The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-04-10

34aKu6 OF 4nuGSuIy. MS text was
from Romans iii 4: Let God be true,
but every man liar" He said:
That Is if God says one thing and the
whole human race says the opposite,
Paul would accept the Divine veracity.
But there are many in our time who
have dared to arraign the Almighty for
4alsehoOd Infdelity is not only a
plague, but is the mother of plaques.
1t seems from what we hear on all
sides, that the Christian religion Is a
huge blunder; that the Mosaic account
OF the creation is an absurdity; that
- Adam and Eve never existed; that the
ancient food and Noah's ark were i'm
possibilities; that there never was
miracle; that the Bible is the friend of
cruelty, of murder, of pOlygamy, of all
forms of base crime; that the Christian
religion is vOman's tyrant and mans
qualification; that the Bible from lid
to lid is a fable, cruelty, a hum
bug, a lie that the martyrs
who died for its truth We're miserable
@dupes; that the church of Jesus Christ
is properly gazetted as fool; that when
Thomas Carlyle. the slkeptic, said, 1.-THE
Bible is noble book, - ne was dropping
into imbecilitys that when Theodore
Parker declared in Music hail. Boston,
never a boy or girl in all ChristendOm
but was prOfted by that great book
he was becoming very weak minded;
that it is something to bring blush to
the cheek OF every patriot that John
Adams, the father of American indie
pendence declared, 1.-The Bible is the
best book in all the wOrld;'' and that
iOn-hearted Andrew Jackson turned
into a snivelling coward when he said:
''That book, sir, is the rock on which
our republic rests;' and that Daniel
Webster abdicated the throne of his
intellectual power and resigned his
logic, and from being the great ex-
FOUNDER of the constitution and the
great lawyer of his age, turned into an
idiot when he said: my heart assures
me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ
must be a divine reality. From the
time that at my mothers feet, or on
my fathers knee, I first learned
to lisp verses from the sacred
writing, they have been my daily
study and vigilant contemplation, and
if there is anything in my style or
thought to be commended, the credit is
due to my kind parents in Installing into
nay mind an early love of the script
u=es;' and that William H. Seward, the
diplomatist of the century, only showed
his pueriHty when he declared: 1.-THE
whole hope of human progress is sus-
pended on the eVer-grOwing influences
OF the Bible;'' and that it is visest for
US to take that book from the throne in
the affections of uncounted multitudes,
and put it under our feet to be trampied
upon by hatred and kissing contempt;
and that your old father was hood
NA1lkGOls anu CdIOlGC1s ana C4eaBSCs and
befOOled, when he leaned this as q
staff after his hair grew gray, and his
hands We're tremulOus, and his steps
shortened as he came up to the verge Oh
the grave; and that your mother sat
with pack of lies on her lap while
reading of the better country and of the
ending OF all her aches and pains and
reunion not only with those of you who
stood around her, but with the children
she had buried with infinite heartache,
Alas! that for forty and fifty years
they should have walked under this de
fusion and had it under their pillow
when they lay a-dying in the bach
room, and asked that some words from
the old book might be cut upon the
tombstone under the shadow OF the ole
country meeting house where they
sleep to-day, waiting for a resurrection
that will never come. This book, hav.
ing deceived them, and having deceived
the mighty intellects of the past, mus
not be allowed to deceive our larger
mightieT, vaster, more stupendous in
tellects- And, so out with the bool
from the court room, where it is use,
in the solemnization of testimony Ou
with 1t from under the foundation o
church and asylum. Out with it from
the domestic circle. Gather togethe
all the BibleS-the chiidren'S Bibles
those newly bound. and those with Ii
nearly worn out and pages obliterate
by the fingers long ago turned to dust
bring them all together and let u
make a bonfire of them, and by it warn
our cold criticism. and after that tur'
under with the plowshare OF public in
.dignation the polluted ashes of tina
1OathsOune, adulterous, obscene. crue
and deathfu1 book which is so antagc
nistic to mans liberty and woman
honor and the worlds happiness
Now that is the substance of what in
fidelity proposes and declares, and tn
attack on the Bible is accompanied b
great iocosity, and there is hardly an
subject abEszs which more mirth
l<indled than about the Bible 1t Is nc
healthy to giggle about God, or chuck
about eternity. or snnirk about things c
the immortal soul
Now in this sentiment of infidel thinl