i . PUBXISHSD BT KOANOKB PUBLISHING Co. : "FOR GOD, JfOIt COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. C. V. W Ausbow, BubCTEss Manager. VOL. II. PLYMOUTH, N. O., FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1891. NO. 49. P.T.:BAHNOMDEiD.;i 'V : : . , . . ' . TkolTai...- Ill ". rt n . ' iuv vuwmn Dnowman mcs at jjriage , " . " port, Conn. Remarkable Career' of, a Shrewd Bail ness Man Whom Reverses- Conld not " . . . DUcoiirdge-A Bnif tlf. ;F. T. Barnum, tho great showman, passed away at 6:20 o'clock P. M., at his hone in Bridgeport, Conn., in the presence of his grief, stricken family, after on illness of 21 weeks. The scene in Ihe dying man's chamber was deeply pathetic. Mr. Barnum was fully awake and conscious, Although his nearly exhausted physical pwcrs made it impossible for him to talk- Tiie"afl-ctionate messages he con veyed with his eyes to the weeping attendants , , wire more expressive than words., With the e x e.rtion of t i nslf 1 II we. e in tears. 1'. T. BARNCM. At 3:30 o'clock Air. Bur it urn nink into a comatose condition, iron) which it wns evi dent that there would . be little hope of his again returning tr consciousness. -When the end finally came it was peaceful and to all appearances painless. . ',-',-. The physicians say that Mr. Barnum had no organic, disease - wnarever, the enfeebled heart action,' which had been apparent lor the ,. past lew months, being Hue to u grauuai lan ure of his general tueutul powers, resulting iroru old age. " 'In a general way ". Mr.-Barnum has pre scribed directions for his funeral. , JIo wished, it to be t a private character aud uuostenU-: lious. Of show and pa rude he said he had jihii pnmiffn inirittfr mu lira nni mn rnnimii' inent to his lust resting place he wished de void of all ceremony beyond the simplest trib . t uto ol affection and Fespect. lie directed that the interment should be made in Mountain Grove Cemetery, where several years ago he pie design. A ., , " Mr. Barnum' Career. '. Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in Bethel Conn., on July 5, 1810. He received a few years' schooling in the common schools of his nativo state, ana at the age of 12 was noted for bit quickness at figures and his shrewd ness al.uriviug stiff bargains with" his play mates. ' 11 is first regular occupation was as clerk In a country store. In 1831 he entered journal inn, and fir three years we find him editing Th c Herald f Fretdom. 1 lu 1536 he entered upon' his life work by engaging iu the circus business with Aaron Turner, ot Daukury. lie was interested in vanous amusement enterprises until Decern ber 27, 18il, when he first appeared as pro- 'prietor of Barnuiu's American Museum, then located at the corner of Broadway and Ann M reets, ?lew York. It was here 1 hat Gen. Tom Tliuuib was firt introduced to public noto riety, in 1842. Two years later Mr. Barnum . visited Europe with this la mom dwarf. Edward Everett was then Minister to England and lie arranged for the presentation ot Tom ' Thumb and Mr. Barnum to Queen Victoria, and subsequently to Leopold, King of Bel- fians, the Uuke of We)linitoiifcthe Emperior Nicholas, the King of Saxony, and Ibrahim l'asba. Visiting Paris, he appeared , before Louis Philippe. ' , ' - " Iu 184U Mr. Barnum purchased the Phila deiphia Museum. At tnis time he was also presidentol theFairtieJd County Agricultural tiocietyand the lojlowing year he delivered " the annual address before that body, In 1850 he accepted the presidency of the then new. Tequonuoek Bans of Bridgeport, and while thus engaged iu managing two museums in the two Jui'Kest cities in America, president ot an agricultural society and of a bank, and interested iu ond directing a dozen dittereot travelling exhibitions in as many diflerent parts of tue world, he brought to this country the fumous songstress. Jenny Li,ndt The . excitement created by ber appearance in the United States is twell remembered by all citizens of middle age. As an evidence of his foresight in this matter; it should be remem bered that he ?plii6kily advanced $200,000 upon her engagement beioro khe departed Irota England. Mr. Barnum' total receipts from Do concerts gireu by Jenny Liud were 712,Itl.34.'vM..:. :v-.r . At the close of Jenny Liud's engagement, in 1851, he organized nis "Asiatic Uaravau,. Museum and Alenagerie," purchasing a fchip and sending it to the Eat Indie lor a cargo of elephants for his show. In 1832 he again entered the newspaper Held, investing 