
die with young maiden in his old withcr-
ed arins, and the other, in spite Of all his
God given wisdom, wondered of after
strange Gods.
All which but goes to prove that David
and Solomon were but men; anil that great
men or men we call great, can and do do
little things, or what we call little things;
and that good men or men that VIC call
good, can and do do bad things, or what
we call bad things. And 1t also proves
that people living in glass houses should
be careful how they cast stones; aud fur
ther, that If the written record of old times
and men do show forth such dark facts
the unwriten must be beyond conception.
You scornfuiiy ask il the Sacred recordn
has any account Of rappings, table tippings,
seances, BE. Answer says no, so far as
words 60. But it has great deal to say
about frogs and lice aud bloody water and
death angels AMI pillars Of sal. and ravens
and bears and quails and Jericho rams
horns and jaw-bone exercise (that Of an
ass tool aud hair clipping and stone sling.
ingand sun scotching 10y this same "sae red
record too, you know, "a man of Cod in
Richmond last spring proved that the "suu
do nove,,") and star moving and God com.
manding whole nations, men, women,
children, slaves, and beasts to bloody cx-
termination, &C, all away back yonder
thousands of years ago.
o Bible. What lies man has made you
tell or you have made man tell on God:
what misseries and burning; what agonies
and cursngs, you have authorized in His |
name, or have had pcrpetrated in His |
name, TO enforce your texts Us construed
by man, right or wrong, down the throats
Of mon and women.
The Bible neither lies nor ISLANDERS God. !
It's you, o man, that do these things in
your own vain imaginings and strange de-
viscs, ~ to what God would have.
"Because thing lis of God, that is no posi-
tive evidence that it will prevail" That is
an honest confession, and such is said
to be good for the soul. You are yet in the
wiideroess of doubt and uncertainty, where
from spiritualism can 80 clearly and hnppi-
~ lead you. But We will reserve this con-
fession for future reference.
But spiritualism, you insist, leads to the
greatest inhdelity. Not 50. On the con.
trary II leads clearly the other way-to
truth and God. 1t proves to man that he
is indeed the child of God; IL lesds him
knowingly to the glorious fact that inumor-
tality is Ivy the operation Of Divine law
which cannot be annulicd. II is Your teach.
ing that drives man to infdelity to ma
terialism From his infancy yoo have been
him in labyrinth from which
his reason cannot release him; and that
reason, given of God to guide him, tells
him there Is q reason. a CAUSE for every
thing, in due conformity to law. You ten |
him to have fhitt--in OF on WHAT What
you teach! Then if he refuses to Eulp
down your strange tcachingA unqusstion-
ed, a. hog docs his chop, you howl him
over the land A. devil, crying "cr,cify
him, cruelty him. Having befuged his
brain until it has become helpless; having
dwarfed and darkened his spirit until it
trernblea with fear and rs<asss 70 be coni-
forted, i'll his bewildcrmcnt ara madness
he casts aside your God, your Bbfe, your
teachings; sinks down into stolid isdidss-
erce doxetuy awaiting The issue,