The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-04-16

TWO AND TWO THE BIRDS;
two and two the cattle; two and two,
the lions; two and two the human.
race. II the God of the Bible had
favored a multiplicity of wives he
would have spared 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 18.
xviii, God thunders his prohibition of
more than one wife. -.
God permitted polygamy. Yes; lust
as He permits today murder and theft
and arson and all kinds of crime. He
permits these things as you we'll know,
but he does not sanction them. Who
would dare to say he sanctions them?
Because the presidents of the United
states have permitted polygamy in
Utah, you are not, therefore to con-
clude that they patronized it, that
they approved it, when, on the con-
trary, they denounced it.
Anotherfa false charge which infidelity
has made against the Bible is that it
is antagonistic to woman, that it en-
joins her degradation and belittles her
mission. Under this impression many
women have been overcome of this
plague Of infdelity.
Since you put the Bible on your
stand in the sitting-room; has the BIZ
bic been to you, O woman, a curse or
blessing? Why is it that a. woman
when she is troubled will 90 to her
worst enemy, the Bible? Why doyou
not 60 for comfort to some of the
great infdel books, Spizona's Ethics
or Hume's Natural History of Relig-
ion, or Paine's Age of Reason, or De-
dro's Dramas, or any one of the two
hundred and sixty volumes of VOL
talre? No, the silly, deluded woman
persists in hanging about the Bible
verses, 'Iet not your heart be
troubled" call things work together
for good" "Weeping may endure for a
night" IL am the resurrection"
"Peace, be STILL"
Furthermore, rather than invite l
resist
THIS PLAGUE OF INFIDELITY,
because it has wrought no positive
good for the world, and is always g.
hlndrance. [ ask you to mention the
names of the merciful and the educa-
t1onal institutions which infdelity
founded and is supporting, and has
supported against God and the Chris
tain religion, and yet pronounced in
behalf Of suffering humanity.
There stands Christianity. There
stands infidelity. Compare what they
have done. Compare their resources.
There is Christianity, a prayer on her
lips, a benediction on her brow: both
hands full of help for all who want
help; the mother of thousands of col
leges; the mother OF thousands of asy-
lums for the oppressed, the blind, and
sick, the lame, and imbecile; the moth
er OF missions for the bringing back Of
the outcast; the mother OF thousands
OF reformatory institutions for the
saving OF the lost; the mother OF in
Vulnerable Sabbath schools, bringing
millions of children under drill to
prepare them for responsibility and
usefulness, to say nothing of the great
future.
THAT Is CHRISTIANITY,
Here is Infdelity; no prayer on her
lips, no benediction on her brow, both
hands clenched-what for? To fight
Christianity. That is the entire bust
ness. The complete mission of inf
deity to fight Christianity. Suppose
you count on one finger the name OF
any institution founded by infdelity,
supported entirely by inf.delity, pro-
nounced against God and the Chris
tian religion, yet toiling to make the
world better. Not one! Not one!
lslntidelity so poor, SO starveling,,
so mean, so useless? Get out, YOU
miserable pauper of the universe!
Crawl into some rat hole of everlast-
ing nothingness. Infdelity standing
today amid the suffering, grooming,
dying nations and
YET DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING,
save trying to impede those who are
toiling until they fall exhausted in
to their graves in trying to
make the world better. Gather
up all the work, all the merci-
full work, that infdellty has
ever done, add it altogether, and
there is not SO much nobility in it as
in the smallest bead of that sister OF
charity who last night went up the
dark alley of the town, put a jar OF
jelly for an invalids appetite on a
broken stand, and then knelt on the
bare floor, praying themercy OF Christ
upon the dying soul.
But thank God that this plague
OF infidelity will be stayed. Many of
those who hear me now by the Holy
Ghost upon their hearts will cease to
be scoffers and will become disciples,
and the day will arrive when all ma
tions will accept the scriptures. The
book is going to keep right on until the
fires of the last day are kindled.
Some of them will begin on one side
and some on the other side of the old
book. They will not find bundle OF
loose manuscripts easily consumed
like finder thrown into the fire. When
THE FIRES OF THE LAST DAY
are kindled, some will burn on this
side, from Genesis towards Revela-
ton, and in all their way they will
find a single chapter or single verse
out OF place. That will be the first
time we can afford to do without the
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