Milford chronicle., 1891-04-10


oxysm 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 a
book on the absurdities 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 indeceucies OF anodynes,
the ahsurdities Of anodynes. For your
groan I'll give You laugh"
ALAsl FOR THE soRROWING.
Here in the hospital is patient havinga
gangrened limb amputated. Hesays: cob,
for etheri On, for chloroforIni" The doc
tors say: "Why, they are all destroyed; we
don't have any more chloroform or ether,
but have got something great deal bet
ter I'll read you pamphlet against
James Y. Simpson, the discovererof chloro-
form as an anesthetic, and against Drs.
Agnew and Hamilton aud Hosaek and
Mott and Harvey and Abernethy." But"
says the man, Il must have some anes-
thetics ''No," say the doctors, 'they are
all destroyed, but we have got something
great deal better" "What is that?r
"Flln." Fun about medicines. Liedown,
all We patients in Bellevue hospital, aud
stop your grooming; all ye broken hearted
Of all the cities, and quit your crying; we
have the cathOlieon at lastl
Here is a dose Of wit, here is strength
ening plaster of sarcasm, here is a bottle
Of ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken
up and take a 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 tincture of derision.
Tickle the skeleton Of death with a repair
teel- Make the King of Terrors cacklel
For all the agOnies of all the ages a iOkel
Millions of people willing with uplifted
hand toward heaven to affirm that the
goepel of Jesus Christ is full Of consolation
for them, and yet infdelity 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 universe?
Iniidelity is a religion of Don't know"
Is there a God? Don't knowl Is the soul
immortal? Don't know If we should
meet each other in the future world will we
recognize each other? Don't knowl A re-
ligion of don't know" for the religion of
Il know" 81 know in whom I have be-
lieved" II know that my Redeemer liv- I
eth" Infdelity proposes to substitute a (
religion of awful negatives fOro religion /
of glorious positives, showing right before /
us a world of reunion and ecstasy and high /
eompanionship and glorious worship and /
stnpendous victory the mightiest joy of /
earth not high enough to reach to the base /
of the Himalaya of upltfted splendor I
awaiting all those who on wing of Chris .
tian faith will soar toward it,
Have you heard of the conspiracy to put /
out all the lighthouses on the coast? Do
you know that on a certain night of next
month, Eddystone lighthouse, Bell Rock
lighthouse, Sherryvore lighthouse, Mon
tauk lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse, New
London lighthouse, Barnegat lighthouse,
and the 64O lighthouses on the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts are to be extinguished?
"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 mil
lions of passengers? Who will arise to put
down such a conspiracy" Every man, wo-
man and child in America and the world.
But that is only a 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 blackness of
darkness Instead of the great lighthouse,
"a glOwworm of wit, a FREELY of iOeosity.
Which do you like the better, o voyager
for eternity, the FREELY or the lighthouses?
What a mission infdelity has started oni
The extinguishment of lighthouses, the
breaking up Of lifebOats, the dismissal of
all the pilots, the turning of the inserip
ton on your child's grave into a farce and
a lie Walter Scott's "Old Mortality"
chisel in hand, went through The land to
cut out into palmer letters the half obliter-
was beautiful mission; but infdeity /
spends its time with hammer and chisel
trying to cut out from the tombstones of
your dead all the story Of resurrection and I
heaven. 1t is the icOnoclast of every Will {
age graveyard and Of every city cemetery
and of Westminster Abbey. Instead of |
Christian consolation for the dying, freez-
ing sneer. Instead of prayer a grimace.
Instead of PauPs triumphant defiance of t
death, going out you know not where, to i
stop you know not when, to do you know {
not what That is infdelity. Y
THE FALSE PLEAS OF INFIDELITY.
Furthermore; L cannot be an infidel be- y
cause of the false charges inidelity is all 4
the time making against the Bible Per b
haps the Islander that has made the most t
impression and that some Christians have v
not been intelligent enough to deny is that a
the Bible favors polygamy. Does the God {
IF the Bible uphold polygamy, or did her a
How many wives did God make for Adams t
He made one WIFE Does not your common y
sense tell you when God started the mar
-iage institution he started it as he want Il
ID it to continue? If God had favored Q
he could have created for Adam il
i've wives or ten wives or twenty wives g
ust as easily as he made one. d
tl,o vrarvr fret Of tla TlTbIa Cod ehorr-e r.
himself in favor of monogamy and antsgo- i
listic to polygamy Genesis ii, "a, There o.
ore shall man leave his father and D
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife"
Sot his wives but his wife. How many 81
wives did God spare for Noah in the ark? II
Two and two the birds; two and two the "
attle two and two the lions; two and two e.
he human race. If the God of the Bible n
ad favored multiplicity Of wives he
would have spared a plurality Of wives. Il
When God first launched the human race "
e gave Adam one wife At the second a
lunching Of the human race he spares for N
Ioah one wife, for Ham one wife, for Shem e
ne wife. for Japhet one wife. Does that fC
ook as though God favored poIygamys p
n Leviticus xviii, Is, God thunders his pi
rohibition of more than one wife X
God permitted polygamy. Yes; just as 81
rson and all kinds Of crime. He permits G
hose things, as you we'll know, but he m
oes not sanction them. Who would dare "
o say he sanctions them2 Because the II
Of the United States have per OF
litted polygamy in Utah, you are not, {
therefore,. to conclude that they patronized
; that they approved it, when, on the st
they denounced it. All Of Gods pc
ncient Israel knew that the God Of the G.
ible was against polygamy, for in the th
,ur hundred and thirty years Of their We
iay in Egypt there is only one case Of 50
olygaTny reeorded-only one All the to
lightly men Of the Bible stood aloof from nc
olygamy except those who, falling into to
&c crime, were chastised within an inch br
their lives. Adam. Aaron Noah, Jo- fr,
.ph, Joshua, Samuel, monogamists. But gr
lu say, Didn't David and Solomon favor We
olygamy" Yes; and did they not get th
ell punished for it, III
Read the lives Of those two men and tn