The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-04-14

= ~ Ltf~tO n lut2llQIS OI nfODlG
who get thoir chief consolation FROM this
book. What wousd you think Of n cru
resolve that he would organize n con-
spiracy TO destroy all the medicines from
all the apothecaries andfrom all The hog
pitals OF the sarth. The work is done.
The medicines are taken and thew are
thrown into the river, or the lake, or the
sea. "A patient wakes up at midnight
in a paroXysm of distress, and wants an
~anodyne. ssOb," says the nurse, .sthe
anodynes are all destroyed; we have no
drops to give you, but instead og that IIl
read you a book on the absurlities Of
Iaorphine, and on the absurdities of all
remedles.n But the man continues to
v the inpain, and the nurse SAYS: .sI,ll
continue to read you some discourses on
a odynes, the cruelties of anodynes. the
indecenc'es Of anodynes, the absurdities
of anodynes. For your groan, I,ll give
you a laugh.o Here in the hospital Is o.
patient having a gangrened limb ampu-
tated. He says, "Oh, for ether. Oh.
for chloroform.o The doctor SAYS.
"Why, they are all destroyed; we don't
have any more chloroform, or ether; but
l have got something agreat deal better.
I'll read youa pamphlet against James
Y. Simpson, tho discoyerer of chloro-
form as an an@sthetic, and against Doc
Uofs Agnew, andH Hamilton, and Hosack.
and Mott, and Harvey, and Abernethy."
But" says the man, 81 must have
some a~nesthetics.D MOP saws tho
doctors, 'they are all destroyed, but we
have got something a great deal better.,
ItWhat is that2" aFnu.o Fun about
medicines. Lie down, all We patients
lin Bellevue hospital and stop your
groaning-all ye broken-heart of all
the cities, and quit your crying; we have
the oatholicon at last! Here Is a dose
OF wit, here Is q strengthening plaster of
sarcasm, here is a bottle OF ribaldry that.
you are to keep we'll shaken up and take
a spoonful Of it after each meal, and if
that does not cure you, here is n solution
of blasphemv in which you may battle,
and here is q tincture OF derision. rick-
lie 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 uplilted
hand toward heaven to affirm that the
Gospel Of Jesus Christ is full of conso-
lation for them, and yet inlidelity pro-
poses to take it away, giving nothing,
absolutely nothing except fun. Is there
any greater height, or depth. or length,
or breadth or .mmensity OF meanness in
all Gods ~uniyer!e!
Infidelity Is a religion of "Don't
know" Is there n God? Don't know.
Is the soul immortal? Don'tkuow. If
we should meet each other in the future
world will we recognize each otherp
Don'tknow! A religion ofadon'tknow"
f,r the religion of" 81 know" 81 know
in whom [ have believed." 81 know
that my Redeemer liveth." Infidelity
proposes to substitute q religion of aw-
full negatives for our religion of glorious
positives showing right before us a world
OF reunion and ecstasy, and high com.
partnership, and glorious worship, and
stupondous victory; the mightiest Joy of
earth not high enough to reach to the
base o the Himalaya Of uplifted splen-
dor awaiting all those who On wing of
Christian faith will soa 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,
Montauk lighthouse, Hatteras light
house, Now London lighthouse, Barne-
gat lighthouse, and the 640 lighthouses
on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are to
be e~xtinguished9 "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 ofpassengers Z?
Who will arise to put down such a con-
spiracy?" Every man, woman, and child
in America, and the world. But that is
only a fable. That is what inGdelity 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 BLACKLIST of dark
ness. 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 intidelity has started
OF! The extinguishment of lighthouses,
the breaking up of lifeboats, the dismiss
sal of all the pilots, the turning of the in
cription on your child's grave into q farce
and a lie. Walter Scott's cold Mortal
ity,o chisel in hand, went through the
land to cut out into palmer letters the
half obliterated inscriptions on the tomb
stones, and ii was a beautiful mission.
But iniidelity spends it's time with ham,
mer and chisel trying to cut out from the
tombstones of your dead all the story OF
resurrection and heaven. 1t is the ICON
oclast of every village graveyard, and Of
every city cemetery, and Of Westmin.
ster Abbey. Instead of Christian con-
ISOLATION for the dying, a freezing neer.
Instead OF prayer, n grimace. Instead
o. PauPs 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 lDfidelity.
Furthermore: j cannot be an inidel.
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 Chris
tians have not been intelligent enough
to deny is that the Bible favors polyg-
amy. Does the God of the Bible uphold
polyGamy, 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 it rs he wanted
it continued? If God had favored poly
gamY he could have created for Adam
five wives, or ten wives, or twenty
wives, just as easily as lie made one.
AT the very first of the Bible God shows
himself in favor of monogomy and an
tagonistic to polygamy. Genesis 2: "a:
Therefore shall n man leave his father
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