Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-04-17

the man, II must have some anasthetics" {"
"No," says the doctor, they are all de-
stroyed, but we have got something a great
deal better" "What is thatf' Fun
Fun about medicines. Lie down, all We pa
tients in Bellevue Hospital, and stop your
groaning. all We broken hearted OF alf tha
cities and quit your crying; We have the
catholicon at last
Here is a dose OF wit, here is a strengthen
ing plaster of sarcasm. hero is bottle OF
ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken up
and take a spoonful OF il after each meal
and IL that does not cure you here Is a solu-
ton OF blasphemy in which YOU NAV bathe.
and here is a tiucture of derision. Tickle the
.keleton Of death with a repartee! Make the
King of Terrors cackle! For all the agones
of all the ages a Joke! Millions of people
willing with uplifted hands toward heaven
to affirm that the Gospel of Jesus Christ Is
tull OF consolation for them. and yet infidel-
lty proposes to take it away, giving nothing,
absolutely nothing, except fun. Is there any
greater height or depth or length or breadth
or immensely OF meannesS in all Gods uni
verse!
Infdelity is a religion OF Don't know
Is there Godi Don't know! Is the soul
lmmortall Don't know! IL We should meet
each other in the future world will we recog-
niZe each other' Don't know A religion
OF don't know" for the religion of II
know" II know in whom have believed"
II know that my Redeemer liveth." Inf
deity proposes TO substitute religion OF
awful negatives for our religion of glorious
positives, showing right before us a world OF
reunion aud ecstacy and high companionship
and glorious worship and stupendous vic
tory, the mightiest JOY Of earth not high
enough TO reach 10 the base OF the Himslaya
Of uplifted splendor awaiting all those who
on wing OF Christian faith will soar toward
It,
Have you heard Of the conspiracy to put
out all the lighthouses on the coasti Do you
know that on certain night OF next month,
Eddystone lighthouse Bell Rock lighthouse
Sherryvore lighthouse, Montauk lighthouse,
Hatteras lighthouse. New London light
house, Barnegat lighthouse, and the $40
lighthouses on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts are to bc extnguishedi oh" you
say, what will become of the ) ips on that
night What will be the fate of the one
million sailors following the seal What will
be the doom OF the millions OF pnssengersl
Who will arise to put down such conspir-
acyT Every man, woman and child in
America and the world But that is only
fable. That is what intldelity is trying to
do-put out all tho lighthouses on the coast
Of eternity, letting the soul go up the Mar
rows" OF death with no light, no.comfort, no
peace-all that coast covered with the black
ness OF darkness. Instead of the great light
house, a glowworm OF wit a FREELY OF jocos-
ity Which do you like the better, o voy-
sger for eternity, the firefy or the light
house'
What mission infidelity has started on
The extinguishment OF lighthouses the
breaking up of lifcboats, the dismissal of all
the pilots the turning OF the inscription on
your child's grave into a farce and a lie.
Walter Scutts "Old Mortality chisel in
hand, went through the land to cut out into
palmer letters the half obliterated inscrip-
tons ON the tombstones, and it was beau
tiful mission: but inidelty spends its time
with hammer and chisel trying to cut out
from the tombstones Of your dead all the
story OF resurrection and heaven. 1t is the
iconoclast OF every village graveyard and Of
every city cemetery and OF Westminster Alb
hey. Instead OF Christian consolation for
the dying freezing sneer. Instead OF
prayer a grimace. Instead OF PauPs
triumphant defiance of death, going out
you know not where, 10 stop you know not
when, to do you know not what, That ID in
fidelity.
Furthermore | cannot be an in6del, be-
cause Of the false charges intldelity Is all the
time making against the Bible. Perhaps the
slander that has made the most impression
and that some Christians have not been in
telligent enough TO deny is that the Bible
favors polygamy. Does the God of the Bible
uphold poiygamy, or did He' How many
wives did God make for Adam' Ho made
one wife Does not your common sense tell
you when God started the marriage institu.
ton He started it as He wanted it to con
tinue' IL God had favored polygamy He
could have created for Adam five wives or
ten wives or twenty wives just as easily as
| He made one.
| At the very first OF the Bible God shows
Himself In favor OF monogamy and antago-
nistic to polygamy. Genesis H., "a. There
fore shall man leave his father and mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife" Not his
wives, but his wife. How many wives did
| God spare for Noah in the ark Two and
/ two the birds; two and two the cattle: two
ami two the lions; two and two ths human
race. II the God Of the Bible had favored
/ a multiplicity OF wives He would have spared
a plurality of wives. When God first
launched the human race He gave Adam
one wife At the second launching of the
human race He spares for Noah one wife, for
Ham one wife, for Shem one wife, for
Japhet one wife Does that look as though
God favored polygamyf In Leviticus xviii,
! ls God thunders His prohibition Of more
than cne wife.
God permitted polygamy. Yes; just as
He permits to-day's murder and theft and
arson and all kinds of crime. He permits
these things, as you well know but He does
not sanction them. Who would dare to say
He sanctions themf Because the Presidents
OF the United States have permitted poly
gamy In Utah, you are not therefore, TO con
clude that they patronized II, that they ap-
proved it when, on the contrary, they de.
nounced It, All OF Gods ancient Israel
knew that the God Of the Bible was against
poiygamy, for in the four hundred and thirty
years of their stay in Egypt there is only
one case of polygamy recorded only one
All the mighty men of the Bible stood alooi
from polygamy except those who, falling
into the crime, were classified within an incl
OF their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph
Joshua, Samuel, monogamists, But you say
"Didn'tDavida and Solomon favor pologamyr
Yes; and did they not get well punished fol
III
Read the lives Of those two men and yot
will come to the conclusion that all the at
tributes OF Gods nature were against thei
behavior. David suffered for his crimes il
the caverns Of Adullam and Massada in th
wilderness of Mahauaim, in the bereave
ments Of Ziklag. The Bedouins after him
sickness after him, Absalom after him
Ahithopel after him, Adonijah after him
the Edomites after him, tho Syrians afte
him, the Moabites after him, death afte
him. the Lord God Almighty after him
ried to the plainest Jewess was happier thai
the King in his marital misbehavior. Hoy
did Solomon get along with polygamy'
Read his warnings in Proverbs; read his self
disgust In Ecclesiastes. He throws up hi
hands in loathing and cries out, Vanity O
vauities, all is vanity" His seven hundre
wives nearly pestered the life out of hin
Solomon got we'll paid for his crimes-we
paid.
repeat that all the mighty men of tn
Scriptures we're aloof from polygamy, saw
as they were pounded and failed and cut
pieces for their insult to holy marriage.
the Bible is the friend of polygamy why Is
that In all the lands where the Bible pr'
dominates polygamy is forbidden, and in th
lands where there is no Bible it Is favored
Polygamy all over China, all over India, a
over Africa, all over Persia, all over heather
dom, save as the missionaries have don
their work, while polygamy does not exist