Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-24


| destroyed; we have no drops to give you,
but instead Of that ri read YOU a boo, on
the absurdlties Of morphine and tue bsur-
dities OF all remedies" But the man con1in-
ues to writhe i'll pain, ami the nurse says:
''Pll continue to rea you some diScOurSes on
anodynes, the crueites OF anodyues the in
decencies OF aEodynes, the aosurdities OF
anodynes For your groan I'll give yo:
laugh"
Here in the hospital is patient having a
gangrened limb anputated. He 7ays: "Oh,
for ether! Oh, for chloroform." The doc
tor says: why, they are all destroyed; we
don't have any more chloroform or ether,
bet have got something great deal bet
ter. III read you pamphlet against
James Y. Simpson, the discoverer Of chloro-
form as an anRsthetic, and against Drs. Ag.
new and Hamilton and Hosack and Mott
and Harvey and Abernethy." But" says
the man, Il must have some anesthetics"
NO" says the doctor, they are all de-
stroyed, but we have got something great
deal better" 'What is thats" Fun
Fun about medicines. Lie down, ali ye pa.
tients in Bellevue Hospital and stop your
grooming, all ye broken hearted of all the
cities, and quit your crying; we have the
catholicon at last.
Here is dose of wit here is a strengthen
ing plaster Of sarcasm, here is bottle Of
ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken up
and take spoonful of it after each meal
and if that does not cure you here is a solu-
ton of blasphemy in which you NAV battle,
and here is tincture of derision. Tickle the
skeleton Of death with repartee! Make the
King Of Terrors cackle! For all the agonies
of all the ages a joke! Millions of people
willing with uplifted hands toward heaven
to affirm that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is
full Of consolation for them, and yet infidel-
itY proposes to take it away, giving nothing,
absolutely nothing, excapt fun. Is thereany
greater height or depth or length or breadth
or immensely or meanness In all Gou's UNI
verse;
Infidelity is religion of Don't know"
Is there God? Don't know! Is the soul
immortal? Don't knowI II 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 hveth." Inf
deity proposes to substitute a religion Of
awful negatives for our religion OF glorious
positives, showing right before us a world OF
reunion and ecstacy and high companionship
and glorious worship and stupendous vic
tory, the mightiest joy of earth not high
enough to reach to the base of the Himalaya
of uphfted 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 coast? Do you
know that on a certain light 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 be extinguished? 'Oh," you
say, what will become Of the ships on that
night? What will ne the fate of the one
million sailors following the sea? What will
be the doom of the millions of passengers2
Who will arise to put down such . conspir-
acy?" Every man, woman and child in
America and the world. But that is only
fable That is what infdelity is trying to
do-put out all the lighthouses on the coast
of eternity, letting the soul go up the 'Nar-
rows'"of death with no light, no comfort, no
peace-an that coast covered with the black
ness of darkness. Instead of the great light
house, a glowworm of wit, a freely of jocos-
itv. Which do you like the better, 0 voy-
ager for eternity. the FREELY or the light
house?
What mission infidelity has started on!
The extinguishment of lighthouses the
breaking up of lifeboats, the dismissal of all
the pilots the turning of the inscription on
your child's grave into farce and lie.
Walter SCOTS "Old Mortality" chisel in
hand, went through the land to cut out into
palmer letters the half obliterated inscrip-
tions on the tombstones, and it was a beau
tiful mission; but infdelity 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
Un0 uyluS,' d 1IOSLll1S Su0OI 1uSCedO VI
prayer a grimace. Instead of Paups
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 in
fidelity.
Furthermore: I cannot be an infidel, be-
cause of the false charges infidelity is all the
time making against the Bible. Perhaps the
SANDER 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 polygamy, or did He? How many
wives did God make for Adam? He 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? If God had favored polygamy He
could have created for Adam five wives or
ten wives or twenty wives just 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 IL, "a. There
fore shall a 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
and two the lions; two and two the human
J race. If the God of the Bible had favored
a multiplicity of wives He would have spared
q 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 polygamy? In Leviticus xviii,
IS, God thunders His prohibition of more
than enc wife.
God permitted polygamy. Yes; just as
He permits to-day's murder anu theft and
arson and all kinds of crime. He permits