The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-16

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| Perhaps he Will like little better my
Catechism. How did the religion OF
Jesus Christ agree with your mOthert
Did it make her cross and GRABBED, and
! harsh? or mild, and gentle, and loving
Did it comfort her in her days of troubles
| Was she deluded with it to the last
Was the Bible pest to her in her dying
hour, or an encOuragementp He has
practically told us all about his father
as a bigOt. Let him tell us something
about his mOther-his Christian mother,
his sainted mOther-his mother at whose
knee, l think, he us ed to say his prayers
Cannot he now, out of all the flowers OF
rhetoric, twist one garland for her
! memory? He boasts of his courage.
There is one thing l dare him to do. |
dare him to take her Bible and in his
own room, alone, and with the door
locked, kneel down some Sabbath after
noon and read while kneeling the four
| teenth chapter of John. Come, now,
| there's a challenged Surely he who
scouts the God of the Bible and deties
! the army of prophets and apostles, and
| bullies perditiOn has courage enough, es-
| pecially when his door is locked, to kneel
down and read the fourteenth chapter
| of John. Is it not most inetfably mean,
accuTsedly mean, to leave his early home
covered with the clOnd of OblOquy, if
at the door of his Christian mothers
sepulchpr and | cry out for justice from
this intidel lecturer. Ungrateful infidell
Owe you nothing to the bosom that
| nursed you, to the arm that enfOlded
you, to the lips that prayed for you, to
| the hands that tOiled for your welfare?
| You do not believe in the Bible. You do
not believe in the God of the Bible. Do
| you believe in your mother? | do not
| 4 ~ TnI 10 fv51 GnH
| you say he was tiend, nor the God of
| Wesley, for you say he was fanatic, or
| the God of the Westminster Assembly
| Catechism, or the God of your father
or by your fathers God, but by your
mothers God, by the biTth-pang that
| launched you, by the cradle that rocked
| you by the hour, when you were held at
the altar in the old meeting-hOuse, and
the officer of religion said: Robert,
baptiZe thee in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost"
By that God beg you to reconsider and
turn and live.
The meanness of infidelity is displayed
by Mr.. IngersOll's attempt to destroy
the chief solace without offering any
substitute. You have only to read his
addresses on funeral occasions to see
how utterly cOmfOrtless is infdelity in
the dark day of trouble. There is more
than in Mr.. IngersOll's words at the
grave. You might as we'll get the spirit
of eternal darkness to lecture on the
brightness of everlasting day. The
Bible has cOmfOrted in trouble un-
counted millions. Why, then, take it
away? What would you think of
crusade like this-a man makes up his
mind to destroy all the worlds medi-
cines. He organizes an effort in all the
aft oil fI,n ~ n 70 folr oil
the anOdynes and sedatives out of the
apOthecaTy stores and out of the hOspit-
ais. The medicines are seized and hurled
into the rivers and lakes. The invalid
wakes at midnight with violent paTOx-
ysms of distress. The nurse has no
drops to give him, but instead an essay
to read him on the absuTdities of NOR
phine and nerVines in general. While
the patient is writhing in pain the nurse
is in Mysteries of laughter at the origin
of anOdyneS, the inconsistency of anO-
dynes, the cruelties of anOdynes, the in
decencies of anOdynes. In the hospital
a gangrened limb is being amputated
The patient says: Give me ether; give
me chlOTOfOTm." "Oh, no." says the doc
tor, while the amputatiOn is going on
l will read you a few laughable chapters
on the mistakes of James Y. Simpson,
the discOveTeT of ether, and Doctors
Mott, Rush, AbeTnethy and Hamilton.
The anRsthetics have all been destroyed"
Nothing except fun on the subject of
medicines. All you patients in Bellevue
Hospital lie down and stop grOaning,
and all you heart-bTOken people of all
the cities stop crying. Take this allO-
pathic dose of wit. Try this strengthen
ing plaster of sarcasm. We have found
the cathOlicOn at last. Here is bottle
of TibaldTy. Shake it we'll up, and take
a spoonful after each meal. If that fail, |
battle in this solution of pleasantly. |
Take a tinctuTe of this deTisiOn. Tickle |
the skeleton of death with a repaTtee. |
Make the King of TerrOrs cackle. For |
all the agOnies of all the ages, a jOkel |
In other words, while millions of people |
are willing with uplifted hand to affirm |
that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the |
greatest coincidence they ever had, Mr.. |
lngersOll proposes to take it away, and |
substitute uOthing-absOlutely nothing. |
Can you imagine a greater height or
depth or breadth or length or immensity |
of meanness?
Mr.. IngersOll also attempts to take |
away all explanation of the future and |
substitute the religion of Don't know"
Is there future life? Don't know. Will |
we recognize each other hereafter? |
Don't know. Is the soul immortal? |
Don't know. Is there God? Don't |
know. Where are our departed friends?
Don't know. That religion of Don't
Know" is to take the place of the religion
IF Il Know" 81 know that my Redeemer
liveth." 81 know in whom | have be-
lieVed and am persuaded that He will
keep that which have committed unto
Him. The religion of awful negatives
The infidel proposes to substitute for our
religion of glorious positives, world of
reunion and ecstasy and high compan-
lonship and worship and stupendOus
victory, the mightiest joys Of earth not
high enough to reach even the base of
the Himalayas of uplifted splendor
which await all those who on wing of
Christian faith soar to them. Did you
hear of the crusade to put out all the
near the coast? Did you
know that by conspiracy next month on
the same night EddystOne Lighthouse,
Bell Rock Lighthouse, SkerryVOre Light
house, COrdOnan Lighthouse, Barnegat
New London Lighthouse,
MOntauk Lighthouse, and the six hun
dred and twenty lighthouses on our
and Pacific coasts are to be ex-
On that night what will
the ships do near the coast? On that
night what will become of the one mil
lion sailors on the sea and the millions