The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-06

chief consola ion from this book. What
would you think Of q crusade Of this sort
Suppose a man should resolve that be
would organize a conspiracy to DE-
stroy all the medicines from all the apOth-
ecariss and from al 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. patient
wakes up at midnight in a paroxysm OF dis
tress and wants an anodyne. 10, says the
nurse, "the anOdynes are all destroyed; we
have no drops to give you, but instead OF
that I'll read YOU book on the absurdities
of morphine, ana on the absurdities OF all
remedies But the man continues TO
writhe in pain. and the nurse says: "I'l
continue TO read you some discourses on
anod mes, the cruelties of anodynes. the in
decencies of anOdynes. the absurdities of
anodynes. For your groan, I'll give you a
laugh Here I'm the hospital is a
patient having a gangrened limb am
putatsd. He says: 80, for ether. o,
Tor chloroform. The doctors say: "Why,
they are all destroyed; we don't have
any more chloroform, or ether; but have
got something a great deal better. Pll read
you pamphlet against James Y Simpson,
the dlscoverer Of chloroform as an anass-
thetic, and against Drs. Agnew, and Ham,
ilton, and Hosack, and Mott, and Harvey,
and Alternately" But" says the man, II
must have some anRstheticS.n mo" say
the doctors, ''they are all destroyed, but we
have got something a great deal better"
'Wbat is that!' Fun" FUN about medl-
cines Lie down, all We patients in Bellevue
hospital, and stop your groanlng-all ye
broken hearted of ali the cities, and quit
your crying; We have the ca holicon 1T
last! Here is a dose of wit, here is
Strengthening plaster of sarcasm, here is
bottle of ribaldry that you are to
keep well shaken up and take a
II - oft nd - hat
does not cure you. here is a solution of
b asphemy in which you may battle, and
here is a tncture OF derision. Tickle the
skeleton of death with repartee! Make
the King of Terrors oacIle! For all the
agonies OF all tue 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 inhdelity proposes to take 1t away, Civ
ing nothing, absolutely nothing, but fun.
is there any greater hight, or depth, or
leng b, or breadth or immensely of meanS
ness in all Gods universei
Inf1dellty is a religion OF "Don't know
Is there Code Don't knowl Is the soul
immortall Don't know! II we should
meet each other in the future world will we
recognize each otherl Don't know A re-
hgion of don't know" for the religion Of
81 know, h"I know in whom l have be-
heved." Il know that my Redeemer
hveth." Infidelity proposes to substitute
religion of awful negative for our religion
of glorious positives showing right before
us a world of reunion and ecstasy, and high
companionship, and glorious worship, and
stupendous Wet ry; the mightiest joy Of
earth not high enough to reach to the base
of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor await
ing 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 coasti Do
you know that on certain night of next
month, Eddystone Lighthouse, Bell Rock
lighthouse, Sherryvore lighthouse, Montauk
lii hthouse, HatteraS lighthouse, New
London Lighthouse, Barnegat lighthouse
and the $40 Lighthouses on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts are to be ext;nguisuedl 40"
you say" what will become Of the ships ON
that nighti What will be the fate of the
one million sailors following the seal W hat
will be the doom of the millions of passen-
gersl Who will arise to put do IN such a
conspiracy Every man, woman and child
in America, aud the world. But that is
ouly q faole. That is what infidelIty is
trying 10 Go, put out all the lighthouses on
the coast of eternity, letting the soul 60 up
the "Narrows" of death with no light. no
comic I, no peace-all that coast covered
with the blackness of darkness. Instead of
the great Lighthouse, a owworm of wit, a
hrehy of j costly. Which do you like the
better, Q voyager for eternitv-the FREELY
or the Lighthouse! What a mission infideity
has started ont The extinguIshment of
lighthouses, the breaking up of lifeboatS,
the dismissal of all the pilots. the turning of
the inscription on your childs grave into
farce and lie. Walter SCOTS ''Old
Mortality. "chisel IN hand, went through the
land to cut out into palmer letters the half o.
liberated inscriptions On the tombstones, ard
it as beautiful mission. But infidelity
spends its time with hammer and chisel try
ing o cut cut from the tomt stones Of your
dead all the story Of resurrection and
heaven. 1t is the inconoclsst of every wills
lage graveyard, aud of every city cemetery,
aud of Westminster Abbey. Instead Of
Christian consolation for the dying, freez.
ing sheer. Instead of prayer, a grimace
Instead of Paul's triumphant defiance of
death, going out you know not where, to
STOP you know not when, to do you know
not what That is infidelity.
Furthermore: cannot be an infidel. be-
cause Of the false charges infidelity is all the
time making against the Bible. Perhaps
the SANDER that has made the most impress
sion and that some Christians have not been
intelligent enough to deny is that the Bible
favors poiygamy. Does the God of the
Bible uphold poygamy, or did he2 How
many wives did God make for Adam? He
made one wife. Does not your common
sense tell you when God started the mar
riage institution, he started it as he wanted
1t to continued II God had favored polyg-
amy 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 Bible God shows
himself in favor of monogamY and
Antsgonistio to polygamy. Genesis H., "a:
Therefore shall a man leave his father and
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,
Not his wives, but his wife. How many
wives did God spare for 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 multiplicity of wives. he would
have spared a plurality of wives When
God first launched the human race he gave
Adam one wife. At the second Launching
of the human race he ares for Noah one
wife, for Ham one life, for Shen one wife,
for Japhe5 one wife. Does that look as
though God favored polyEamy1 In Levitt
Gus xviii. lS, God thunders his prohibition of
more than one wife.
God permitted polygamy. Yes; Just as
he permits to-day murder and theft and
arson and all kinds of crime. He per nits
these things as you we'll know, but he does
not sanction them. Who would dare to
say he sanctions them2 Because the Presi-
dents Of the United States have permitted
polygamy in Utah, you are not, therefore,
to conclude that they patronize it. that
they approved it when, on the contrary