Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-04-06

they denounced it. All of Gods an
Gent 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
chastised within 1n inch of their lives.
Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshua,
Samuel, monogainists. But you say,
''Didn'U David and Solomon favor
polygamy?" Yes, and did they not get
well punished for it? 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
havior David suffered for his crimes
in the caverns of Adullam and Massada,
in the wilderness of Mahanaim, in the
bereavements Of Hiklag. 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 misbehavior
How did Solomon get along with
polygany Read his warnings in
Proverbs, read his self disgust in Ecclesi-
astes. He throws up his hand in loath
ing and cries out, Vanity of vanities,
ali is vanity" His seven hundred
wives nearly pestered the life out of
him Solomon got we'll paid for his
crimes-wen paid. | repeat that all
the mighty men of the Scriptures were
aIoof from polygamy, save as they were
pounded and failed and cut to pieces
for their insult to holy marriage. Ii
the Bible is friend of p0lygamy why
is it that in ali the lands where the BIZ
bic predominates polygamy is forbid
den, and in al the lands where there is
no Bible il is favored. Polygamy all
over China, all over India, all over At
rica all over Persia, all over heathen-
dom, save as the missionaries have
done their work; while polygamy does
not exist in England and the United
States, except in defiance of law. The
Bible abroad, God hOnOred monog-
amy. The Bible not abroad, God
polygamy.
BEAUTIFUL BIBLE PICTURES OF wo-
MAN.
Another false charge which infidelity
has made against the Bible is that it is
to woman; that it enjoins
her degradation and belittles her mis-
sion. Under this impression many
women have been overcome by the
plague of infdelity. Is the Bible the
enemy Of woman? Come into the
picture gallery, the Louvre, the Lux
embourg of the Bible, and see which
pictures are the more honored. Here
is Eve, a perfect woman, as perfect
woman as could be made by Il perfect
God Here is Deborah, with her
wOmanly arm hurting a host into the
battle. Here is Miriam, leading the
the Red sea Here is mOtherly Han
nah, with her own loving hand replen-
ishing the wardrobe of her son Samuel,
the prophet Here is Abigail, kneel-
ing at the foot of the mountain until
the four hundred wrathful men. ut the
sight of her beauty and prOwess, halt,
halt-a hurricane stopped at the sight
of a water lily, a dewdrop dashing
back Niagara. Here is Ruth. putting
to shame all the modern slang about
mOtherS-in-law as 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 hus-
bands mother Ruth, the queen of
the harvest fields; Ruth, the grand
mother of David; Ruth, the ancestress
of Jesus Christ The story of her vir-
tues and her life sacrifice the most
beautiful pastoral ever written. Here
is Vashti defying the bacchanal of a
thousand drunken lords, and Esther
willing to throw her life away that she
may deliver her people. And here is
DOrcas, the sunlight of eternal fame
gliding her philanthropic needle, and
the woman, with perfume in n box
made from the hills of Alabastron.
pouring the holy chrism on the head of
Christ, the aroma lingering all down
tie corridor of the centuries. Here is
Lydia, the merchantess of Tyrian pur-
pie, immOrtalized for her Christian be
haviOr. Here is the widow with two
mites, more famous than the Peabodys
and the LenoXes of all the ages, while
here comes in, slow of gait and with
careful attendants and with espe-
cial honor and high favor, leaning on
the arm of inspiration, one who is the
joy and pride of any home so rarely
fortunate to have one, an old Christian
Grandmother Lois Who
has more worshipers today than any
being that ever lived on earth except
Jesus Christ? Mary. For what pur-
pose did Christ perform his first miracle
upon earth! To relieve the embarrass-
ment of a womanly housekeeper at the
falling short Of a beverage Why did
Christ break up the silence of the tomb,
and tear off the shrc I'd, and rip up the
rocks? 1t was to stop the bereavement
Of the two Bethany listers. For whose
comfort was Christ 1uost anxious in the
hour of dying eXcruciatiOn? For a
woman, an old woman, Il wrinkle faced
woman VINO in other day.
had held him in her arms, his first
friend, his last friend, as it is very apt
20 be-his mother All the pathos Of
5he ages compressed into one utterance, |
Behold thy mother" Does the Bible |
woman?
A KNOW-NOTHING AND A
DO-NOTHING.
There stands Christianity There |
stands infidelity. Compare what they |
nave done. Compare their resources.
There is Christianity, prayer on her
ip, benediction on her brow; both |
lands full of help for all who want |
help; the mother of thousands of col |
eyes; the mother of thousands of asy-
uns for the oppressed, the blind, the |
lick, the lame, the imbecile; the mother
# missions for the bringing back of |
he outcast; the mother of thou
ands of reformatory institutions for
he saving of the lost; the mother
# innumerable Sabbath schools bring
ne millions of children under drill to
prepare them for responsibility and
lsefulness, to say nothing of the great |