Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-10

dlonS With pOlgOmy? Read his warnings !,
In Proverbs; read his self disgust in Ec-
cleslastes. He holds up his hands in loath-
Ing and cries out: "Vanity of vanities, |,
all is vanity" His seven hundred wives
nearly pcstered the life out of him.
Solomon got we'll paid for his crimes
we'll paid.
Scriptures We're aloof from poygamy,
save as they were pounded and failed
and cut to pieces for their insult to holy
marriage. If the Bible is the friend of
polygamy why is it that in all the lands
where the Bible predpminatcs polygamy
is forbidden, and in the lands where
there is no Bible it is favored. Polygamy
all over China. all over India, all over
Africa, all over heathendom, 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 honorcd
monogamy. The Bible not abroad. God
abhorrcd polygamy
Where are the asylums and merciful
institutions founded by nidelity and
supported by imfidclity, pronounced
| against God and the Bible, and yet doing
work for the alienation Of suffering?
lnfidelity is so very loud in its bragg
gadocio it must have some to mention.
Certainly, if you come to speak of
educational institutions it is not Yale, it
is not Harvard, it is not Princeton, it is
not Nliddetown, it is not Cambridge or
Oxford, it is not any institution from
which diploma would not be disgrace.
| DO you point to the German universities
as exceptions? have to tell you that
all the German universities to-day are
under positive Christian Influences, en-
cept the University OF Heidelberg, where
the ruffianly students cut and maui and
manglc and murder each other as a
matter of pride instead of infamy. DO
you mention Girard College, Philadelphia,
as an exception, that college established
by the will of Mr. Girard which forbade
religious instruction and the entrance of
clergymen within its gates. My reply is
that l lived for seven years near that
college and knew many of its professors
to be Christian instructors, and no better
Christian influences are to be found in
any college than in Girard' College.
! There stands Christianity. There
, stands infidelity. Compare what they
! have done. Compare their resources.
There is Christianity, a prayer Oh her
lip; a benediction on her brow; both
hands full of help for all who want
. help: the mothero thousands of colleges;
the mother of thousands of asylums for
the oppressed, tho blind, the sick, the
lame, the imbicle; the mother of missions
for the bringing back of the outcast; the
{ mother of thousands of reformatorY in
! situations for the saving of the lost: the
: mother of inumcrable Sabbath schools
| bringing millions of children under a
: drill to prepare them for responsibility
] nfJJIn tn nf In
; great future. That is Christianity.
Here is in!idclity; no prayer on hel
y lips, no benediction on her brow, boil
, hands clenched-what for? TO tigh
= Christianity. That is the entire bust
: ness. The complete mission of intidclt.
to fight Christianity. Where are he
81 schools, her colleges, her asylums o
G mercy? Let me throw you down Who'll
e ream Of foolscap paper that you may fiji
a all of it with the names of her bcncfcen
? institutions, the colleges, and TIL
,, asylums tho Institutions of mercy and c
II learning, founded by infidelty and sul
v ported alone by infdelity, pronounce
O against God and the Christian religion
s and yet in favor of making the worl
). better. sOh," you say, ''a ream c
# paper is too much for thcssnames of thos
l. Institutions Well, then, throw 20
l. quire of paper. Fill it all up now.
h will wait until you get all the name
If down. "Oh,' you say, s'that's tc
T. much" Well, then, will just hand 20
n sheet Of letter paper just fill up til
four sides while we are talking of tn
I matter with the names of the mercifl
is institutions and the educational institl
:. tions founded by infidelity and supporte
e all along by infidelty, pronounce
5 against God and the Christian religion
% yet in favor of humanity.
' ''Oh," you say, ''that IS too muc
J. room. We don't want a whole sheet {
d paper to write down the names.'' Pei
70 haps had better tear out one leaf frol
II my memorandum book and ask you to ii
y up both sides of it with the names {
IL such institutions. 'Oh,'' you say, ''tha
A. would be too much room. / wouldn
70 want so much room as that" Well, thel
# suppose you count them on your tie
fingers, ''Oh," you say, ''not quite S
"a much room as that" Well, then, cour
ID them on the fingers of one hand. ooh,
j. you say, eve don't want quite so muc
.. room as that" Suppose, then, you ha
is and count on one finger the name ola
w institution founded by inGdelity, SUI
IN ported entirely by infdclity, pronounce
70 against God and the Christian religion
70 yet toilng to make the world better
If Not one! Not one!
l. Is inidclity so poor, so starveling, S
Vi mean, so useless? Get out, you mscl
ST able pauper of the universe! Crawl Int
m some rathole of everlasting nothingnes!
10 Intidelity standing to-day amid the SUI
10 fcring, grooming, dying nations, and ye
10 doing absolutely nothing saw
Al trying to impede those VIII
a. are toiling until they fall c,
n hausted into their graves in trying t
"a make the world better. Gather up q
the work, all the merciful work, tina
ST nlidclity has ever done, add it all t.
fl gether, and there is not so much nobllit
Ie in it as in the smallest bead of that 81:
v ter of charity who last night went Il
10 the dark alley of the town. put jar {
- jelly for an invalid appetite on broke
I'd stand and then Lnelt on the bare floc
h. praying the mercy of Christ npon tn
,t dying soul.
ID Inlidclity scrapes no lint for tn
a. wounded; bakes no bread for the hungr.
ri shakes up no pillow for the sick, rouse
Is no comfort for the bereft, gilds no gray