The Iola register., 1891-04-10

| TIC NO, say Jne uOctOrS, Gney art
all destroyed, but we have got some
thing great deal better" "What il
that?n Fun" Fun about medicines
Lie down, all We patients in Bellevue
hospital and stop your groaning-al
broken hearted OF all the cities, and
quit your crying: we have the catholi
con at last! Here is dose of wit, here
is strengthening plaster of sarcasm
here is bottle of rihaldry that you are
to keep well shaken up and take {
spoonful of il after each meal, and il
that does not cure you, here is solu
tiOn of blasphemy in which you may
bathe, and here is a tincture of derision
Tickle the skeleton OF death with q re
partee. Make the king of terrorS
cackle. For all the agonies of all the
/ ages, joke! Millions of people willing
with uplifted hands toward heaven tC
affirm that the gospel OF Jesus Christ is
| full of consolation for them, and YET
infidelity proposes 90 take it away
| giving nothing, absolutely nothing, eX
cept fun. Is there any greater height
or depth. or length, or breadth, or i'm
mensity or meanness in all Gods uni
verse?
| Have you heard of the conspiracy tC
! put out all the lighthouses on the coast:
Do you know that on certain night Of
next month Eddystone lighthouse. Bel
| Rock lighthouse, New London light
house, Sherryyore lighthouse Montaub
lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse, Barn
egat lighthouse, and the $40 lighthouses
on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are tc
be eXtinguished? 60" 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 passengers:
Who will arise to put down such con,
spiracy?" Every man, woman and child
IN America and the world. But that is
only fable. That is what infidelity is
trying to do, put out all the lighthouses
on the coast OF eternity, letting the soul
so up the ''narrows." 4" of death with nc
light, no comfort, no peace-all that
coast covered with the blackness OF
darkness. Instead of the great light
house. glow worm of wit, a FREELY oi
jOcosity. Which do you like the better.
o vOyager for eternity-the firefiy or
the light house? What a mission inf
deity has started on! The extinguish-
ment of lighthouses, the breaking up
OF life-boats, the dismissal of all the pi-
lots, the truning of the inscriptions on
your child'S grave into farce and a lie.
Walter SCOTS" Old mortality, 'chisel in
hard, went through the land 10 cut out
into palmer letters the half oliterated
inscriptions on the tombstones. and it
was beautiful mission. But infidelity
spends its time with hammer and CHS
el trying to cut from the tombstones of
your dead all the story of resurrection
and heaven. 1t is the inconoclast Of
every village graveyard and OF every
city cemetery and of Westminster alb
bey. Instead of christian consolation
for the dying. freezing sueer. Instead
OF prayer grimace. Instead of Paul's
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 infdelity.
Furthermore, | cannot be an infiGel
because of the false charges infidelity
is all the time making against the BIZ
BILE. 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 poivgamy. Does the God Of the
Bible uphold pGlygamy, or did he: How
many wives did God make for AdamP
He made one wife. Does not your COM
mon sense tell You when God started
the marriage institution he started it
as he wanted Il to continue? If God
have favored polygamy he could have
created for Adam five wives or ten
wives or twenty wives, just as easily as
l1 r a l.
Bible God shows himself in favor of
monogamy and antagonistic to polyga-
my. Genesis, ii, "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 and
the Bible had favored a multiplicity of
wives, he would have spared q plurality
of wives. When God first launched the
human race, He gave Adam one wife.
AT the second launching of the human
race He spares for Noah one wife, for
Ham one wife, for Shem one wife. for
Japhet one wife. Does that look as
though God favored polygamy? In Le-
xviii, Is, God thunders his pro-
of more than one wife.
God permitted polygamy. Yes: just
as he permitted to-day murder and
arson and all kinds of crime. He per-
mits these things as yon well know, but
he does not sanction them. Who would
dare to say he sanctions them? Be-
cause the presidents of the United
States have permitted polygamv in
Utah, you are not, therefore, to con-
clude that they patronized it. that they
approve it when, on the contrary, they
denounced it. All of Gods ancient Is
rael knew that the God of the Bible was
against polygamy, for in the 430 years
Of their stay in Egypt there is only one
case OF polygamy recorded-ouly 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, Joseph, Joshua, Samuel.
But you say: Didn't
David and Solomon favor polygamy?"
Yes, and did they not get well punished
for it: Read the lives of those two
men, and you will come to the conclu-
sion that all the attributes of Gods ma
ture were against their behavior. Da-
yid suffered for his crimes in the cav
erns of Adullam and MasSada, in the
of Mahanaim in the bereave-
ments of Ziklag. The Bedonins after
him, sickness after him, Absolam after
him, Ahithopel after him, Adonijah af-
ter him, the Edomites after him, the
Syrians after him, the Moabites after
him, death after him, the Lord God
after him. The poorest peas
ant in all the empire married to the |
plainest Jewess was happier than the
kind in his marital misbehavior.
Another false charge which infidelity
has made against the Bible is that it is
to woman; that it enjoins