The Indiana State sentinel., 1891-04-15


this sOTt2 Suppose a man should resolve
that he would organize q conspiracy to
destroy all the medicines from all the
apothecaries and from all the hospitals OF
the earth. The work is done. The medi-
cines are taken and they are thrown into
the river, or the lake, or the sea. "Oh,"
saws the nurse, "the anodyres are all de-
stroyed; We have no drops to give you,
but instead OF that I'll read you book
on the absurdities of morphine, and
on the absurditics of all remedies But
the man continues TO writhe in pain and
the nurse SAYS: "Ill continue 10 read
you some discourses on anodynes, the
crueties OF anOdynes. the indecencies OF
anodynes, the absusdities OF anodynes.
For your groan, I'll give you a laugh"
Here in the hospital is a patient having a
gangrened limb amputated. He says,
"Oh, for ether. Oh, for chloroforn."
The doctors say, "Why, they are all
destroyed; we don't have any more chlo-
rofOrm, or ether; but l have got some
thing great deal better. I'll read you
pamphlet against James y. Simpson, the
discoverer of chlorOform as an anasthetiC,
and against Drs. Agnew and Hamilton
and HOsack and Mott and Harvey and
Abernethy." But" says the man. 81
must have some augsthetics." mo" say
the doctors, they are all destroyed, but
we have got something great deal better"
"What is that?" Fun" Fun about
medicines. Lie down, all We patients in
Bellevue hospital and stop your groaning
all We broken-hearted OF ali the cities
and quit your crying; we have the catho-
Icon at last Here is a dose OF il, here Is
a bottle of ribaldry that you are to keep
we'll shaken up and take a spoonful of it
alter each meal, and IL that
does not cure you. here is solution Of
blasphemy in which you may bathe, and
here is a tIncture of derision. Tickle the
skeleton OF death with repartee! Make
the king of terrors cacklei For all the
agonies of all the ages, a jOkei Millions OF
people with willing upliIted hands toward
heaven TO affirm that the gospel OF Jesus
Christ is full OF consolation Tor them, and
vet infdelity proposes to take it away,
giving nothing, absolutely nothing, ex-
cept iun. Is there any greater height, or
depth, or length, or breadth, or immens-
ity OF mesnness in all Gods universe.
lntidelitv is a religion OF don't know"
Is there God? Don't know! is the soul
immortal? Don't know If we should
meet each other in the future world will
we recognize each other? Don't know?
il religion of 'don't know" for the religion
OF 81 know" Il know in whom l have
believed" 81 know that my Redeemer
liveth." Intidel " proposes to substitute
a religion of awful negatives for our re-
ligiOn OF glorious pOstives showing right
before Us a world of reunion and ecstacy,
and high companionship, and glorious
worship, and stupendous victory; the
mightiest Joy of earth not high enough to
reach the base OF the Himalaya of up
lifted splendor awaiting all those who on
the wing of Christian faith soar toward it.
Have YOU heard OF the conspiracy to
put out ali the lighthouses on the coast?
DO you know that on certain night of
next month Eddvstone lighthouse, Bell
Rock lighthouse, Sherryvore lighthouse,
MOntauk lighthouse. Hatteras lighthouse,
New London lighthouse, Barnegat light
house and the $40 lighthouses on the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts are to be ex-
tingulshed? "Oh," you say, what will
become of the ships on that night? What
will be the fate OF the 100000 sailors fol-
lowing the sea? What will be the doom
OF the millions OF passengers? Who will
arise to put down such a conspiracy"
Every man, woman and child in America
and the world. But that is only fable.
That is what inidelitv is trying to do,
put out all the lighthouses on the coast of
eternity. letting the soul 90 up the Mar
I,
no peace-all that coast covered with
the blackness of darkness. Instead OF
the great lighthouse, q glow worm OF
wit, FREELY OF jocosity. When do you
like the better, . vOyager for eternity
the FREELY or the lighthouse? What a
mission infdelty has started on! The
extlngulshment OF lighthouses, the break
ing up of liie-boats, the dismissal of all
the pilots, the turning OF the inscription
on your child's grave into farce and a
lie. Water SCOTS "O.d Mortality"
chisel in hand, went through the land to
cut out into palmer letters the hall-oblit-
Grated inscriptions en- the tombstOues,
and it was a beautiful mission. But in
fidelity spends is time with hammer and
chisel trying to cut out from the tomb
stones OF your dead all the story of resur-
rectiOn and heaven. 1t is the icOnoclast
of every village graveyard, and of every
city cemetery, and of Westminster Abb
bey. Instead of Christian consolation for
the dying, freezing sneer. Instead of
prayer, a yrimace. Instead Of Pauls tri-
umphant defiance of death, going out
you know not where, to stop you know
not when, to do you know not what. That
is iniidelity.
Furthermore, | can not be an infdel
because oil the false charges inidelity is
oil the time making against the bible.
Perhaps the slanders that has made the
most impression, and that some Christians
have not been intelligent enough to deny,
is that the bible favors pOlygamy. Does the
God of the bible uphold poiygamy, 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
nc a n .n1
had favored polygamy he could have
created for Adam five wives. or ten wives
or twenty wives Just as easily as be made
one. At the very first of the bible God
shows himself in favor of monogamy and
antagonistic to pOiygamy, Genesis ii. "a.
Therefore shall man leave his father
and mother, and shall cleave unto his
wife" Not his wives, but his wife. How
many wives did God spare Noah in the
! ark? Two and two the birds; two and
two the cattle; two and two the lions /;
two and two the human race. If the God
OF the bible had favored a multiplicity OF
| wives, he would have spared plurality
OF wives. When God first launched the
human race he gave Adam one wife. At
the second launching of the human race
he spares for Noah one wife, for Ham on Q
wife, for Shem one wife, for Japhet one
wife. Does that look as though God ia
! vOred polygamy. IN Leviticus xviii, Is,
God thunders bis prohibition OF more
than one wife.