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

81, 81 coming With more strength than
ali vhe iishtning express trains that ever |
v, or shricked or thundcred across
the continent. ~ @'eA o''
~, Now in this iocularity of infdel
~. cannot join. And 1 propose
W. siNe you some reasons why | cannot
oc an lnndel, and so will try to help
ou. VI inns present condition any who
may nave been struck with the awful
plague of skepticism,
flrSt, l cannot be an infdcl because
innaeilty mas no good substitute for the
eohsoiatlon it proposes to take away.
. nou Know there are millions of people !
, VINO get lhclr chief consolation from this |
oooh' what would you think of a cru
sade OF TINS sort' Suppose man should |
resolve that he would organize a con-
splracy to destroy all the medicines from |
all the apothccaries and from all the
hospitals of the earth. The work is
Gone. The medicines are taken. and |
they are thrown into the river, or the
lake, or the sea.
A patient wakes up at midnight in a
paroNysm of distress, and wants an ano-
dyne "Oh, says the nurse, ''thc ano-
dynes are all destroyed; we have no
drops to give you, but instead of that I'll
read you book on the absurditics of all
remedies" But the man continues to
wrlthe in pain, and the nurse says: ''rll
continue to read you some discourscs on
anodyncs, the crueltcs of arodynes, the
lndeccncies of anodyncs, the absurdities
of anodynes. For your groan I'll give
you a laugh
Here in the hospital is a patient having
q gangrcned limb amputatcd. He says:
''Oh, for ethcri Oh, for chloroform!"
The doctors say: s'Why, they arc all
| destroycd we don't have any more chic
reform or ether, but | have got some
thinga great deal better. I'll read You a
pamphlet against James Y. Simpson, the
discoNcrer Of chloroform as an an;es-
thetic, and against Drs. Agncw and
Hamilton and Hosacl and Mott and
! Harvey and Abcrncthy." ''But," says
the man, Il must have some anas-
thctics.' ''No," say the doctors, 'sthey
are all destroyed, but we have got some-
thing a great deal BETTER" "What is
that?" ''Fun." Fun about medicines.
Lie down, all ye patients in Bellevue
hospital, and stop your groanng; all We
broken hearted of all the cities, and quit
your crying; we have the catholicon at
| last.
Here is dose of wit, here is a strength
ening plaster of sarcasm, here is a bottle
of ribaldry that you are to keep we'll
shaken up and take {, spoonful of it after
each meal, and if that does not cure you
hero is solution of blasphemy in which
you may battle. and here is a tincturc of
derson. Tickle the skeleton of death
with Il rcpartee Make the King of Ter
rors cacllle! For all the agonles of all
The ages joke! Millions of people will
ing with uplifted hand toward Heaven te
affirm that the gospel of Jesus Christ is
full of consolation for them, and yet in
fidelity proposes to take it away, giving
nothing absolutely nothing, except fun
Is there any greater height or depth OF
length or breadth or immensely OF mean
ness in all Gods universe?
Infdelity is a religion of "Don't know.
Is there God? Don't know! Is thu
soul immortal? Don't know! If WI
should meet each other in the futur,
world will we recognize each other
Don't know! A religion of s'don't know
for the religion of IL know" 81 know il
whom have believed . 81 know that N,
Redecmer livcth.' Intidelity proposes t.
substitute religion of awful negative
for our religion of glorious positiyes
showing the right before us world o
reunion and ecstacY and high companion
, ship and glorious worship and stupen
, deus victory, the mightiest joy of cart
| not high enough to reach to the base o
, the IImalaya of uplifted splendor await
/ ing all those who on wing of Chrstia
faith will soar toward it.
Furthermore: / cannot be an iniidel
| because of the false charges infdelity
/. all the time making against the Bible
, Perhaps the SANDER that has made tn
! most impression and that some Chris
' tians have not been intelligent enough t
/ deny is that the Bible favors polygamy
t Does the God of the Bible uphold polyga
. my, or did He? How many wives di
9 God make for Adam? He made on
/ wife. Does not your common sense tel
you when God started the marriage in
sttuton He started it as He wanted
f to continue? II God had favored polyga
: my He could have created for Adam tiv
G wives or ten wives or twenty wives jus
Il as easily as He made one.
+ At the very first of the Bible Go
: shows himself in favor of monogamy an
c antagonstic to pologamy. Genesis i
t "a, ..Therefore shall a man leave his ia
!. ther and mother and cleave unto hi
G wife, Not his wives, but his wife. HOY
!, many wives did God spare for Noah i
the ark? Two and two the birds; tw
: and two the cattle; two and two tn
o lions: two and two the human race.
t the God Of the Bible had favored mu
t tiplicity OF wives He would have spare
t multiplicity of wives. When God llrs
c launched the human race He gave Ada1
i one wife. At the second launching OF tn
j human race He spares for Noah on
J. wife, for Ham one wife, for Shcm on
S wife, for Japhct one wife. Does tina
look as though God favored polyg'
i my? In Leviticus xviii, IS, God thur
G ders His prohibition of more than on
v wife.
v God permitted polygamy. Yes; jus
l. as He permits to-day murder and the1
|: and arson and all kinds OF crime. III
J. permits these things, as you well know
II but He does not sanction them. VIII
j would dare to say He sanctions them
II Because the Presidents OF the Unite
g States have permitted polygamy IN Utal
It YOU are not, therefore, to conclude tina
II they patronized it, that they approve
1t it, when, on the contrary, they &C
u nounced it, All of Gods ancient lsrat
= ,.,,,,, +h,t thn Cod of the Bible wa