The Red Cloud chief., 1891-04-17

after each meal, and IL that does o
cure you here Is o solution Of blasphemy
in which you may battle, and here is
tincture of derision.
Infdclity Is q religion OF Don't
know" Is there a God? Don't know,
Is the soul immortal? Don't know! II
we should meet each other in the future
world will we recognize each other3
Don't know! A religion Of don't
know for the religion of II know" 81
know in whom I have believed" Il
know that my Rsdeemcr liveth-"
Have you heard of the conspiracy 70
put out all the lighthouses on the coast?
DO you know that on q certain night
mex month Eddystone lighthouse, Bell
Rock Lighthouse, Sherryvore lighthouse,
Montauk lighthouse. Hatteras light
house. NewJ.ondon lighthouse, Barne-
gat lighthouse, and the Gao lighthouses
on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are
to be extinguished? 90" you say what
will become of the ships on hat night?
What will be the fate Of the n million
sailors following the sea? What will
be the doom of the millions of passen-
gers? Who will arise To put down such
q conspiracy" Every man, woman and
child in America and the world. But
that is only a fable. That IL what in
fidelity is trying TO do, put out all the
lighthouses on the coast Of eternity,
letting the soul 60 up the "narrows" of
death with no light, no comfort, no
pcace-all that coast covered with the
blackncss Of darkness Instead Of the
great lighthouse, n glow worm Of wit,
a fircfy of jocosity. Which do you like
the better. o voyager for eternity-the
firefy Or the lighthouse? What a mis-
| sion infdelity has started on!
Furthermore, ! canno be an infdel
because Of the false charges infidelity
is all the time making against the
Bible. Perhaps the Islander hat has
made the most impression and that
some Christians have not been intelli-
gent enough to deny IL that the Bible
favors polygamy. Does the God of the
Bible uphold polygamy, or did he?
How many wives did God make for
Adam? lie made n wife. Does not
your Common sense tell you when God
started the marriage institution he
started II as he wanted il 10 continue?
II God had favored polygamy he could
have created for Adam five wives or ten
wives or twenty wives, just as easily "a
he made one. At the very first Of the
Bible God shows himself in favor of
~inonogamy and a~ntagonistic to polyg-
amy. Genesis ii. "a: Therefore shall a
man leave his father and mother, and
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wives. but his wife.
God permitted polygamy. Yes; just
rs he permits to-day murder and arson
and all kinds OF crime. He permits
these things rs you well know, but he
docs not sanction them. Who would
dare TO say he sanctioned them? Be
cause 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 il when. on the contrary they
denounced il All OF Gods ancient
Israel knew that the God of the Bible
was against polygamy, for in the s3O
years of their stay in Egypt there is only
one case of polygamy rccorded-only
me All the mighty men of the Bible
stood aloof from polygamy, except those
who, falling into the crime, We're chas-
tised within an inch of their lives. Adam,
Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshua, Samuel,
monogamists. But you say: Didn't
David and Solomon favor polygamy?'
Yes, and did they not get well punished
for il? Read the lives of those two
men, and You will come TO the con-
clusion that all the t->ributcs of Gods
nature were against their behavior.
How did Solomon get along with
polygamy? Read his warnings In
Proverbs, read his self-disgust In Eccle-
s~iastcs. lie throws up his hands in
loathing, and cries out: VANITY OF
vanitics, all is vanity" His 200 wives
nearly pcstcrcd the life out Of him.
Solomon got well paid for his crimes
well paid. ! repeat that all the mighty
men of the Scriptures were aloof from
polygamy, save rs they were pounded
and failed. and cut to pieces for their
insult Ia holy marriage. IL the Bible
is the friend of polygamy why is IL that
in all the lands where the Bible pre-
dominates, polygamy Is forbidden. and
in the lands where there Is no Bible II
is favored?
Another false charge which infidclity
has made against the Bible is that il is
an~tagonistic to woman; that II e%njoins
her degradation and belittles her mis-
sion. Under this impression many
women have been overcome with this
plague of infidelity. Is the Bible the
enemy Of woman? Come into the pict-
ure gallery, the louvre, the Luxcm-
bourg Of the Bible. and see which pict-
urcs are the more honored. Here is Eve.
n perfect woman, As perfect n woman
as could be made by n perfect God.
Here is Deborah. with her womanly
arm hurting n host into the battle.
Here is Miriam, leading the Israelitish
orchestra on the banks of the
Red Sea Here is motherly Hannah.
with her w loving hand rcplen-
ishing the wardrobe of her son
Samuel, the prophet Here is Abb
gail, knccling at the foot of
the mountain until the 400 wrath
full men. at the sight of her beauty
and prowess, halt, halt-a hurri-
cane stopped Mt the sight Of a water
lily, q dewdrop dashing back Niagara.
Here is Ruth, putting tn shame all
the modern slang about mothers-in-law
rs she turns her back on her home and
her country, and faces wild beasts and
exile and death. that she may be with
Naomi, her husbands mother, Ruth.
the queen of the harvest fields. Ruth.
the grandmother of David. Ruth. the
ancestrcss Of Jesus Christ The story
Of her virtues and her life sacrifice the
most beautiful PASTORAL ever written.
Here is Nashti, defying the bacchana
Of 1000 drunken lords, and Esther will
ing la throw her life away that she
may deliver her people. And here is
Dorcas. the sunlight of eternal fame.
gliding her philan,hropic needle. and
the woman with perfume in a box made
from the hills of Alabastron, pouring
the holy chrism on the head of Christ,
the aroma lingering all down the corri-
dor of the centuries. Here is lydia.
the merchantess of Tyrisn purple. i'm
mortali,ed for her Christian behavior.
Here is the widow with two mites