Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-04-17

OF the Bible, and see which pictures are the
more honored. Here Is Eve. a perfect
woman; as perfect q woman as could be
made by perfect God. Here Is Deborah,
with her womanly arm hurting a host into
battle. Here is Miriam, leading the Israel
itish orchestra on the banks OF the
Red Sea. Here is motherly Hannah,
with her own loving hand repleuishing the
wardrobe OF her son Samuel. the prophet.
Here is Abigail, kneeling at the foot Of the
mountain until the four hundred wrathful
men, at the sight OF her beauty and proweSs
halt, halt-a hurricane stopped at the sight
of q water lily, dew drop dashing back Nj
agars. Here Is Ruth putting to shame all
modern slang about mothers-fn-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 philan-
thropic needle, and the woman with perfume
In 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 merchan-
| tess of Tyriau purple immortalized for her
| Christian behavior. Here is the widow with
two mites, more famous than the Peabodys
and the I.enoxes Of all the ages while here
comes In slow of gait and with careful atten,
dants and with especial honor and high favor,
leaning on the arm of inspiration, one who
Is the Joy and pride OF any home 30 rarely
| fortunate as TO have one, an old Christian
grandmother, Grandmother Lois. Who has
more worshipers to-day than any being
that ever lived on earth except Jesus Christi
Mary For what purpose did Christ perform
His first miracle upon eartbi To relieve the
| embarrassment OF womanly housekeeper
at the falling short of a leverage. Why
did Christ break up the silence of the tomb
and tear of the shroud, and rip up the rocksf
! It was to stop the bereavement OF the two
| Bethany siste5v For whose comfort was
| Christ most anxious in the hour OF dying
excruciation2 For a woman, an old woman,
! q wrinkle faced woman, a woman who in
other days had held Him In her arms, Hi,
first friend. His last friend. as it is very ant
to be, His mother. All the pathos OF the ages
compressed into one utterance behold thy
mother" Does the Bible antagonize
| woman,
II the Bible is so antagonistic to woman,
how do you account for the difference in
womans condition in China and Central
| Africa, and her condition in England and
| America' There is no difference except that
| which the Bible makes. In lands where there
is no Bible she is hitchel like beast OF bur
den TO the plows she carries the ho1 she sub
mits to indescrihable indignites. She must
! be kept in a private apartment, and il she
come forth she must be carefully hooded and
reigiously veed as though it were shame
to be a woman. Do you not know that tho
very first thing the Bible does when 1t comes
into new country is to strike Off the shackles
! of woman's serfdoms q woman where are
| your chains to-dayt Hold up both your arms
and let us see your handouts. Oh, we see
the handouts. They are bracelets OF gold
bestowed by husbandly or fathery or
/ brotherly or sisterly or lovely affection. Cn-
loosen the warm robe from your neck, o
woman and let US see the yoke Of your bond
age. Oh, find the yoke carcenet of silver,
or string OF carneiinns, or u cluster OF
pearls that must gall you very much. How
/ bad you must all have it.
/ Since you put the Bible on your stand in
the sitting room, has the Bible been to you,
! o woman, curse or a blessng' Why is 1t
| that woman when shs Is troubled will 60
TO her worst enemy, the Biblet Why do
you not go for comfort TO some of the
great infidel books. SpiuoEas Ethics ~
or Humes Natural History of Religion, "
or Paine's Age of Reason, or any one Of
the $50 volumes of Voltairet No, the silly
deuded woman persists in hanging about
our Bible verses let not your heart bt
troubled" IAN things work together for
good, Weeping may endure for a night,
III am the resurrection" Peace be still
Furthermore rather than invite resist
this plague OF infdelity because it hai
wrought no positive good for the world ant
is always hindrance. / ask you to mention
the name of the merciful and the education
al institutions which infidelity founded and
is supporting, and has supported all the way
Observation-Disclosures pronounced against
God and the Christian religion, and yet pro
nouncei In behalf OF suffering humanity
What are the names OF them, Certainly MOI
the United States Christian commission, ol
the sanitary commission, for Christiai
George II. Stuart was the President Of th,
one, and Christian Henry w. Bellows wa
the President OF the other.
Where are the asylums and mercffui in
stitutions founded by inhdelity and sup
ported by infdelity, pronounced against
God and the Bible, and yet doing work for
the alleviation OF sufferingi Infidelity is 50
very loud in its braggadocio it must hav,
some to mention. Certainly, IL you come t.
speak of educational institutions it is no
Yale, 1t is not Harvard, 1t is not Princeton
1t is not Middletown, 1t is not Cambridge OF
| o4IOfu, IL IL Hob any iHsttthNiJu ilOul NuICt
a diploma would not bs disgrace Do yo,
point to the German universities as excep
tionsf have TO tell you that all the German
universities to-day are under positiv
Christian influences, except the University
OF Heidelburg, where the ruffianly student
cut and maui and mangle and murder eacl
other as a matter OF pride instead of infamy
Do you mention Girard College, Philadelphia
as an exception, that college established b,
tLA - NJ o-1 hfal, 10
ligious instruction and the entrance O
clergymen within its gates. My reply |
that lived for seven years near that colle5
and l knew many OF its professors to b
Christian instructors and no better Christian
influences are to be found in any college thai
In Girard College.
There stands Christianity. There stand
infdelity. Compare what they have done
Compare their resources. There is Chris
tianity, a prayer on her lip; benedictlon Of
her brow; both hands full of help for all VIII
want help; the mother Of thousands of CO.
leges the mother OF thousands of asylum
for the oppressed, the blind, the sick, tn
lame, tho imbecile: the mother of mission
for the bringing back OF the outcast; tn
mother of thousands OF reformatory institu
tions for the saving OK the lost; the mothe
of innumerable Sabbath-schools bringn
millions Of children under drill to prebar
them for respectability and usefulness,
: say nothing Of the great future. That
: Christianity.
Here Is infdelity; no prayer on her lips n
benediction on her brow, both hands clenche
what fort To fight Christianity. That
the entire business. The complete missio
Of inddelity to fight Christianity. Wher
are her schools, her colleges, her asylums {
mercyf Let me throw you down who
ream of foolscap paper that you may fill a
of it with the names OF her beneticeut il
!; stitutions, the colleges and the asylums, III
institutions of mercy and learning, founde
by infdelity and supported alone by inAde
ity, pronounced against God and the Chri
tian religion, and vet in favor of making IL
? world better, "Oh," you say, "a ream
! paper is too much for the names Of those Il
stitutions." Well, then, throw you quiz
: | IL. III L