20,000 in and establishing the ,New York Illustrated News.1 Jn 185a fame the Jerome Clock Com pany entaiiglmeiM,;-vrhereb be was over, whelmed with more tiaus half a million of liabilities. Uncharging )rdylar of his private indebtedness, Air. Barnum, at the age of 40, was not only ayfioor man, but, ut first sight, apparently a ruiurd one. : ' ittsuiiiing his tr.tvel 111 1857, he again visited EitKlnd,aeoiiitpnni.d l-yTom Thumb aud other attractions, and made an exteuileU tour throughout Great Britain, Fraiice anf Geimtuiy. It wiib uunng tl is vimt td EuroiJ that Mr. Biiiunm firm iiclivered, in VomhJ, iiia lecture,' entitled "Ihe Art of vetting Money." In 180 Mr. Baruum returneairoui his second trans-Atlanud tour, tne object of which had been to earn the means to liquidate his Jerome Clock Compmiy indebtedness. Meantime, his lund in Eust Bridgeport, which a few years previous was usse.'sea at 3b',000, iu J855J was taxed lorseveial hundred thou tand dollars. Barnum was himself again." Other reverses, however, were Ju store for him.. ;T v 4- l ' - In Ju!y, I61W, Ins Isew J oik Museum was destroyedr ty lire. By this disaster property valued ut io.OOO. and upon wliicii there .was only 4U,!M) iusurauce, was swept out of existence. ... In Jet-s than four months his new museum, ' farther up Bnmdway, was opened to the pub lic. His next amusement enterprise was the orgsnizaiion of hi "Great Traveling V'or)d,s 1'tiir'' in 142. . After a suvcessiul summer eampii'n wiii this exliioiuou tie purchased iu tn iH of 17J a liiiiuiceiit iron building on l''niririiii rirt'ft, iNew YorK. called the Jlil't'i'ihettion," ud commenced 11 tcritt ot tntertainments' there. Four weeks after his first exhibition in this building: it, .too, was entirely destroyed by fire, the losi amounting to t300,000. vlhus, in a Jew years, Mr. Bar num had lost by fire his. costly and beautiful Iranirtau residence, his two great museums in New York, and his ' World's Pair's building, entailing a loss upon him of fully $1,200,000. In 1870 and 1877 he organized and put upon the road another and more novel tented exhi bition, aud In 1879-80, through his "captur ing" the combined shows of his formidable rivals, Bailey and Cooper, he put on the road the largest and most complete of any of his amusement enterprises The firm for sjme years was a formidable one in the point of numbers, embracing ns it did at different times, besides Mr. Barnum, J. L. Hutchinson, W. W. Cole, J, A. Bailey audjas. E. Cooper. In October, 1887, all these partners . retired except Mr. Bailey. Mr. Hutchinson, one of the retiring partners, is said to have saved fully $1,000,000 out of his share of the profits during the time he was connected with the "Aggregation." Soon after the feorganlza tion of Ihe firm Mr. Barnum'sold enemy, the flames, cleaned out the menagerie part of the how while it was in winter quarters at Bridge port, Conn. ,', v At the beginning of the season of 1889 Mr. Barnnm struck a truce with his formidable rival, the late Adam Forepaugh.' , At the elose of the season ot 1889, Mr. Bar num transported his entire "Aggregation" to London, where he astonished the natives with a midwinter senxou of American circti. The Jumbo episode occurred in 1882. Mr. Burn urn's agents arrived in London in Febru ary of that year and purchased the great ele phant from the Zoological Society, for 2,000. lie was the farsest eleuhaut ever seen in civilized countries, standing 11 feet high at the shoulders, and woighiug five tons. He could reach with his trunk to a height of 25 feet, and, although gaunt and without tusks, he made a most imposing figure in the "great moral show. He Was-Tcilled in a railro td accident, amd Mr. (Barnnm presented li skeleton to the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. ' v v- -. Mr. Bnruum was also something of a poli t iiD. He commenced life as a Jacksonian Democrat: but in 1860 he allied himself with the Republican party. , He served several terms iu the Connecticut Legislature, was once Mayor of Bridgeport, was an unsuccess ful candidate for Congress and was once talked of for the United States Senate. " This sketch may be appropriately closed by a condensation of Mr. Barnum's own views on the "Art of Money-Getting." It forms the summary of the old showman's conclusions 011 that weighty subject, as reached in a lec ture ort the topic, delivered firstia London during the Tom Thumb campaign aud re peated frequently afterward in this country: "Don't drink; don't be above your business; don't mistake your vocation; select the right vocation; avoid debt; persevere; whatever you do, do with alf your might; depend upon your own personal exertions; use the best tools; don't scatter your powers; be systema tic; read the newspapers; beware of outside operatiouo; don't, endorse without good se curity; advertise your business; be polite and kind to your customers; be charitable; don't tell what you are going to do, and preserve y. u. integrity." . , y DAVE NICELY'S CONFESSION. He Does Kt Say Bat Implies That Joe Killed Umherger. ' The following confession of . Dave Nicely has been made public: Somertct 'Jail, Somerset, Pa. I, Dave Nicely, make concerning the murder of Herman Umberger, for which I am convicted and sentenced to be hung April 2, the follow ing statement: I was present when Herman Umberger was murdered. I left my home about 1 o'clock on February 27, 188!1, to go to some place in Somerset county for the pur poseot robberyif not murder, and didnotkuow whowas to be robbed, not learning Umberger'i name until well along on the road. The murder took place about seven o'clock in the evening. I arrived at 'home about 1 or 2 o'clock next morning. I had a pistol and fired into the ceiling, but not with the inten tion of hitting Mr. Umberger, nor did any shot I fired hit him. I intended only to frighten him. As to my evidence in court, part was true and part was not. My evidence was not true iu this: I said 1 wps not present at Herman Umberger's murder wheu I was. The pocketbook produced in court as mine was not the one which 1 gave to Will Thomas, as I testified in court. It was bogus. Hamil ton Smith's testimony in tho case against me was false Inr this; I was not in Liguuier on Febrnary 27, 1888, as he swore. Lew Uener . and Ej McCracken did not meet me on the pike as stated in court. Charles Veeuer and Lewis Veener, his ,son, could not have recog iiized me, as tneir testimony says Usfy did, 011 thu Pittsburg and PhiiadelphiapikeFeWuary 27, l&&y. I make this statement in view of approaching execution, in fear of God, truth', fully to C. W, Granger, my spiritual adviser. " Dave Nicely and his brother Joe, who were hanged for Farmer Umberger'a murder, pro tested innocence on the scaffold. While he does not say so, it is thought David intended to convey the idea that Joe committed the murder : i . ? 1 . THEY KILLED THE MISER. Ills Divorced Wife Said that lie Had Hidden 111 Money. . Alexander Snyder, a wealthy citizen, of Gpjhen, Ind .was found dead in bed early the other morningwith one side of his skull crushed Search was at once begun, and within a couple of hours two tramps, were behind the bars, charged with the crime. Several articles bet longing to Snyder were found in their pos. session. Pressure was brought to bear upon them to induce thent to consess, and one of them finally consented. , ... , Tlis confession discloses a romantic story of well-planed crime. Fifteen years ago Snyder came here from Germany, accompanied by: his wile and one child, lie was moderately, well ofT. but be had the most miserly habits. This led to frequent bickerings between him self and wife, until she finally left him, after procuring a divorce and alimony, to live with iriends in New York city. Sineo her depart ure Snyder has been growing more weuithy r .id miserly, till at.the time of his murder he was living in almost absolute squalor. The murderer say he used to be well ac quainted with Mrs. Snyder in Hew York and mat she often pke of her former husband's habit and once incidentally mentioned that he usually kept a large sum of money concealed under the floor. Actins upon this information he and bis partner came West with tbeiuten.. tion of getting hold of the cash. They awakened the old man, and, to quiet him, gave him a blow over the head, but did not intend to kill him. They did not find the money; and were returning to the East when arrested. . ; . . DEATH OP GOV. F0 WEE. The Executive of Xorlh Carolina Eiplrel ; Suddenly at Ilaleigh. A special dispatch from Raleigh,' N.' C, . - i:" i .j:,i ....1. says: "tioveruor iauiej u. -vwio uim deoly here nt 11.30 P. M. The cause of hiB (Ji?Wl IS IJUJ'j USCU IV ut UV1U w.v. REV, BB. TM,lTAGfl. . Tne Eminent Brtokryn Divine's sun day Sermon. Cabjectl "The Plague of Infidelity-' Tkxt: "Let God be true, hut every man a liat. Romans iii., 4. 