Connecticut western news., 1891-04-08

N>' "AAANAA iS NOIeAA1OAt eACIC lS tA lAuS5A. ter which has the rebound of despair. It is not healthy to giggle about God. or chuckle about eternity, or s1nirk about the things of the immortal soul You know what caused the accident years ago on the Hudson River railroad It was an intoxicated man who for a joke pulled the string of the air brake and stopped the train at the most dan gerous point of the journey. But the lightning train. not knowing there was any impeachment in the way, came down, crushing out of the mangled vic tins the immortal souls that went speed. ing instantly to God and judgment. It was only joke He thought it would be such fun to stop the train. He stopped it And so intidelity is chiefly anxious to stop the long train of the Bible, and the long train of the churches, and the long train of Christian influ. ences. while colning down upon us are death. judgment and eternity, coming thousand miles q minute, coming with more force than all the avalanches that ever slipped from the Alps, coming with more strength than all the lightning express trains that ever whistled or shrieked or thundered across tue conti- nent.
 THE LAUGHTER OF FOOLS.
 Now. in this jocuiarity of infidel thinkers l cannot join. and propose to give you some reasons why cannot be an intidel. and so l will try to help out of this present condition any who may have been struck with the awful plague of skepticism.
 First, l cannot he an infidel because intidelity has no good substitute for the consolation it proposes to take away You know there are millions of people who get their chief consolation from tllls book. What would you think of q crusade of this sort2 Suppose man should resolve that he would organize a conspiracy to destroy all the medi- cines from all the apothecaries and from all the hospitals of the earth. The i 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 a | paroxysn of distress and wants an anodyne. "Oh." says the nurse, ''the anodynes are all destroyed: we have no drops to give ya, but instead of that I'll read you book on the ab l surdities of morphine and on the ab surdities of all remedies" But the man continues to writhe in pain. and the nurse says "1'll continue to read you some discourses on anodynes the cruel ties of anodynes, the indecencies ot anodynes. the absurdities of anodynes. For your groan I'll give you laugh. :" Here in the hospital is patient having a gangrened limb amputated. He says "Oh. for ether Oh. for chloroforlnl" [" The doctors say. Why, they are all destroyed; we don't have any more chIorofor,n. or ether: but have got something great deal better I'll read you pamphlet against James r. Silnp son. the discoverer of chloroforln as all an;esthetic, and against Doctors Agnew and Hamilton and Hosack and Mott and Harvey and Abernethy. :" "But." says the man. II must have some an8sthetics. 'No." say the doctors they are all destroyed but we have got something q great deal better" What is that?'' 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 l orxyiy,D. ho ho <hol icon at last Here is a dose of wit t; here is q strengthening plaster of sar caslu: here is a bottle of ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken up. and take spoonful of il after each meal and if that does not cure you, here is a solution of blasphe1ny in which you p,ay bathe, aud here is a tincture of derision Tickle the skeleton of death with rcpartee! Make the King of Terrors cacklel For all the agonies of all the ages, 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 intidelity proposes to take it away, giving nothing. abso lutely nothing, except fun. Is there any greater height or depth or length or breadth or ilnmensity of meanness in all Gods universeI
 MISERY OF IGNORANT NO-FArTH.
 Intidelity is religion of Don't know" Is there God? Don't know Is the soul immortal? Don't knowl If we should meet each other in the fut- ure world will we recognize each other? Don't knowl A religion of Don't know" for the religion of "I know" II know in whom have believed" II know that my Redee1ner liveth." In fidelity proposes to substitute a religion of awful negatives for our religion of glorious positiyes showing right before us a world of reunion and ecstasy and high colnpanionship 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 splendor 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 coast7 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 shirs on thai night