Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-06


serts Suppose naa shecld resolve fsas
be wossla orsanise . conspiracy 10 destroy
a. the nsdio4ass frcn al the aposhscaries
al from sii the hospitals Of the earth.
The work Is aoae. Tie naelic.nes are
taken. aud they arc tkrown into the river,
or the lake. OF she 50
patient wakes up at midnight in par
oxysm Of distress. end wants "a sssSyseA
CO. says the MARS. THE anodsnss are
al des.rosed; Ne have no droEs 10 give
yoa. but inssxai Of THAI ~ reai you
book On The a1sur.sties Of morphine AID
on tAe ahs1rdities Of all remedies-" But
the man eostisues 70 writhe Ia pain. and
the nurse says; '-I'a oontsnne 10 read yoa
some alscoarses ON anoaynes. tho cruelties
OF anodynes, the indeoereiss Of snodynes,
the aesardities Of anotyneA For yoar
groan Ill give you a laugh"
ALAS. FOX THE soRRowrSo
Here in the hospital 10 . patieat hayfnea
eangrened limb smputssed Hsssys: .oh,
for etherl On. Tor chloroforsat' The doc
tors SAP Why, they AIRS ali destroyed; we
don't have any more chlorotorm or ether.
bus have got something great deal bet
ter. I'll Rad you . pamphlet against
James Y. Simpson, the disooyerer Of ehioro-
form as an aaasthetie. aud against DfsL
Asaew and Hamilton and Hossck and
Mott ard Harvey and Abernethy." But"
says the man, II Eluss have come anns-
theticN." no" say the doctors, ''they are
all destroyed. but we have get something q
Sun" Fun about medicines. Lie down.
all ye patients in Bellevue hospital aud
step your groauing: AL ye broken hearted
nf all ba s.if nd x.tfs
have the catholieon at last.
Here is dose of wit, here Is a strength
euing plaster of sarcasm. here is a bottle
OF ribaldry TINT you are to keep well shaken
up and take a spoonful Of it after each
meal, and il that does not cure you here 10
solution OF blasphemy In watch you may
battle, and kere Is a ti1cturc Of derision
Tickle the SIX sleton Of death with q repair
tee! Make tho King Of Terrors cackiel
For all tho agonies Il all the ages \ joke!
Millions of people willing with uplifted
hand toward heaven 70 affirm that the
goepel Of Jesus Christ Is full Of consolation
for them, AID yet infldelity proposes TO
take it away, giving nothing absolutely
nothing, except fun. Is there any greater
height or depth or length or breadth or i'm
mensity OF meanness in all Gods universes
Infdelity Il q religion OF Don't know"
Is there Gods Don't knowi Is the soul
immortal: Don't know II we should
meet each other IN the future world viii we
recognizes each other. Don't know. 4 re-
ligion Of don't know" for the religion Of
Il know,""I know in whom / have be-
licved," II know that my Redecmer liy-
eth" Inadelity proposes to substitute q
religion of awful negatives for our religion
OF glorious positives, showing right before
us a world OF reunion and ecstasy and high
companionship and glorious worship and
stnpendous victory, the mightiest JOY of
earth not high enough TO reach to the base
Of the Himalaya Of uplifted eplerdor
awaiting all those who on wing Of Chris
tian faith will soar toward 10.
Have you heard Of tho conspiracy to put
out all the lighthouses on the coasts Do
you know that on . certain night Of next
month, Eddystonc lighthouse, Bill Rock
lighthouse, Sherryvors lighthouse, Mon
tank lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse, New
London lighthouse, Barnegat lighthouse,
and the $40 lighthouses on the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts arc to be extinguisheds
"Oh," you say, what will become Of the
ships on that night What will be the
fate of the one million sailors following the
scar What will be the doom of the mil
lions of passengers. Who will arise to put
down such o conspiracy" Every man, wo-
man and child in America and the world.
But that Is only fable. That Is what in
fidelity is trying to do-put out all the
lighthouses on the coast Of eternity. letting
the soul go up the "Narrows" Of death
with no light, no comfort, no peace-all
that coast covered with the b,ackness OF
darkness. Instead Of the great lighthouse,
n glowworm of wit, freely of jocosity.
Which do you like the better, o voyager
for eternity, the FREELY or the lighthouse,
What a mission infidelity has started on!
The extipgujshment Of lighthouses, the
breaking up Of lifcboats, tine dismissal Of
all the pilots, the turning Of the inscrip-
ton on your child's grave into farce and
a lie. Walter SCOTS "Old Mortality"
chisel In hand, went through the land to
cut out into palmer letters the half obliter-
ated inscriptions on the tombstones, and it
was beautiful mission: but infilelity
spends its time with hammer and chisel
trying to cut out from tho tombstoncs OF
your dead all the story of resurrection and
heaven. 1t il the iconoclast OF every will
age graveyard and Of every city Cemetery
aud OF Westminster Abbey. Instead Of
Christian consolation for the dying, freez-
ing sncer. Instead Of prayer grimace.
Instead Of Paul's triumphant defiance Of
death, going out you know not where, to
stop you know not when. to do you know
not what. That Is iniidelity.
TIE FALSE PLEAS OF rHF1DELrTY.
Furthermore: I cannot bc an infidel, be-
cause Of the false charges infldelity II sil
the time making against the Bible. Per-
haps the Islander that has made the most
impression and that sone Christians have
not been intelligent enough to deny IL that
the Bible favors polygamy. Does the God
OF tho Bible uphold polyRamy, or dii he,
How many wives did God make for Adami
He made one wife. Docs not your common
sense tell you when God started the mar
riago institution he started IL ~ he wants
ed It to continued II God had favored
polygamy he conld have created for Adam
fvo wives or ten wives or twenty wives
just ~ easily - he made one.
At the very FIRST OF the Bible God shows
himself In favor of monogamy and antaco-
nistic to poly gnmy. Genesis ii. 81, There
fore shall a man leave his father aud
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife"
Not hts wives, bat his wife. How many
wives did God spare for Noah in the ark
Two and two the birvls: two and two the
cattle: two and two the lions: two and two
the human race. II the God OF the Bible
had favored . multiplicity OF wives be
would have spared n plurality Of wives.
When God first launched the human race
he gave Adam one wife. At the second
launching Of the human rsce he spares for
Noah one wife, for Ham one vito. for Sher,
one wife. for Js2het one wife. DOES that
look - though God favored poiyesmy'
In Leviticus xviii, IS, God thunder bis