The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-12-09
BILL ARP

BILL ARP
Discusses the Sanctity of Marriage and Of
the Sabbath.
Is marriage failures" We see
that question going around and being
discussed. If I knew what particular
marriage they are talking about maybe
I could answer. know several that
are failures. But as a general propo-
sition they might as well ask, SIS man
failure, is woman q failure, is crea-
ton a failure?"
But suppose marriage is a failure,
what are You going to do about it?
Mr.. Ingerson says unite the knot. Let
unite it for cause and woman
without cause. His precise language
is, II would give divorce to every
woman who wanted it whether the
man had violated the contract or not. :"
Surely he dident mean that. He
dident reflect on the consequences.
It is kind of "free love" that we
thought was abandoned even in New
England. It shocks the judgement
of sill mankind. What would become
OF the children if the mother was
permitted to change husbands at her
pleasures Maybe in her caprice she
would want some other woman's hus-
band and so destroy the peace and
happiness of that family. Mr.. Inger-
soils theory is to let every woman
float around loose until she found her
affinity, but sometimes a woman
loves a man who doesent love her;
what then? The poor fellow would
have to run away, I reckon, and if ne
was uncommonly good looking an
other woman would grab him on the
run-in fact, two or three might grab
him and fight over him, for the
scriptures do tell us Of time when
seven women shall take hold OF one
man. Good gracious! From such a
calamity good Lord deliver Us. Mr..
Ingerson ought to write book on
Divorces Made Easy" and tell us
what is to be done with the children
the poor little innocent things who
wouldent have any father to speak OF,
and hardly any mother; no happy
home, no parental training, no com
fort-for YOU see their mother might
be living with some other fellow.
MI. Ingerson says that parents make
mistake in bringing up children, in
stead of letting them grow" Was
there ever such theoretic nonsense
uttered by a learned and intelligent
man? We have all admired his beau
tiful expressions, his tenderness, his
sympathy, his exquisite pathos OF
thought, but his utterances in his
late lecture in Chicago would indicate
that the man has lost his reason. In
his desire to obliterate the Bible and
all its teachings, he makes a stab
at marriage and training up children
and at the Christian Sabbath. He
says that "a man who says the Colum-
bian Fair should be closed OF Sunday
is a monument of impudence." He
is welcome to his company, for every
bad man, every immoral woman,
every anarchist, every lawbreaker, is
on his side. On the other side are all
the great and good men of the centu-
ries that have passed from Milton and
Shakespeare down to Macaulay and
Gladstone. All the greatest philoso-
piers and poets of the past 200 years
stand as firm as rock upon the Bible
and its teachings, and it does not be-
come one man, however learned, to
array himself against them. To do
that a man must be monument OF
impudence." DR.. Samuel johnson,
the profoundest thinker and philoso-
pher, says:
"Relig gion, of which the rewards
are distant and which is animated
only by faith and hope, will glide by
degrees out Of the mind unless it be
inyieorated by external ordinances
and by stated calls to worship"
One man cannot destroy sanctity of
the Sabbath. It is strange that he
would wish to. Iheard a Jewish rab-
bi say in public lecture: Il do not
believe in your Christian religion.
It is not my faith nor the faith of my
fathers, but I would not live in any
but a Christian country, under Chris
tian laws and Christian rulers. A
Christian civilization has done more
for humanity and liberty and progress
that all others, and offers the best
protection to my children and my
property.
I do not believe that an agnostic or
in6del or gambler or cheat or swindler
if he has family would tear down
the spires of our churches or mufie
the sound of the Sabbath bells.
Every man, however self debased, has
a hope for the welfare cfhis children.
MIR. Ingersoll lectured on Liberty"
and in his enthusiasm over his subject
he wants every man and woman and
child to do as they please, especially
the women and children. he says
that ssmen are slaves, and women are
the slaves of slaves, and children are
something worse" If men are slaves,
who are the masters9 If there is any
slavery at my house Mrs. Arp does
emit know it, and every morning at
daybreak my rooster crows, woman
rules here" and I hear it echoed over