The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-09-14
WOODWORTH.

have q look round the great west. 8
The young ladies who have been en-.
joying the balmy Bristol breezes have
left for their home in the east, aud Miss
Nellie Kellogg is left in solitude once
more.
Miss Belle Crowley, who has been So
journing with her sister, Mrs. II. D. Bur
dick, most of the summer, left for Chi
cago on Thursday. W.:
Mr.. Henry eager has returned to his
old position on the st. Paul railroad. -
Will Sheppard has returned to his
station in Missouri. He had quite a,
long visit here. 49, >re., ,
Miss Mary Carpenter returned on
Monday from long visit among friends.
It is the fashion now to remind US Ia
public meetings that here in this country
everybody may think as he likes. But
everybody may do that everywhere, but
he must not think it out loud if it is op-
posed to the opinion or prejudice of the
nearer. Now l have habit of thinking
out loud on all important questions, and
being cased in steel do not care for the
story described 80 ably by Elder Thayer.
Now think that the safety of our lives
and property depend on the state Of
civilization, and that state was brought
about and is maintained by christianity,
mot christians), or, in palmer words. by
the Bible. The Bible has slowly but
surely wiped out numberless evils, and
will continue to do SO. If the above is
true, and ! think it out loud, then the
infdel owes the safety of his life and
property to the Bible. Let us look
through the history of the world and see
low the matter stands. The Dirt ID
priests who looked after the souls of our
ancestors offered human beings in sacri-
fee to their gods. Among the Teutons
their opinion of heaven was that its in
habitants caroused all night and fought
all day. Of course drinking and fight ne
was the way to prepare for heaven. The
Bible has swept out all that, and now
the American, English and German live
in peace and safety. The Bible found
every father of family sole Judge and
executioner. If his son made him angry
he could kill him and no questions were
asked. Did his wife offend him or he
wanted change, he could kill her and
no one would interfere. The Bible
changed this, and ordered the son or
wife should have a trial, and fixed how
the trial should be conducted, and who
should be the judges. Surely this was
a gain in civilization.
The safety of our lives and property
depends On our civilization. It is well
not to describe in a newspaper the
Eleusis mysteries or the Worship Of
Venus, which gave way to the Bible.
but come TO recent history. In India !
wife had to be burnt alive on the funereaI
pile of her husband; children were, IS
an act of devotion, flung into the Ganges;
fathers were brought to the banks of the
sacred river, their mouths filed with
sacred mud, and left to die. The East
India Company were after money, and
they ordered that no officer in their EN-.
ploy should interfere in any way with the
religious acts of the natives. What did
it concern them that women and chill
dren persisted by the Thousands. They
wanted money. At length an officer
who could read the shasters found that
they contained nothing about suffice.
He was christian, and looked with
pity on burning widows. So long as
tied by his Office he dare not speak open.
ly. He had formed an acquaintance
with Bramin, called his attention to
the shasters, and that suttee was not
mentioned in them. Suffice it to say
that Bramin after Bramin was gained
over; that the struggle became public,
and the Company was forced by public
opinion to act. They passed law that
every widow should appear before aI
magistrate and certify that she was
willing to be burnt alive. It was soon
found that the women were stupefed
with drugs before taken to the maeis-
trate, and the voice of christianity said
it must be put stop TO. And the Com |
pany were driven to pass law abolish
ing suffice as far as their authority reach
ed; and now to burn widow alive, fling
3 child to the crocodiles OF choke . per- |
son with sacred mud would be murder
and be punished as such. This was q |
triumph for christians or the Bible, just |
as you please. Il