'That is if God says one thing and tha whole human race says the opposite, Paul would accept the Divine veracity. But there are many in our time who have dared arraign the Almighty - for falsehood. Infidelity is not only a plague, but it is the mother of plagues:;:" It seems from what we hear on all sides that the Christian religion is a huge Man-' der; that the Mosaic account ot the creation is an absurdity large enough to throw all nations into rollicking guffaw; th5 Adam and Eve never existed; that the ancient flood and Noah's ark were impossibilities; that there never was a miracle; that the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polygamy, of all forms of base crime; that the Christian religion is woman's tyrant and man's stultification; that the Bible from lid to lid is a fable, a cruelty, a hum bug, a f ham, a lie; that the martyrs who died for its truth were miserable dupe; that the church " of Jesus Christ isr properly gazstted as a fool; that when Thomas Carlyle, the skeptic, said, "The Bible is a noble book," he was dropping into imbecility;, that when Theodore Parker declared in Music hall, Boston, "Never a boy or girl in all Christendom but was profited by that ereat book," he was be coming very weak minded; that it is some thing to bring a blush to the cheek of every patriot that John Adams, the father of American independence, declared, "The Bible is the best book in all the world;" and that lion hearted Andrew Jackson turned into a sniveling coward when he said, Tbat boo.V, sir. is the rock on which our re public rests;" and that Daniel Webster ab dicated the throne of his intellectual power and resigned his logic, and from being tho great expounder of the constitution and the great lawyer of his age turned into an idiot when he said, "My heart assures and reas sures me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality. Prom the time that at my mother's f pet or on my : father's knee I first learned to lisp -verses from the sacred writings they have been my daily study and vigilant contemplation, and if there is any thing in my style or thought to be commend ed the credit is due to my kind parents in in stilling into my mind an early love of the Scriptures;" and that William H. Seward, the diplomatist of the century, only 6howed his puerility when he declared, . "The whole hope of hnman progress is suspended on the evergrowing influences of the Bible;" and that it is wisest for ns to take that book from the throng in the affections of uncounted multitudes and put it under our feet, to be trampled upon by hatred and hissing contempt; and that your old father was hoodwinked and cajoled' and cheated and befooled when he leaned on this as a staff after his hair grew gray, and his hands were tremulous, and hi stepsj shortened as he came up to the verge of the' grave; and that your mother sat with a 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 heart ache, so that she could read no mora until she took off her spectacles and wiped from them the heavy mist of manytearsv Alas! that for forty and fifty years they should have walked under this delusion and .had ituxder their pillow when they lay a-dying in the back room, and asked that some words from the vile page might be cut upon the tombstone under the shadow, of the old country meeting house where they sleep to-day waiting for a resurrection that will never come. This book, having deceived them, and hav ing deceived the mighty intellects of the pa&t, must not be allowed to deceive our larger, mightier, vaster, more stupendous intellects. And so out with the book from the court room, where it is used in the solemn ization of testimony.' Out with it from un der the foundation of church and asylum. Out with it from the domestic circle. Gather together all the Bibles the children's Bibles, the family Bibles, thnee newly bound, and those with lid nearly worn out and pages al most obliterated by the fingers : long ago fturaed to dust bring them all together, and let us make' a bonfire of them, and by it. warm our cold criticism, and after that turn' under with the plowshare of public indig nation the polluted ashes of that loathsome, adulterous, obscene, cruel and deathful book which is so antagonistic to man's liberty, and" and woman's honor, and . the world's happiness. . 