The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-04-15

who get their chief consolation from this
book. What would you think of a cru
sade ofthis sort? Suppose man should
resolve that he would organize a con-
spiracy to destroy all the medicines from
all the apothecaries and from all the hos
'pitals of the earth. The work IS done.
The medicines are taken and they are
thrown into the river, or the lake, or the
sea. 4 patient wakes up at midnight
in paroNysm Of distress, and wants an
anodyne. oh" says the nurse, ''the
anodynes are all destroyed; we have no
drops to give you, but instead Of that I'll
read YOU book on the absurditles OF
morphine, and on the absurdities of all
remedies" But the man continues to
writhe in pain, and the nurse says: ''pll
continue to read you some discourses on
anodynes, the cruelties of anodynes, the
indecencies of anodynes, the absurdities
Of anodynes. For your groan, I'll give
you laugh" Here in the hospital is
patient having gangrened limb ampu-
tated. He says, ''Oh, for ether. Oh,
for chloroform." The doctor says,
'sWhy, they are all destroyed; we don't
have any more chloroform, or ether; but
have gotsomething a great deal better.
I'll read youa pamphlet against James
y. Simpson, the discoverer Of chIoro-
form as an anesthetic, and against Doc
tors Agnew, and Hamilton, and Hosack,
and Mott, and Harvey, and Abernethy."
But" says the man, II must have
some anesthetics." NO." says tbs
doctors, ''they are all destroyed, but we
have cot something great deal better" "
"What is that:n Fun" Fun about
medicines. Lie down, all ye patients
in Bellevue hospital and stop your
sroaning-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 Strengthening plaster OF
sarcasm, here is bottle Of ribaldry that
you are to keep well shaken up and take
a spoonful Of it alter each meal, and if
that does not cure you, here is a solution
of blasphemv in which you may bathe,
and here is tincture OF derision. Tick
le the skeleton of death witty repartee!
Make the King of Terrors cackle! For
all the agonies of ali the ages, joke!
Millions of people willing with uplitted
hand toward heaven to affirm that the
Gospel of Jesus Christ is full of conso-
lation for them, and yet intidelity pro-
poses to take it away, giving nothing,
absolutely nothing except fun. Is there
any greater height, or depth. or length,
or breadth or .mmensity of meanness in
all Gods unlver:e!
Infdeli.y is a religion of "Don't
know" Is there God? Don't know.
Is the soul immortal? Don'tknow. If
we should meet each other in the future
world will we recognize each other?
Don't know! \ religion of''don't know'
f,r the religion Of u know" II know
in whom l have believed" 81 know
that my Redeemer liveth." Infdelity
proposes to substitute a religion Of aw-
tul negatives for our religion Of glorious
positives showing right before US world
ofreunion and ecstasy, and high com.
panionship, and glorious worship, and
stupendous victory; the mightiest JOY of
earth not high enough to reach to the
base of the Himalaya Of uplifted splen-
dor awaiting all those who IN wing OF
Christian faith will soar toward it.
Have you heard of the conspiracy to
put out all the lighthouses on the coast9
Do you knoH that on certain night OF
next month, Eddystone lighthouse, Bell
Rock lighthouse, Sherryvore lighthouse,
Montauk lighthouse, Hatteras light
house, New London lighthouse, Barne-
cat lighthouse, and the 640 lighthouses
on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are to
be extinguished9 s'Oh," you say, ''what
will become of the ships on that night ?
What will be the fate Of the one million
sailors following the sea? What will be
the doom Of the millions of passengers ?
Who will arise to put down such con-
spiracy:" 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
90 up the s'Narrows" Of death with no
light, no comfort, no peace-all that
coast covered with the blacklist Of dark
ness. Instead Of the great lighthouse, a
glowworm Of wit, a FREELY OF jocosity.
Which do you like the better, 0 Voyager
for eternity-the FREELY or the lighthouse?
What mission inidelity has started
OF! The extinguishment Of lighthouses,
the breaking up of lifeboats, the dismis-
sal of all the pilots, the turning Of the in
cription on your child's grave into a farce
and lie. Walter Scott's sold Mortal
ity,n chisel in hand, went through the
land to cut out into palmer letters the
half obliterated inscriptions on the tomb
stones, and ii was beautiful mission.
But infdel;ty spends it's time with ham,
mer and chisel trying to cut out from the
tombstones Of your d, ad all the story OF
resurrection and heaven. It is the Icon
ociast of every village graveyard, and OF
every city cemetery, and Of Westmn-
ster Abbey. Instead of Christian con-
ISOLATION for the dying, a freezing sneer:
Instead of prayer, a grimace. Instead
of Paul's 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 lDfdelity.
Furthermore: I cannot be an lntidel,
because of the false charges intidelity IS
all the time making against the Bible.
Perhaps the SANDER that has made the
most impression and that some Chris
tians have not been intelligent enough
to deny is that the Bible favors polyg-
amy. Does the God OF the Bible uphold
polysamy, 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
institution, he started it as he wanted
it continued? If God had favored poly
gamy he could have created for Adam
FIVE wives, or ten wives, OF twenty
wives, just as easily as he made one.
At the very first of the Bible God shows
himself in favor Of monogomy and an
tagonistic 10 polygamy. Genesis 2: "a:
Therefore shall man leave his father
and mother and shall cleaye unto his