Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-06

lake, or the sea. A patient wakes up al
| midnight in a paroxysm of distress, and
| wants an anodyne 'iOh," says the nurse.
1.-THE anodynes are all destroyed; we have
| no drops TO give you, but instead Of that
I'll read you a book on the absurdities Of
| remedies" But the man continues to
writhe in pain, and the nurse says: ''I'll
| continue TO read you some discourses on
| anodynes, the cruelties Of anodynes, the IN
decencies Of anodynes, the ebsurdities Of
anodynes. For your groans, I'll give you q
| laugh" Here in the hospital is patient
t having ~ gang Ten limb an TS
for chloroform.' The doctors say,
why, they are all destroyed; we don't
| have any more chloroform or ether: but
! have got something great deal better. III
read you pamphlet against James Y.
| Simpson, the discoverer of chloroforln as an
anest hetic, and against Doctors Agnew, and
Hamilton, and Hosack, and Mott and Har-
vey, and Abernethy.' But" says the
man, Il must have some anasthetics. -
! No" say the doctors, they are all de-
stroyed, but we have got something great
deal better" What is that" Fun. ="
Fun about medicines Lie down, all ye
patients in Bellevue hospital and stop your
groaning-all We bToken-hearted OF all the
cities, and quit your crying; we have the
catholicon at last
HERE Is A DOSE OF WIT,
here is q Strengthening plaster OF sarcasm,
here is bottle of ribaldry that you are to
keep well shaken up and take spoonful Of
it after each meal. and If that does not cure
you, here is solution of blasphemy in
which you may battle, and here is ! tincture
OF derision Tickle the skeleton Of death
with repartee! Make the King Of Terrors
cacllle. For all the agonics OF all the Gges. u
Joke! Millions Of people willing with up
lifted hand toward heaven TO affirm hat the
gospel of Jesus Christ is full Of consolation
for them, and yet infidelity proposes to
take it away, giving nothing, absolutely
nothing, except fun. Is there any greater
height, or depth, or length, or breadth, or
immensely Of meanness in al Gods uni
verse;
Infdelity is q religion Of Don't know"
Is there Code Don't know! Is the soul
immortall Don't know + we should
meet each other in the future world will we
recognize each otherl Don't know! 4 re-
ligion OF don't know for the religion Of
y know" Il know in whom l have b.
i=vei.' II know that my R1ieemar hv-
eth"
lnfdelity proposes to substitute religion
of awful negatives for our religion OF glo-
rious positives showing right before Us q
world Of reunion and ecstacy, and high
cOmpanionShip, and glorious worship, and
stupendous victory; the mightiest joy Of
earth not high enough to reach to the base
of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor await
ing al 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 coasts Do
you know that on a certain night Of next
month, Eddystone lighthouse, Bel Rock
lighthouse, Sherryvore lighthouse, Mon
tauk ighr house. Hatteras lighthouse. New
London lighthouse, BarncCat lighthouse,
and the $40 igh houses on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts are to be eXtiDguiShed2
Oh you say, what will become of the
ships on that night3 What viii be the
fate Of
THE ONE MILLION SAILORS
following he seal What will be the doom
Of the millions Of passcngcrsl Who will
arise TO put down such conspiracy"
Every man. woman and child in America
and the world. But that is only fable.
That is what intdelity is trying to do,
put out all the lighthouses on the coast OF
eternity, letting the soul go up the Mar
rows" of death with no light, no comfort,
no peace-au that coast covered with the
blaclness of darkness. Instead of the great
lighthouses q glowworm OF wit, FREELY OF
iocosity. Which do you like the better, oh
voyager for eternity-the freely or the
hghthouSe2 What i mission intidelity has
started on. The eXtinguiShment Of light
houses, the breaking up of ifeboats, the
dismissal OF all the pilots. the turning of
the inscription on your child's grave into I
farce and lie. Walter Scott's odd Nor
tality," chisel in hand, went through the
land to cut out into palmer letters the half
Oblitsrated inscriptions on the tom pstoneS,
and it was a beautiful mission. But inf
deity spends is lime with hammer and
Chisel trying to cut out from the tomb
stones of your dead all the story of resur-
rection and heaven 1t is the iConOclast Of
every village graveyard and of every city
cemetery and of Westminster abbey. In
stead OF Christian consolation for the dying
a freezing sneer; instead of prayer a grim
ace; instead of Pauls triumphll defiance OF
death going out you know not where, TO
stop you know not when. to do you know
not what. That is infiielity.
Furthermore: l cannot be an infidal, be-
cause of the false charges infidclity is all
the time making against the Bible. Per-
haps the SANDER that has made the most
impression and that some Christians have
not been Intelligent enough to deny is that
the Bible favOrs polygamy. Does the God
of the Bible uphold polygamy, or did ne!
How many wives did God make for Adam2
He made one wife. Does not your common
sense tell you when God started
THE MARRIAGE INSTITUTION,
he started it as he wanted 1t to continue?
If God had favored polygamy 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
antagonistic 10 polygImy. Genesis ii, 2i:
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 plurality of wives.
When God first launched the human race
He gave Adam one wife At the second
Launching of the human race he spared for
Noah one wife. for Ham one wife, for Shem
one wife, for Japhet one wife. Does that
look as though God favored polvgamy2 In
LeviticuS xviii, Is, God thunders his prOhi-
bitlon 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 permits
these things, US you well know, but He
does not sanction them. Who would dare
TO say He sanctions them2 Because the
presidents of the United States nave per- !
mitted poygamy in Utah, you are not, |
therefore. to conclude that they patronizei |
it, that they approved it, when, on the |
they denounced it. All of Gods |
ancient Israel know 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 polygamv |
recorded-only one. All the mighty men of |
the Bible stood aloof from polygamy, ex- |
fhs. hN into