Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-04-07

OF next month E0uybJOue lighthouse,
Bell Rock lighthouse SheTyvore light
house, Montauk lighthouse, Hatteras
lighthouse, New London lighthouse,
Barnegat lighthouse, and the six hun
dred and forty lighthouses on the At
lantic and Pacific coasts are to be ex-
tinguishedl oh" you say, what
will become of the ships on that night
What will be the fate of the one million
sailors following the scar What will
be the doom of the millions of passen-
gers7 Who will arise to put down such
a conspiracyT Every man, woman
and child in America and the world.
But that is only a fable. That is what
infldelity is trying to do, put out all the
letting the soul go up the ''Narrows'
of death with no light, no comfort, no
peace-all that coast covered with the
blackness of darkness. Instead of the
great lighthouse, a glowworm of wit, a
FREELY of jocosity. Which do you like
the better, . voyager for eternity-the
FREELY or the Hghthouse2
What mission infidelity has started
on The eXtinguishment of lighthouses,
the breaking up of lifeboats, the dis
missal Of all the pilots, the turning OF
the inscription on your child's grave
into farce and lie. Walter Scott
Old Mortality chisel in hand, went
through the land to cut into palmer
Io4to.. .I,,, hoIf ,,bI;to.otaI ;neori,,4;one
on the tombstones, and it was a beau
tiful mission. But infidelity 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 Abbey.
Instead of Christian consolation for the
! dying, freezing sneer. Instead OF
prayer, grimace. Instead of Paul's
triumphant defiance of death, going
out you know not where, to stop you
know not when, to do you know not
what. That is infdelity.
FOLLY OF THE PoLYGAMIsT's CLAIM
Furthermore, l cannot be an infidel
because of the false charges infdelity
is all the time making against the
| Bible Perhaps the SANDER that has
made the most impression and that
some Christians have not been intelli-
gent enough to deny is that the
Bible favors polygamy Does the God
of the Bible uphold polygamy, or did
he9 How many wives did God make
for Adam? He made one wife. Does
not your common sense tell you when
God started the marriage institution he
started it as he wanted it to continue 2
If 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 antagonistic to polygamy, Gen
esis ii, "a, Therefore 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 arkl Two and two
the birds; two and two the cattle; two
and two the lions; two and two the
human race, If the God OF the Bible
had favored q multiplicity of wives he
would have spared 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 polygamy2 In Leviticus xviii,
Is, God thunders his prohibition of
more than one wife.
God permitted polygamy Yes; just
as he permits today 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 themi
Because the presidents of the United
States have permitted polygamy in
Utah you are not, therefore, to con
clude that they patronized it, that they
| approved it, when, on the contrary,
they denounced it. All of Gods an
cient Israel knew that the God of the
Bible was against polygamy, 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 aloof from polygamy except
those who, falling into the crime, were
chastiscd within an inch of their lives
Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshua,
Samuel, monogamiStS, But you say,
Didn't David and solomon favor
polygamyr Yes and did they not get
well punished for itl Read the lives of
those two men, and you will come To
! the conclusion that all the attributes
of Gods nature were against their be.
havor David suffered for his crimes
IN the caverns of Adullam and Massada,
in the wilderness Of Mahanaim, in the
bereavements of Ziklag. The Bedouins
after him, sickness after him, AbSalom
after him, Ahithopel after him, Adoni.
iah after him, the Edomites after him,
the Syrians after him, the Moabites
after him, death after him, the Lord
God Almighty after him. The poorest
| peasant in all the empire married to
the plainest Jewess was happier than
the king IN his marital misbehayior.
How did Solomon get along with
polygMny. Read his warnings In
/ Proverbs, read his self disgust in EecleSi
] ,.t,s Ia throws nm his hon1 a, l,otb