1 Now that is the substance of what infidel ity proposes and declares, and the attack on the Bible is accompanied bj great jocosity, and there is hardly any subject about which ' more minth is kindled than about the Bible. Ilikefunno man was ever built with a keener appreciation of it. There is health in laughter instead of harm physical health, mental health moral health, spiritual health provided yon laugh at the right thing. iiie morning is jocuna. xne mama wim its own mist baptizes the cataract Minnehaha, or Laughing Water. You have not kept your eyes open cr your ears alert if you have not seen the sea smile, or heard the forests clap their hands, or the orchards in blossom week agles with redolence. But there is a laughter which has the rebound of despair. It is not healthy to giggle about God or chuckle about eternity or smirk about the things of the immortal soul. , You know what caused the accident years ago on the Hucbon River Railroad. It was an intoxicated man who for a joke pulled the string of the air brake and stopped the train at the most dangerous point of the journey. But the lightning train, not knowing there was any impediment in the way, came down, crushing out of the mangled victims the im mortal souls that went speeding instantly to God and judgment. It was only a joke. He thought it would be such fun to stop the train He stopped it. And so infidelity is chiefly anxious to stop the long train of the Bible, and the long train of the churches, and the long train of Cbristrian influenced, while coming down upon us are death, judg ment and eternity, coming a thousand miles a minute, coming with mora force than all the avalanches that ever slipped from the Alps, coming with more strength than all the lightning express trains that ever whis tled or shrieked or thundered across the con tinent. Now in this jocularity of infidel thinkers I cannot join, and I propose to give yousome reasons why I cannot be ah infidel, and so I will try to help out f this pretent condition any who may have been struck with the avful piague of skepticism. First, I cannot be an infidel because infi delity has no good substitute for the conso lation it proposes to take away. You know there are millions of people who get their chief consolation from thij book. ' What would you think of a crusade of this sort? 4 Suppose a man suoula resolve that &e, would organlie a conspiracy to destroy all the medicines from all the apothecaries and from all the hospitals of the earth. The work is doDP. Tr.e medicines are taken, and they are tl.ro wu into the riveivoi- the la!;e, o the tea. ' A patient wakes up at midnight lu a par oxysm 01 distress, ana wants an anodyne. ,'Oh,,,, says the nurse, "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 morphine and the absur dities of all remedies." But the man contin ues to writhe in pain, and tho nurse says: "I'll continue to read yon some discourses on anodynes, the cruelties of anodynes, tha in decencies of anodynes, the absurdities of anodynes. For your groan I'll give you a laugn." - ... , , . Here in the hospital is a patient having a gangrened limb amputated. ' He says: "Oh, for ether I Oh, for chloroform 1' The doc tor says: "Why, they are all destroyed1; -we don't have any more chloroform or ether, but I have got something a great deal bet ter. , Til read you pamphlet against James Y. Simpson, the discoverer of chloro form as an anaesthetic, and against Drs. Ag new and Hamilton and Hosack and Mott and-Harvey and . Abernethy." But," says the man, "I must have some anaesthetics." "No," says tho doctor, they are all de stroyed, but we have got something a ereat deal better." "What is that?" VFun." Fun about medicine. , Lie down, all ye pa tients in Bellevue Hospital, and stop your groaning, all ye broken hearted of. all the cities, and quit your crying; we have the catholicon at last. Here is a dose of wit, here is a strengthen 5 ?laste1' of sarcasm, here is a bottle of ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken up nun iauo a Bpooniui or ic alter each meaL ond if that does not cure you here is a rota tion of blasphemy in which you may bathe, and here is a tincture of derision. Tickle the skeleton of death with a reoartee! 