The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-09

wants an anodyne. '.Oh," says the nurse,
THE anodynes are all destroyed we have
no drops to give you, but instead OF that
III read you book on the absurdities OF
morphine, and on the absurdities OF al
remedies" But the man continues to
writhe in pain, and the nurse says: 'Tll
continue to read you some discourses on
anodynes, the cruelties OF anodynes, the in
decencies of anodynes. the sbsurdites OF
anodynes. For your groans, I'll give you
having gangrened limb ampu-
tated. He says, ''Oh, for ether. Oh,
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. IN
read you a pamphlet against James I.
Simpson, the discoverer OF chloroforn as an
anassthetic and against Doctors Agnew. and
Hamilton. and Hosack, and Mott, and Har-
yey. and a bernethy.n But says the
man, Il must have some anesthetlcs.
NO" say the doctors, they are all de-
stroyed but we have got something great
deal better" What is thatl' "Fun."
patients in Bellevue hospital and stop your
groaning-all We broken-hearted OF all the
cities, and quit your crying; we have the
cathoicon at last.
HERB re DOSE OF WIT,
here is strengthening plaster OF sarcasm,
here is bottle Of ribaIdry that you are 10
keep we'll shaken up and take a spoonful OF
it after each meal, and if that does not cure
YOU here is q solution OF blasphemy in
which YOU may battle, and here is tincrure
Of deris ion. Tickle the skeleton Of death
with arepartee! Make the King of Terrors
cackie For all the agonies Of all the ages,
joke. Millions Of people willing with up
lifted hand toward heaven to affirm That the
gospel of Jesus christ is full OF consolation
for them, and yet infdelity proposes 10
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 all Gods UNI
verse;
Infidelity is religion of Don't know. :"
Is there Code Don't knowl Is the soul
immortal! Don't know! + we should
meet each other in the future world will we
recognize each other2 Don't know! A re-
ligion OF don't know for the religion or
Il know" Il know in whom l have be-
lieved" 81 know that my Redeemer hy-
eth"
Infidelity 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 mi2htiest JOY OF
earth not high enough 10 reach to the base
of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor await
al IIlOSt w no Oh W Va
will soar toward 1t.
Have YOU heard of the conspiracy 10 put
out all the lighthouses on the coaStf Do
you know that on a certain night OF next
month, Eddystone lighthouse, Bel Rock
lighthouse, Sherryvore lighthouse, Mon
tauk lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse, New
London lighthouse, Barnegat lighthouse,
and the go lighthouses on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts are to be eXtinguishedf
"Ohn YOU say, what will become OF the
ships on that night2 What will be the
fate Of
THE ONE MILLION SAILORS
following the sea- What will be the doom
of the millions Of passengers 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 iptdelity is trying to Go.
put out ali the lighthouses on the coast OF
eternity letting the soul go up the Mar
| rows" of death with no light, no comfort,
no peace-ali that coast covered with the
blackness of darkness. Instead Of the great
lighthouses a glOWworm of wit, FREELY OF
| jocosity. Which do you like the better, oh
voyager for eternity-the freely or the
| lighthouse2 What a mission intidelity has
| started on. The eXtinguishment OF light
| houses, the breaking up of lifeboatS, the
dismissal OF all tbs pilots, the turning OF
the inscription on your child's grave into a
| farce and a lie. Walter SCOTS "OId Nor
tality,'' chisel in hand, went through the
| land to cut out into palmer letters the half
! oDliterated inscriptions on the tombstones,
| and it was beautiful mission. But inf.
delity spends its time 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
Of - al n inn for the 1vID
a freezing sneer: instead of prayer grim
ace: instead Of Paul's triumphal defiance Of
| death a going out you know not where, to
| stop you know not when, TO DO you know
not what. That is infdelity.
Furthermore: ! cannot be an infidel, be-
cause of the false charges intidelity 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 he Z
How many wives did God n AXE for Adam
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 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 mouogamy and
antagoniStic TO polygamy. 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. If the God of the Bible
had favored u 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 spared for
| Noah one wife. for Ham one wife, for Shem
one wife, for Japhet one wife. Does that
! look as though God favored polygamy2 In
| Leviticus xviii, Is God thunders his prohi-
| bition 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. as you well know, but He
does not sanction them. Who would dare
| to say He sanctions them2 Because the
| presidents of the United States have per-
nitted polygamy in Utah, you are not,
| therefore, to conclude that they patronized
it. that they approved it, when, on the
| contrary. 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 polygamy
recorded-only one. AL the mighty men of
| the Bible stood aloof from polygamy, eX-
| cept those who, falling into the crime, We're
| chastised within an inch of their lives.
| Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshua, Sam
uel, monogamists. But you say: Didn't
David and Solomon favor polygamy2" Yes,