Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-04-09

/ these things, as you well know, but he
| does not sanction them. Who would dare
to say he sanctionst thems Because the
| presidents of the United States have per-
mitted polygamy in Utah, you are not,
| therefore, to conclude that they patronized
| it, that they approved it, when, on the
contrary, they denounced it. All of Gods
ancient Israel knew that the God of the
Bible was against polygamy, for in the
four hundred and thirty years of their
stay in Egypt there is only one case of
polygamy recorded-only one. All the
mighty men of the Bible stood aloof from
| polygamy except those who, falling into
| the crime, were chastised within an inch
of their lives Adam. Aaron Noah, Jo-
| seph, Joshua Samuel, n1onogamists. But
you say, Didn't David and Solomon favor
polygamyT Yes; and did they not get
well punished for it?
Read the lives of those two men and
you will come to the conclusion that all
the attributes of Gods nature were against
their behavior. David suffered for his
crimes in the caverns of Adullam and Mas
sada. in the wilderness of Mahanaim, in
the bereavements of Zklag. The Bedouins
after him, sickness after him, Absalom af-
ter him. Ahithopel after him, Adonijah af-
ter him, the Edomites after him, the Sy-
rians after him, the Moabites after him,
death after him. the Lord God Almighty
after him The poorest peasant in all the
empire married TO the plainest Jewess was
happier than the king in his marital mis-
behavior. How did Solomon get along
with polygamy? Read his warnings in
Proverbs; read his self disgust in Ecclesi-
astes. He throws up his hands in loath-
ing and cries out, VANITY of vanities, all
is vanity" His seven hundred wives
nearly pestered the life out of him. Solo
ONION got well paid for his crimes-well
paid.
repeat that all the mighty men of the
Scriptures were aloof from polygamy, save
as they were pounded and failed and cut
to pieces for their insult to holy marriage
If the Bible is the friend of polygamy why
is it that in all the lands where the Bible
predominates polygamy is forbidden, and
in the lands where there is no Bible it Is
favored. Polygamy all over China, all
over India, all over Africa, all over Persia
all over heathendom, save as the mission
aries have done their work, while polyg
amy does not exist in England and the
United States, except in defiance of law
The Bible abroad, God honored monogamy
The Bible not abroad, God abhorred polyg
amy.
THE GLORY OF CHRISTIAN woMANH0oD.
Another false charge which infidelity has
made against the Bible is that it isantago-
nistic TO woman, that il enjoins her degra-
dation and belittles her mission. Under
this impression many women have been
overcome of this plague of iniidelity Is
the Bible the enemy of womanf Come
into the picture gallery, the Louvre, the
Luxembourg Of the Bible, and see which
pictures are the more honored. Here is
Eve, perfect woman; as perfect woman
as could be made by perfect God. Here
is Deborah, with her womanly arm hurting
a host into battle. Here is Miriam, lead
ing the Israeitish orchestra on the banks
of the Red sea. Hereis motherly Hannah,
with her own loving hand replenishing the
wardrobe of her son Samuel, the prophet.
Here is Abigail, kneeling at the foot
of the mountain until the four hun
dred wrathful men, at the sight Of her
beauty and prowess halt, halt-a hurricane
stopped ut the sight of a water lily, n dew
drop dashing back Niagara Here is Ruth
putting to shame all the modern slang
about mothers-in law as she turns her
back on her home and her country, and
faces wild beasts and exile and death that
she may be with Naomi, her husbands
mother Ruth, the queen of the harvest
fields. Ruth. the grandmother OF David.
Ruth, the ancestress of Jesus Christ. The
story of her virtues and her life sacrifice is
the most beautiful pastoral ever written.
Here is Vashti defying the bacchanal OF a
thousand drunken lords, and Esther will
ing to throw her life away that she may
deliver her people. And here Is Dorcas,
the sunlight of eternal fame gliding her
philanthropic needle, and the woman with
perfume in a box made from the hills of
Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on
the head of Christ. the aroma lingering all
down the corridor of the centuries. Here
is lydia, the merchantess of Tyrian purple
inmortalized for her Christian behavior.
Here is the widow with two mites, more
famous than the Peab0dys and the Len
oxes of all the ages, while here comes in
slow of gait and with careful attendants
and with especial honor and high favor,
leaning on the arm of inspiration, one who
is the JOY and pride Of any home so rarely
fortunate as to have one, an old Christian
grandmother, Grandmother Lois. Who
has more worshipers today than any being
that ever lived on earth except Jesus
Christi Mary. For what purpose did
Christ perform his first miracle upon earths
To relieve the embarrassment Of a woman
ly housekeeper at the falling short of
beverage. Why did Christ break up the
silence of the tomb, and tear off the shroud,
and rib up the rocksg 1t was to stop the
bereavement of the two Bethany sisters.
For whose comfort was Christ most anx-
ious in the hour of dying excruciationg
For woman, an old woman, a wrinkle
faced woman. woman who in other days
had held him in her arms, his first friend,
his last friend, as it is very apt to be, his
mother. All the pathos of the ages com
pressed into one utterance, Behold thy
mother" Does the Bible antagonize WON
am
A CALL FOR THE WITNESSES.
II the Bible is so antagonistic to woman,
how do you account for the difference in
woman's condition in China and Central
Africa. aud her condition in England and
American There is no difference except
that which the Bible makes. In lands
where there is no Bible she is hitched like
a beast of burden TO the plows, she carries