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 the Gospel of Jesus Christ is full of consolation for them, and yet infidel ity proposes to take it away, giving nothing, . absolutely nothing, except fun. Is there any greater height or depth or length or breadth or immensity of meanness in all God's uni verse? - ...... -. Infidelity is a religion of "Don't know." Is there a God? Don't know ! Is- the soul immortal? Don't know! If we should meet each other in the future world will we recog nize each other? Don't know! A religion of "don't know", for -the religion of "I know," "I know in whom I have believed." "I know that my Redeemer liveth." Infi delity proposes to substitute a religion of awful negatives for onr religion of glorious positives, showing right before us a world of reunion and ecstacy and high companionship and glorious worship ana stupendous vic tory, the mightiest joy of, earth not high enough to reach to the base of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor awaiting all 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 coa;t? Do you know that on a certain niihtof next month, Eddystone lighthouse, Bell Rock licht house. Sherryvore lighthouse, Montauk lighthouse, Hatteras lighthouse. New London light house, Barnegat lighthouse, and the 640 lighthouses on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are to be extinguished? "Oh," you say, "what will become of the sbins on that night? 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 a conspir acy?" , Every man, woman and child in America and the world. But that is only a fable.' That is what infidelity is trying to do put out all the lighthouses on the coast of eternity, letting the soul go up the "Nar rows" or death witn no Jignt, no comicrc, peace all that coast covered with ds ness of darkness. Instead of the great house, a glowworm of wit, a firefly of , itv. Which do you like the better, O ager for eternity, the firefly or the light- bouser What a mission infidelity has started on! The extinguishment of lighthouses, the breaking up of lifeboats, the dismissal of all the pilots, the turning of the inscription on your child's grave into a farce and a lie. Walter Scott's "Old Mortality," chisel in band, went through the land to cut out into plainer letters the half obliterated inscrip tions on the tombstones, and it was a beau tiful mission; but infidelity spends its time with hammer and chisel trying to cut out from the tombstones of your dead all the story of resurrection and heaven. r It is the iconoclast of every village graveyard and of every city cemetery and of Westminster Ab bey. Instead of Christian consolation for the dying, a freezing sneer. Instead of prayer a grimace. Instead of Paul triumphant defiance of death, a going out you know not where, to stop you know not when, to do you know not what. That is in fidelity. Furthermore: I cannot be an infideL be cause of the taise charges infidelity is all the time making against the Bible. Perhaps the slander that has made the most impression and that some Christians have not been in telligent enough to deny is that the Bible favors polygamy. 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 common sense tell you when God started tho marriage institu tion He started it as He wanted it to con tinue? 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 antago nistic to polygamy. Genesia ii., 24. "There fore 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 6pare for Noah in tho ark? Two and two the birds; two and two the cattle; two and two the lious; two and two the human race. If the God of the Bible had favored a multiplicity of wives He would have spared a plurality of wives. - When God first launched the human race He gave Adam ona wife. At the second launching of the human race He spares for Noah one wife, for Ham one wife, for 8 hem one wife, for Japhet one wife. Does that look as though God favored polygamy? In Leviticus xviit., 18, God thunders His prohibition of more than ene wife, r ' '- . 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 them? Because the Presidents of the United States have permitted poly gamy in Utah, you are not therefore, to con clude that they patronized it, that they ap proved it, when, on the contrary, they de nounced It. All of God's ancient Israel knew 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 caie of polygamy recorded only one. All the mighty men of the Bible stood aloof from polygamy except those who, falling Into the crime, were chastized within an inch of their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshua, Samuel, monogamists. But you say, "Didn'tDavid and Solomon favor pologamy" Yes; and did they not get vell punished for it? Fi,ead the lives of those two men and you wiU come to the conclusion that all the at tributes of God's nature were against their: behavior. David suffered for his crimes in the caverns of Adullam and Massada, in the wilderness of Mahanann, in