The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-02
INFIDELITY.
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Noah with one wife and Shem with one
wife and Ham with one wife and Japh-
eth with one wife. Does the Bible ia
vOr pOlygamy? In Leviticus xviii, Is,
God thunders his prohibition on having
more than one wife. No doubt God per-
mitted pOlygamy to continue for some
time just as he permits murder and ar
son and theft and gambling to-day to
continue, although he is against them.
Because President Hayes and Garfield |
and Arthur permit pOlygamy in Utah |
for the time and did not already cut 1t |
to pieces with the sword is no reason |
why you should say they approve of it. |
The Jews understand that the Bible and |
its author were against pOlygamy. |
There is only one case of pOlygamy men |
toned in all the 43O years of the stay of |
the Jews in Egypt. All the mighty men |
of the Bible stood alOOf from pOlygamy, |
except those who for falling into it |
were chastised for their crime within |
an inch of their lives. Adam, Noah, |
Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Joseph, Samuel, |
jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Paul, were |
all mOnOgamists. But you say David |
and Solomon had plurality of wives. |
Yes, and did they not get we'll punished
for it? By the way the Lord chastised
them is it not evident that all the edicts
behavior? David suffered for his crimes
among the caveTns of Adullam and Ma
sada, and in the wilderness of MaOn,
and in the bereavements of Ziklag; the
BedOuins after him, sickness after him,
AbsalOm after him, AbitOpel 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
TNfNks in, oil l.,
pire married to one plain JeWesS but
was happier than the King in liasiOn
with Bathsheba. And Solomon, how
did ne get on with his pOlygamy? Read
his warning to others in Proverbs. Read
his disgust with himself in Ecclesiastes.
He was enthrOned Wretchedness. He
was crowned Despair. He thrust up his
hands in utter lOathing when he says:
vanity of yaRities." His seven hun
dred wives nearly prosecuted the life
out of him. | repeat, all the mighty
men of the Bible were mOnOgamists ex-
cept those who were pounded and
| failed and cut to pieces for their insult
| to the holy marriage relation. Yet, be-
hold the effrOnteTy of Mr.. IngersOll, who
stands before the audience and tells me
the Bible favOrs pOlygamy. If that
were so, how do you account for the
fact that DOlygamy reigns in all lands
|
| POlygamy all over China, and all
| through India, and all over Africa, and
all through HeathendOm, except where
| missionaries have been, while pOlyg.
| amy can not abide in England and
| America except in defiance of the law,
as in Utah, from which place the Presi-
dent and the Congress are getting ready
to eject it. The Bible abroad in a cOun-
try, you have GOd-hOnOred mOnOgamy.
| n oil ha oh
| lygamy. When Mr.. IngersOll says the
Bible approves of pOlygamy, l hurl the
accursed SANDER back into his blasphe-
nous teeth. How much his opinion of
the marriage relation is worth leave
you to judge when in his lecture he
compared a celebrated English au-
thOress of blackened morals with Queen
Victoria to the depreciation of the latter
In other words, rather than Queen Vie
tOria, the purest specimen Of Christian
wOmanhOOd on any throne in the world
he prefers an authOress whom all intel
ligent Europe and America knows tC
have lived in open and undiSguised
Offense of the marriage relation, heI
example an insult to every pure wO.
man in ChristendOm. As for me,
have less admiration for the literary
adulteress than L have for her who
when girl of nineteen years informed
that the crown of England was hers
knelt and asked an Archbishop to pray
Gods blessing on her reign, and, rear.
ing her family of Princess and PTin-
cesses in the faith of the Christian life
has found in her WidOWhOOd the cOnsO-
latiOns of that Gospel which cOmfOrted
Prince Albert in his last moments while
she sang to him in Windsor Castle with
trembling lips, Crock of Ages, cleft for
me, and, who, whether in plain dress
passes out Of the Castle at BalmOral and
Osborn to read the Scriptures to the
poor in the lane, or going down to
ChiselhuTst holds the hand of the ban
ished Empress as she stands by the
: caSket of her boy, the only son of his
mother, and she widow; or cables to
the Capital of our nation her anxiety
for our wounded chief, and sits down
with her own hand to write such COM
fort as only widowed soul can give a
widowed soul; is always the same
Christian, sympathetic woman for
whom we Americans and Englishmen
and ScOtchmen, whether in earnest
prayer OF enthusiastic huzzah, are ready
to eXclaim, God save the Queen! No
sir; the Bible shall not be dragged into
advocacy Of pOlygamy, while a certain
printing house which publishes IngeT
} soils lectures against Christianity has
on one of the fly-leaves an advertise
ment of the most obscene books anC
cards ever imported from Paris, the
names of which would not dare to reaC
in any decent assemblage.
Before l get through this course o.
Sabbath sermons in answer to Inger
soil, the champion blaspRemer of Amer
lea, L shall show you that the Bible i!
the friend of all that is pure, and tha
fidelity is the friend of all that is i'm
pure. This much-abused book is the
only safe cornerstone for the house
hold. The only wine fit for the wed
| ding is that which Christ makes. 1t il
an Old-fashiOned present; but wheI
your daughter, carefully nurtured al
these years, takes the hand of anOthe
to go forth into her own home, bette
than the betrOthai ring, better than or
ange blossoms in the hair, better thai
the wedding march to which they kee
step as they begin the journey of lif
+ together, will be a well-bOund copy o
the Holy Scriptures, on the fy-leaf he
name and the inscription, From fathe
and mother on the marriage day. W
may pay fifty cents or dollar to go il
and hear IngersOlPs lecture, in whic
the Bible is caricatured and our SaviO
inSulted; but the time will come Whel