Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-23
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Utah for the time, and did not already cut
IL 70 pieces with the sword IL no reason
why YOU should say they approve oft. The
jews understand that the Bible and its
author were against polygamy. There is
only one CASE Of polysamy nenti9ned IN
Egypt AL the mighty men Of the Bible
stood aloof from polygamy. except those
classified for their crime within
an inch of their lives Adam,
Noah, Moses. Aaron Joshua. Joseph.
Samuel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, kzekiel and Paai
! were al monogamists But you aay David
isnd Solomon had plurality OF views 1es.
and did they not getwell punished for Il.
BY the way the Lord chastised them is 1t
not evident that all the edicts of the eternal
God were against their behavior. David
suffered for his crimes among the cayerns
of Adulleam and Masada and in the wilder
ness Of Maon, and in the bereayements of
Ziklag, the Bedouins after him, sickness
after him, Absalom after him, Ahithophel
after him, Adonijah after him, the Edomites
after him, the Moabites after him, dethrone-
ment after him, death after him, the Lord
God Almighty after him. There was not
poor person in all his empire married oone
plain Jewess butwss happier than ths King
in liaison with Bathshebl. And Solomon.
how did he get on with his polygsmy. Read
his warning to others in Proverbs. Read
his disgust with himself in Ecclesiaste,.
He was enthroned Wretchedness.
he Was Crowned Despair.
He thrust up his hands in utter loathing
when he says: vanity of Vanities." His
700 wives nearly pestered the life ont of
him. l repeat all the mighty men OF the
Bible were monogamists except those who
were pounded and failed and cut 10 pieces
for their insult TO the holy marriage rela-
ton. Yet behold the effrontery OF Mr..
Ingersoll who stands before the audience
and tells me the Bible fayors polYgamy. II
that is so, how do you account for the fact
that polygamy reigns in all lands except
where Christianity is dominant. Polygamy
all over China and oil through India, and
all over Africa and sll through heathendom
except where missionaries have been, while
polygamy cannot abide in England and
in Utah, from which place the
President and the Congress are
getting ready TO eject it. The Bible
abroad in country you have God.honored
monogamy No Bible abroad you have sb-
horred polygamy. When Mr.. Ingersoll
says the Bible approves of polygany hurl
the
Accused Islander
back into his blasphemous teeth. How
much his opinion of the marriage relation
is worth shall leave you to judge, when in
his lecture be compares celebrated Eng
lish authoress of blackened morals with
Queen Victoria to the depreciation of the
latter. In other words, rather than Queen
Victoria, the purest specimen OF Christian
womanhood on any throne in the world, he
prefers an authoress whom all Intelligent
Europe and America knows to have lived
in open and undisguised offence OF the
marriage relation, her example an insult TO
every pure::woman in Christendom. As for
me, have less admiration for the literary
adultress than have for her who when a
girl of 10 years, informed that the crown
of England was hers, knelt and asked an
Archbishop to pray Gods blessing on her
reign, land rearing her family of princes
and princesses in the faith OF the Christian
life, has found in her widowhood the con-
solutions OF that gospel which comforted
Prince Albert in his last moments, while
she sang to him in Windsor castle with
trembling lips:
"Roek of Ages, Cleft for Me-
and who, whether in plain dress, passed
out OF the castle at Barmoral and Osborn
to read the Scriptures to the poor in the
lane, or going down to Chiselhurst holds |
the band of the banished empress as she
stands by the casket of her boy-the only |
son of his mother-and she q widow, or
cables to the Capitol OF our Nation her
anxiety for our wounded chief and sits
down with her own hand TO write such |
comfort as only a widowed soul can give
another widowed soul, is always the same
Christian, sympathetic woman for whom |
we Americans and Englishmen and Scotch
men, whether in earnest prayer or enthu.
siastiC huzzah, are ready TO exclaim, God |
save the Queen" No, sir! the Bible shall
not be dragged into advocacy Of polygsmy,
while certain printing house, which pub
fishes Ingersoll's lecture against Christi
anity, has on one of the fly leaves an adj. !
vertisement of the most obscene books and |
cards ever imported from Paris, the names |
of which would not dare to read in any |