Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-04-09

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Now in this POPULARITY of infidel thinkers
cannot join, and | propose to give you
some reasons why cannot be an infidel
and SO will try to help out of this present
condition any who may have been struck
with the awful plague of skepticism.
First, cannot be an infidel because in
hdelity has no good substitute for the CON
ISOLATION 1t proposes to take away. You
know there are millions of people who get
their chief consolation from this book.
What would you think of crusade of this
sort? Suppose man should resolve that
he would organize a conspiracy to destroy
all the medicines from all the apothecaries
and from all the hospitals of the earth
The work is done. The medicines are
taken, and they are thrown into the river,
or the lake, or the sea-
patient wakes up at midnight in par
oxysm of distress, and wants an anodyne.
oh, says the nurse, 1.-THE anodynes are
all destroyed; we have no drops to give
you, but instead of that I'll read you
book on the absurdities of morphine and
ON the absurdities of all remedies" But
the man continues TO writhe in pain, and
the nurse says: "Pll continue to read you
some discourses on anodynes, the cruelties
of anodynes, the indecencies of anodynes,
the absurdities of anodynes. For your
groan I'll give you laugh"
ALAS! FOR THE soRRowING.
Here in the hospital is a patient hayinga
gangrened limb amputated. He says: "Oh,
for etherl Oh, for chloroform!" The doc
tors say; "Why, they are all destroyed; we
don't have any more chloroform or ether,
but | have got something great deal bet
ter I'll read you a pamphlet against
James Y. Simpson, the discoverer of chloro-
form as an anasthetic, and against Drs.
Agnew and Hamilton and Hosack and
Mott and Harvey and Abernethy." "But."
says the man, II must have some anas-
;hetics." mo" say the doctors, "they are
Ill destroyed, but we have got something
great deal better" "What is thatS"
Fun" Fun about medicines. Lie down,
Ill We patients in Bellevue hospital, and
Itop your groaning all we broken hearted
If all the cities, and quit your crying; we
iave the catholicon at last
Here is dose of wit, here is strength
ming plaster of sarcasm, here is bottle
If ribaldry that you are TO keep well shaken
Up and take "A spoonful of it after each
neal, and if that does not cure you here is
solution of blasphemy in which you may
1athe, and here is a tincture of derision
Tickle the skeleton of death with repair.
uee Make the King of Terrors cacklel
For all the agonies of all the ages jolel
Millions of people willing with uplifted
hand toward heaven to affirm that the
yoepel Of Jesus Christ is full Of consolation
for them, and yet iniidelity proposes to
take it away, giving nothing absolutely
nothing, except fun. Is there any greater
height or depth or length or breadth or inn
mensity of meanness in all Gods uniyersei
Infidelity is a religion of Don't know"
Is there Godp Don't knowl Is the soul
immortalY Don't know If we should
meet each other in the future world will we
recognize each other? Don't know A re-
lgion of don't know" for the religion Of
II know" 81 know in whom | have be-
leved,n 81 know that my Redeemer liv-
eth" Infldelity proposes to substitute a
religion of awful negatives for our religion
OF glorious positives, showing right before
us a world of reunion and ecstasy and high
companionship and glorious worship and
stnpendous victory, the mightiest joy of
earth not high enough to reach to the base
of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor
awaiting all those who on wing of Chris
tian faith will soar toward it,
Have you heard of the conspiracy to put
out all the lighthouses on the coast9 Do
you know that on a certain night of next
month, Eddystone lighthouse. Bell Rock
lighthouse, Sherryvore lighthouse, Mon
tauk lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse, New
London lighthouse, Barnegat lighthouse,
and the GAO lighthouses on the Atlantic
90 RI ha inc had
ooh" you say, "what will become of the
ships on that nights What will be the
fate Of the one million sailors following the
scar What will be the doom of the mil
lions of passengersi Who will arise TO put
down such a conspiracy" Every man, wo-
man and child in America and the world.
But that is only fable. That is what in
fidelity is trying to do-put out all the
lighthouses on the coast of eternity. letting
the soul 20 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, FREELY OF jocosty.
Which do you like the better, o voyager
for eternity, the FREELY or the lighthousei
What mission infidelity has started onl
The extinguishment of lighthouses, the
breaking up of lifeboats, the dismissal OF
all the pilots, the turning of the inscrip-
ton on yonr child's grave into farce and
lie. Walter Scott's "Old Mortality"
chisel in hand, went through Che land to
cut out into palmer letters the half obliter-
ated inscriptions ON the tombstones, and it
was a beautiful mission; but inideiIty
spends its time with hammer and chisel
irving 10 cut out from the tombstones OF
your dead all the story of resurrection and
heaven. It is the iconoclast of every will
age graveyard and of every city cemetery
and Of Westminster Abbey. Instead OF
Christian consolation for the dying. freez-
ing sheer. instead of prayer a grimace.
Instead of Paul's triumphant defiance of
death, a going out you know not where, TO
stop YOU know not when, to do you Know
not what. That is infidelity.
THE FALSE PLEAS OF INFIDELITY.
Furthermore. cannot be an iniidel, be-
cause of the false charges infideiity is all
the time making against the Bible. Per
hans the Islander that has mace the most
impression and that some Christians have
not been intelligent enough to deny Is that
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