The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-04-01

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over-auoted theory about WON n
ing taken from the left side near the
door of the heart. | think she was
taken from the right side and under
the right arm, suggestive that he was
to fight her battles for her and be her
uufailing defense. and strike down her
assailants and avenge her honor. That
is what fills man with Indignation
Unbounded and makes him Evid with
rage when you say anything against
his wife. You may abuse him, you
may cheat him, you may defraud him,
you may insult him, and he will for
give you but You say anything
against his wife-if you propose to do
it--you had better stand out from his
side That they might walk the path
of life together. That she might he
his care, his angelic ministry. To
him the best thing in all the earth.
From his side 1! On, the tenderness,
and the pathos, and the beauty. and
the sublimity Of The Mosaic account.
YOU FIND NO MIRTH IN 1T.
You who read the account of the mar
riage at Bennington, some two years
agO-how the two on the following
day stood in the wreck of the Hudson
river rail-trajn. and persisted together,
their twO bodies taken up the Isle Of
the church, those who bad been ushers
az the wedding pail bearers at the
grave. letting the twain down in the
same sepulcher. The conductor said
she might have been rescued. His
limbs were pinioned fast, hut only her
dress was fast. She might have been
saved, hut she would not come away
from his side From his side ! Not
so much mirth for you in that Mosaic
account, if you remember the two old
people at the opposite ends of the ia
lIe In the Old hOmestead-whv did
YOU put them in tie village graveya- d
side bv side ? When YOUR work is
done. You will find them side by side
Moses wrote a Yassage thrilling with
ceneuries of ma nficent power and
rolling m eternal reverberation If
grandeur when he said. from his side.
Not So much mir h in it for you-nOt
50 much mirIh IN this Mosaic sccOunt
tor YOU WHO st ,Dd by the caSset OF the
dead wife, and lifted TIE thin and
wasted fngrr that was plump and
round ma Y years. ago whHn You put
the ring on, and as you stand there
every unaiud word you ever ut
tered il her hearing comes back with
stirg in it, and you told the hands
that have done So many kindnes~es
for you over the sill heart, and all the
memories of the past rush upon you in
an agonizing farewell. 1t is not so
funny t. you. From his side FROM
his side
DON'T LIKE THAT KIND OF FUN.
ain fOud OF fun I; as fond of tun aid
mirth As any one you ever saw. but
there arr some kinds of ackening
damning Jokes which abhOr with all
nav soul. dom Ike to hear a man
giegliug about God and cariraturing
sacred things. the accident | spoke
Of m mint ago was only a joke, one
of those ,kes | d mt eni ~. A gen
temau on the train on which the a.
cidrns occurred said, | will pull the
bell and sop he train-(-trp it at
the most dangerous part of the roaI
right near a short curve il will b.
grand sport. But his companion said
don't vou touch that YOU will have
an accident. But lie persisted, / am
going to have some grand sport am
going to pull il, ana he did. TIE
cord caught the air brake ant tna
train stopped at the m ,st dangerous
part Of The road. Meanwhile the 81.
Louis express came on at fpriy miles
an hour aad bang crash twenty
souls hurled into eternity. Mr. Iuger.
coll thinks it would be Such q grand
joke to stop the long train of the
Christian reIiIi ami leave lis in "a.
similar predicament, ] lma sine with
the express train OF sn aud Sa an
laundering along behind us Mr.. In
gersoll pretends that tine Christian re-
ligion is obsolete and the Bible an alb
surdity. | will give you few fac s to
Show you how the Chlistian religion
has become solete facts gathered by
one outside of Ihe church and trust
worthy to an extent that even the
sweeping scepticism would gladly ac-
KNOWLEDGE. In the first century Of
the Christian religion there were
100000 members of the church; in
the second century, 1000, 900; 10 the
third. 5 1000 600 in the fourth, TO-
100000 /; SEE the tide rise In the
fifth, 100000 in the sixth, 90.
100000 in the seventh. 24,000,000 !;