Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-04-11


who get their chief consolation from
this book. What would you think OF a
crusade of this sortg Suppose o man
should resolve that he would organize
conspiracy to destroy all the medicines
from all the apothecaries and from all
the hospitals OF the earth. The work
is done. The medicines are thrown
into the river, or the lake, or the sea
A patient wakes up at midnight in
paroxysm Of distress and wants an
anodyne. ''Oh." says the nurse, 1.-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, and on the absurdities OF
all remedies, but the man continues to
writhe in pain, and the nurse says: Ill
continue TO read you some discourses on
anodynes. the cruelties OF anodynes,
the indecencies Of anodynes, the abb
surdities OF anodynes. For your gr'oan
I I'll give YOU u laugh" Here in the
hospital is patient having gangrcned
| limb amputated. He says: 20. Tor
ether. Oh, for chlorororm. The
doctors say: "Why, they are all des'
troyed; we don't have any more etheror
chloroform: but have got something
great deal better. I'll read you Il pam
phlet against James Y. Simpson, the
discoverer of chloroform as an anas-
; thetic, and against Drs. Agnew and
Hamilton, and Hosack, and Mott, and
Harvey, and Abernethy." But" says
the man. IL must have some an9sthe-
tic" mo" say the doctors, ''they are
all destroyed, but we have got some
thing great deal better" what Is
that" Fun" Fun about medicines.
Lie down, all We patients in Bellevue
hospital and stop your groaning-all
broken hearted OF all the cities. and
quit your crying: we have the catholi-
con ut last. Here is dose OF wit, here
is strengthening plaster OF sarcasm,
here is a bottle OF ribaldry that you are
TO keep well shaken up and take a
spoonful of it after each meal, and II
that does not cure you. here is q sOlu-
ton of blasphemy in which you may
battle, and here is tincture OF derision.
Tickle the skeleton OF death with o re-
partee. Make the king OF terrors
cackle. For all the agonies OF all the
ages, a joke. Millions of people willing
with uplifted hands toward heaven to
affirm that tine gospel Of Jesus Christ is
full of consolation for them, and yet
infdelity proposes to 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?
Furthermore, cannot be an infidel
because Of the false charges intidelity
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 polvgamy. Does the God OF the
Bible uphold polygamy, or did he? How
many wives did God make for Adam?
He made one wife. Does not your COM
mon sense tell you when God started
the marriage institution he started it
rs he wanted it to continue? Ii God
have 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 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. II the God and
the Bible had favored multiplicity OF
wives, he would have spared u 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-
viticus, xviii, Is, God thunders his pro-
hibition 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, 10 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 400 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,
monOgamists. 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-
vid suffered for his crimes in the cav
ems of Adullam and Massada, in the
wilderness OF Mahanaim in the bereave-
ments of Ziklag. The Bedonins after