Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-04-06

consolation 1t 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 thissort? Suppose a 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 Il book on the alb
surdities of morphine and on the alb
surdities of all remedies" But the man
continues to writhe in pain, and the
nurse says: ''I'll continue to read you
some discOurses on anOdyneS, the cruel
ties of anOdynes. the indecencies of
anodynes. the absurdities of anodynes
For your groan I'll give you laugh"
Here in the hospital is patient having
gangGened limb amputated. He says:
ooh, for ether! Oh, for chloroform!"
The doctors say why, they are all
destroyed; we don't have any more
chloroforln, or ether; but | have got
something Il great dc1l better. I'll read
you u pamphlet against James Y. Simp-
son, the discOverer of chIoroform as an
anasthetic, and against Doctors Agnew
and Hamilton and Hosack and
Mott and Harvey and Abernethy."
But" says the man, Il must have
some anasthetics' > No" say the
doctors, they are all destroyed,
but we have got something
great deal better What is thatY
Fun" 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 a strengthening plaster OF sar-
casm; 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
solution of blasphemy in which you
may battle, and here is a tincture of
derision. Tickle the skeleton of death
with a repartee! 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 infidelity proposes to
-
lutely nothing, except fun. Is there
any greater height or depth or length
or breadth or immensely Of meanness
in all Gods universal
MISERY OF IGNORANT NO-FAITH.
Infidelity is religion of Don't
know" Is there a God? Don't know!
Is the soul immortal2 Don't know! If
we should meet each other in the fut-
ure world will we recognize each other?
Don't know A religion of Don't
know for the religion of Il know" Il
know in whom [ have believed, " 81
know that my Redeemer liveth" In.
fidelity proposes to substitute a 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 spIendor awaiting all those
who on wing of Christian 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 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-
tinguished? 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-
gers? Who will arise to put down such
a conspiracy" Every man, woman
and child in America and the world.
But that is only a fable. That is what
infidelity is trying to do, put out all the
lighthouses on the coast of eternity,
letting the soul go up the E'Narrows"
of death with no light no comfort, no
peace-aIl that coast covered with the
blackness of darkness. Instead of the
great lighthouse, a glowworm of wit, a
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 extinguishmento of lighthouses,
the breaking up of lifeboats, the dis
missal of all the pilots, the turning of
the inscription on your chiId's grave
into a farce and lie. Walter SCOTS
Old Mortality, chisel in hand, went |
through The land to cut into palmer
letters the half obliterated inscriptions
on the tolnbstones, and it was a beau
tiful mission. But infidelity spends its |
time with hammer and chisel trying to |
cut out from the tOmbstones of your |
dead all the story of resurrection and |
heaven. 1t is the icOnOclast of every |
village graveyard, and of every city |
cemetery, and of Westminster Abbey. |
Instead of Christian consolation for the |
prayer grimace Instead of PauIs |
triumphant defiance of death, a going |
out you know not where. to stop you |
know not when, to do you know not |
what That is infidelity
FOLLY OF THE POLYGANuST'S CLAIM.
Furthermore, I cannot be an infidel |
because OF the false charges infidelity |
is all the time making against the |
Bible. Perhaps the SANDER that has |
made the most impression and that |
some Christians have not been intelli- |
gent enough to deny is that the
Bible favors polygamy. Does the Goo
of the Bible uphold polygamy, or die
he? How many wives did God make
for Adam? He made one wife Doe
not your common sense tell you wheL
God started the marriage institution he
started it as he wanted it to continue:
If God had favored polygamy he could
have created for Adam five wives, or
ten wives, or twenty wives, just as
easily as he made one.
AT the very first of the Rib1a God