Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-04-11
FREELY or the lighthouses

Inc breaking up OIL llreOOatS, tue uIS
missal of all the pilots, the turning Of
the inscription on your child's grave
into farce and a lie. Walter Scott
Old Mortality, chisel in hand, went
through the land to cut into. palmer
letters the half obliterated Inscriptions
i on the toInbstones, and it was a beau
tiful mission, But intdelity spends its
time with hammer and chisel trying tc
cut out from the tolnbstones of youl
dead all the story of resurrection and
heaven. 1t is the iconoclast of every
village graveyard, and of every city
cemetery, and of Westminster Abbey.
Instead of Christian consolation for the
dying. Il, freezing sheer. Instead o.
prayer, a griihaco Instead of Pnul'l
triumphant defiance of death, a going
i out you know not Where, to stop yor
j know not when, to do you know moi
! what. That is inlidelity.
FOLLY oRsTHK PoLyGAMIsT's CLAIM.
@ Furthermore, lscannot be an intide
because Of Tire false charges intidelit!
SIS all tho time making against thu
4 Bible. Perhaps the Islander that lia'
made the most impression and thai
some Christians have not been inte!li
gent enough to deny is that the
Bible favors polygMny. Does the Goo
OF the Bible uphold polygnmy. or did
hea How many wives did God make
for Adaln2 He made one wife. Does
not your common sense tell you when
God started the marriage Institution he
started it rs he wanted it to continued
If God had favored polygalny be 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 monogainy
and antagonistic to polygany. Cen
esis ii, "a, Therefore shall 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 ark2 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 a 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 Slleln one wife. for Japllet one
wife Does that Iooa as though God
favored poIyg4lnyi In Leviticus xviii,
! is, God thunders his prohibition of
more than one wife
God permitted polygarny. Yes; just
as he permits today murder and theft
and arson and all kinds of crime. He
permits these things, rs you well know,
but he does not sanction them. Who
would dare to say he sanctions them7
Because the presidents of the United
States have permitted polygamy in
Utah you are not, therefore, to con-
clude that they patronized it, that they
approved it, when, on the contrary,
they denounced it. All of Gods an
ic6fieent Israel knew that fhe 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 polygamy rccorded-only 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, lnonoganists. But you say,
sDidn'r David and Solomon favor
polygamy7" Yes, and did they not get
we'll punished for it9 Read the lives OF
those two men, and you will come to
the conclusion that oil the attributes
of Gods nature were against their be-
havior. David suffered for his crimes
in the caverns of Adullain and Massada,
in the wilderness of Mallanailn, in the
bereavements of Ziklag. The Bcdonins
after him, sickness after him. Absaioln
after him, Ahithopel after him, Adoni-
jah after lli;.l. the Edolnites after him,
the Syrians after him. the Moabites
after him. death after him. the Lord
God Almighty after him. The poorest
peasant in all the empire married to
the plainest Jewess was happier than
tl,e l,inr in his marital ulisbellavior.
How did Solomon get along with
polygamy. Read his warnings in
Proverbs, read his self disgust in Ecclesi-
astes. He throws up his hand in loath-
ing and cries out, Vanity of vanitics,
all is vanity" His seven hundred
wives nearly pestered the life out OF
him. Solomon got we'll paid for his
crimes paid. l repeat that all
the mighty men Of the Scriptures were
aloof from polygalny, save as they were
pounded and failed and cut to pieces
for their insult to holy marriage. Ii
the Bible is friend of polygainy why
is it that in all the lands where the BIZ
BILE predominates polygalny is forbid
den, and in all the lands where there Is
no Bible it is favored. Polygarny all
over China, oil over India, all over Af-
RIGA, all over Persia, all over heathen-
dom, save as the missionaries have
done their work; while polygamy does
not exist in England and the United
States, except in defiance of law. The
Bible abroad, God honored monog-
amy. The Bible not abroad, God
abhorred polygamy.
BEAUTIFUL BIBLE PICTURES OF wo-
MAN. ::
Another false charge Which infidelity
has made against the Biblr is that it is
antagonistic to woman; that it enjoins
her degradation and belittles her mis-
sion. Under this impression many