Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-10-16
M ARTINSBURG INDEPENDENT

SANDER. The Bible in many places
recognizes is existence, as 1t doe
all other kinds of sin, brit does not
In any one case sanction il. On
the contrary, Ia Levitt cos, 18th
chaDter and 18th verse, me unmis.
takeable command is: "Neithef
shall man lake one wife unto an-
other; - VIII e Paul pu 5 it square.
~ before Ell nations vhel ne says:
LET every man have his own
wife and every vomeI he own
husband LarIech WIS the FIRST
pc .ggamist men loned in tue Be-
e, and he, by his own co.,fess or
was mUrdere'. For for v 5e1 =,
he Israel.,es God s chosen PEG ne
ae Lew 'Le u Ye. ~ =
u 100000 IS ae itC, ne c
~as a al ne 10 - yea oDl'
one case of polygany. And when
in your Eib'e you find man with
more tnal one VIE you find him
up 10 MS a, ia trouble. Daviu
dates lis le,,er from the belly OF
bell: and So ONION, pestereL @
death with mis- OWL lngoverI able
household, says; There s nc
good under the sun, vanity or van
i,ics, all is vaDity.' The whole
drift of the Bible is against polvg-
AMY. God saiQ at the beginning /:
lit is not good that man should
be alone. l wilt make for him a
helpmeet.' Mark you, it is 10
the singular number a helDmeet.
anybody ever needed more than
one companion, Adam Y as that
man, for there was no society. AS
God was starting The institution,
He. of course, would start it r;Ght;
and IL poiygamy was not ri2hv,
then, of course, it would have
been demOnst "a Cd, and instead of
one rib taken, Adam would not
have rib left. The human race
was 10 bridge over the flood. How
many wives did Noah take into
the ark? His wife aod each o. his
sors a wife. If polygamy had
been right they would each have
taken a dozen, and so much la ger
a number would have been saved
from drowning. The meo aud
women ia each eeoeration and i !
all countries since the world stood
have been about quail, o., in cases
exception, men have been
in The majority. No surplus Of
womanbood. Does that look as if
he creator or the race favo's po-
lygamy? The Bible is not more
antagonistic to theft and blrs-
1hemy. Yea, in proportion is in
nigh advance and in proportion
as general good mora.s prevail,
plurality of wives is discounte-
nanced. Where polygamy exists
there may be a house, a large
house, splendid house, but no
home. How much peace and
prosperity in England would
there If four, or five, or twenty
queens attempted with Victoria to
occupy the same throne, or live in
Windsor Castle, just ! much as
here can be quiet aud happiness
in domestic establishment where
more than one wife attempts TO
be queen. One of the mightiest
foes of family relation is polyga-
my.
EQUALITY OF WOMAN.
Woman must be recognized as
az equal of man. All that poetry
about man being an oak and wo-
man the ivy is stale, fiat and un-
true. In tens of thousands Of uses
of financial disaster where men
have been flung and trodden un-
der foot they have gone home de-
termined to give up the struggle
of life, wishing they were dead
Although when a man wishes
that he was dead he lies. Attempt
% kill him and see how much he
wants to live. But, utterly dis
men have gone home
and the wife has given encourage
ment; the wife has by her fat.
ia God hidden him be of good
cheer; the wife has told him not
W LlAlA lklO LhioA0L tuACs aAo chO
planned out other ways of getting
along, aud on the strength of the
wi7e's courage the hrsband
hs1 b en- helped into renew
Ell prosperity. Who is the
oak now and which o. the twain
is the ivy? In order 10 secure do
mestic felicity the wife must at
least be treated as The equal. /
like the ring of that worldly mer-
chants manliness, :, when some
one called on him soliciting aid
for o missionary society, said i:
II don't see the importance of
that inst tuition myself, ard there
fore must decline subscribing
But you may call on my wife,
Perhaps she will take a diffe. ent
view of Inc subject, and if so we
will act according to her pleasure"