the bereave mrmj of Zikirtg. The HcJonins ettcr him, tac'ineas after him, Absalom afw.iv Liia, DO piact- htr J Ahithopel after him, Adonijah after him. the Edomites after him, the Syrians after him, the Moabites after him, death after him, the Lord God Almighty after hiu The poorest peasant in all tha empire mar ried to the plainest Jewess was happier than ' the iCing in his marital misbehavior. How did Solomon get along with polygamy? Read his warnings in Proverbs; readhhiselfg disgust in Ecclesiastes. He throws up hi hands in loathing and cries out, "Vanity o , vanities, all is vanity." His seven hundred wives nearly pestered the life) out of him. ' Solomon got well paid for his crimes well paid. I repeat that all the mighty men of the Scriptures were aloof from polygamy, save as they were pounded and flailed and cut to pieces for their insult to holy marriage. If the Bible is the friend of polygamy why la it that in all tha lands where the Bible pre dominates polygamy is forbidden, and in the ; lands where there is no Bible it is favored. Polygamy all over China, all over India, all over Africa, all over Persia, all over heathen dom, save as tha missionaries have done their work, while polygamy does not exist in England and the United States, except in de fiance of law. The Bible abroad, God hon ored monogamy. The Bible not abroad, God abhorred polygamy. j: Another false charge which r infidelity has made against the Bible is that it is antago nistic to woman, that it enjoins her degrada tion and belittles her mission. Under this impression many women have been over come of this plague of infidelity. Is the Bible the enemy of woman ? Come into the picture gallery, the Louvre the Luxembourg of the Bible, and ms which trfctures are the mora honored. Here is Eve, a perfect woman; as perfect a woman as could , be made by a perfect God. Here is Deborah, with her womanly arm hurling a host into battle. Hera is Miriam, leadine the Israel itish - orchestra on the banks of thg Red Sea. Here is motherly Hannah, with her own loving hand repJnishin the wardrobe of her eon Samuel, tho pronbet. Here is Abigail, kneeling at the foot of the mountain until the tour ' hundred wrathful men, at the sight of her beauty and prowess halt, halt a hurricane stopped at the s'pht of a water lily, a dew drop dashing back Ni agara. Here is Rnth putting to shame all modern slang about mothers-in-law as she turns her back on her home and her countrv, and faces wild beasts and exile, and death that she may be with Naomi, her husband's -mother. Ruth, the queen of the harvest, fields. Ruth, the grandmother of David. Ruth, the ancestress of Jesus Christ. The story of her virtues and her life sacrifice is the most beautiful pastoral ever written Here is Vashti defying the bacchanal of a thousand drunken lords, and Esther will ing to throw her Ufa away - that she mav deliver her people. And here is Dorcaa. tha sunlight of eternal fame gilding her philan thropic needle, and the woman with perfume in a box made from the hills of Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on the head of Christ, the aroma lingering all down the corridor of the centuries. Here is Lydia, the raerchan tess of Tyrian purple immortalized for her Christian behavior. r Here is the widow with. two mites, more famous than the Peabodys. and the Lenoxes of all the ages, while here "omea in slow of gait and with careful atten dants and with especial honor and high favor, leaning on the arm of inspiration, one who is the joy and pride of any home so rarely fortunate as to have one, an old Christian grandmother. Grandmother Lois. Who has more worshipers to-day than any being that ever Uvea on earth except Jesus Christ? Mary. For what purpose did Christ perform. His first miracle upon earth? To relieve the embarrassment of a womanly housekee-oer Sat the falling short of a beverage. ? Why did Christ break up the silence of the tomh. and tear off the shroud, and rip up tbe rocks? It was to stop the bereavement of the two Bethany sisters. For whose comfort was Christ most anxious in the hour of dying excruciation? . For a woman, an old woman, a wrinkle faced woman, a woman who in other days had held Him in ber arms. His first friend. His last friend, as it is very apt to be. His mother. All the pathos of the ages compressed into one utterance, "Behold thy mother." Does the Bible antagonize woman? If the Bible is so antagonistic to woman, how do you account for the