The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-16

ing instantly to God and judgment II
was only a joke He thought il would
be such fun to stop the train. He
stopped 1t And so infldelity is chiefly
anxious to stop the long train of the
Bible, and the long train of the churches,
and the long train of Christian intlu-
ences, while coming down upon us are
death, Judgment and eternity, coming
a thousand miles minute, coming with
more force than all the avalanches that
ever slipped from the Alps, coming with
more strength than all the lightning
express trains that ever whistled or
shrieked or Numbered across the cont
nent.
THE LAUGHTER OF FOOLS.
Now, in this popularity of infidel
thinkers | cannot join, and propose
to give you some reasons why | cannot
be an infidel, and so will try to help
out of this present condition any who
may have been struck with the awful
plague of skepticism.
First, cannot be an infidel because
infidelity has no good substitute for the
consolation it proposes to take away.
You know there are millions of people
who get their chief consolation from
this book. What would you think of
crusade of this sorta Suppose man
should resolve that he would organize
conspiracy to destroy all the medi-
cines from all the apothecaries and
from all the hospitals of the earth. The
work is done The medicines are taken
and they are thrown into the river, or
the lake, or the sea-
A patient wakes up at midnight in
paroxysm 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 alb
surditics of morphine and on the alb
surdties of all remedies But the man
continues to writhe in pain, and the
nurse says: ''fll continue to read you
some discourses on anodynes, the cruel
ties of anodynes, the indecencies of
anodyncs, the absurdities of anodynes.
For your groan I'll give you laugh"
Here in the hospital is patient having
gangrened limb amputated. He says:
'Oh, for etherl Oh, for chloroformw
The doctors say why, they are all
destroyed, we don't have any more
chloroforIn, or ether; but l.have got
something great deal better I'll read
you a pamphlet against James Y. Simp
son, the discoverer of chloroform as an
an;esthetic, and against Doctors Agnew
and Hamilton and Hosack and
Mott and Harvey and Abernethy."
But" says the man, Il must have
some anpsthetics. No" say the
doctors, they are all destroyed,
but we have got something
great deal better" What is that2"
Gun" Fun about medicines Lie
down, all ye patients in Bellevue hos,
pital, and stop your groaning; all ye
broken hearted of all the cities, and
quit your crying; we have the cathol-
| icon at last Here is a dose of wit;
here is strengthening plaster of sar-
casm; here is bottle of ribaldry that
| you are to keep well shaken up and
take spoonful of it after each meal,
and if that does not cure you, here is a
solution of blasphemy in which you
may battle, and here is a tincture of
dersion. Tickle the skeleton of death
with reparteel Make the King Of
Terrors cackle For all the agonies of
all the ages, a joke! Millions of people
willing with uplifted hand toward
heaven to affirm that the gospel of
Jesus Christ is full of consolation for
them, and yet intidelity proposes to
take it away, giving nothing, abso
lutely nothing, except fun. Is there
any greater height or depth or length
or breadth or immensely of meanness
in all Gods universe!
MISERY OF IGNORANT NO FAITH.
Infidelity is religion of Don't
know" Is there Code Don't know
Is the soul immortal? Don't knowl II
we should meet each other in the fut-
ure world will we recognize each otheri
Don't know religion of Don't
know" for the religion of II know" II
know in whom l have believed" 81
know that my Redeemer livcth" In.
fidelity proposes to substitute 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 wor-
ship and stupendous victory; the
mightiest Joy on earth not high enough
to reach to the base of the Himalaya Of
uplifted splendor awaiting all those
who on wing Of Christian faith will
soar toward it.
Have you heard of the conspiracy tc
put out all the lighthouses on the coast
Do you know that on certain night
of next month Eddystone lighthouse,
Bell Rock lighthouse, Sherryvore light
house, Montauk lighthouse, Hatteras
lighthouse, New London lighthouse,
Barnegat lighthouse, and the six hun
dred and forty lighthouses on the At
lantic and Pacific coasts are to be ex
tinguished2 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 passen
gers2 Who will arise to put down sucf
conspiracy Every man, woman
|, and child in America and the world
But that is only fable That is wha
infidelity is trying to do, put out all tn,
lighthouses on the coast of eternity
letting the soul go up the "Narrows'
of death with no light, no comfort, n,
peace-all that coast covered with tn,
blackness of darkness. Instead of tn
great lighthouse, a glowworm of wit,
! FREELY of jocosity. Which do you ik
the better O voyager for eternity-th
FREELY or the lighthouse?
, What mission infidelity has starte
, on! The extinguishment of lighthouses
, the breaking up of lifeboats, the dis
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