difference in woman's condition in China and Central Africa, and her condition in England and America? There is no difference except that which the Bible makes. In lands where there is no Bible she is hitched like a beast of bur den to the plows, she carries the hod. she sub mits to indescribable indignities. She must be kept in a private apartment, and If she come forth she must be carefully hooded and religiously veUed as though it were a shame to be a woman. Do you not know that the very first thing the Bible does when it comes into a new country is to strike off the shackles of woman's serfdom? O woman, where are your chains to-day ? Hold up both your, arms and let ns see your handcuffs. Oh, we see the handcuffs. They are bracelets of gold bestowed by husbandly or fatherly or brotherly or sisterly or lovely affection. Ua- loosen the warm robe from your neck, O woman, and let us see the yoke of your bond age. Oh, I find the yoke a carcenet of silver, or a string of cornelians, or a cluster of pearls, that must gall you very much. How bad you must all have it. . 5 ' Since you put the Bible on your stand in the sitting room, has the Bible been to you, O woman, a curse or a blessing? Why is it that a woman when she 1b troubled will go to her worst enemy, the Bible? Why do you not go for comfort to some of the great infidel books, Spinoza's "Ethics," or Hume's "Natural History of Religion," or Paine's "Age of Reason,- or any one of the 230 volumes of Voltaire? No, the silly deluded woman persists in hanging about our Bible verses, "Let not your heart be troubled," "All things work together for good," "Weeping may endure for a night," "I am the resuTTection,n "Peace, be still." Furthermore, rather than invite I racist this plague of infidelity because it has wrought no positive good for the world and is always a hindrance. I ask you to mention the name of the merciful and the education al institutions which infidelity founded and issupportiufc and has supported all thewav through institutions pronounced against God and tho Christian reliciou, and yet pro nounced in behalf of suffering humanity. What are the names of them? Certainly not tho United States Christian commission, or the sanitary commission, for Christian George H. Stuart was tho President of the one, and Christian Heory W. Bellows was the President of the other. Where are the asylums and merciful in stitutions founded by infidelity and sup ported by infidelity, pronounced against God and the Bible, and yet doing work for the alleviation of suffering? y Infidelity is so very loud in its braggadocio it must have some to mention. Certainly, if yon come to ??ak of educational institutions it is not ale, it is not Harvard, it is not Princeton, it is not Middletown, it is not Cambridge or Oxford, it is not any institution from which a diploma would not be a disgrace. Do you point to the German universities as excep tions? I have to toll you that all the German universities to-day are under positive Christian influences, except the University of Hcidelburg. where the ruffianly students cut and maul and mangle and murder each other as a matter ot pride instead of infamy. Do you mention Girard College, Philadelphia, as an exception, that colletre established by the will of Mr. Giiard which forbaie re ligious isstructica and tha entrance of clergymen wlthfn its gates. My repTy I that I Uved for seven years near that college and 1 knew many of its professors to bo Christian instructors, and no better Christian influences are to be found in any college than in Girard CoUege. . There stands Christianity. There stands Infidelity. Compare what they .have done. Compare their resources. There is Chris- ' tianity, a prayer on her lip; a benediction on her brow;botb hands full of help for H who want help; the mother of thousands of col leges; the mother of thousands of asylums for the oppressed, the blind, tho sict, the lame, the imbecile; the mother of minions for the bringing back of the outcast; tbe -mother of thousands of reformatory institu tions for the saving ot the lost; the mother, of innumerable Sabbath-schools bringing; millions of children under a drill to prepare them for respectability and usefultWs, to say nothing of the great future.. Tkat fa' Christianity. , r - - - Here is infidelity: no prayer on her Hps. no benediction on her brow. both hands clenched' . ' what for? To fight Christianity. That is tbe entire business. Tbe complete mission' ot infidelity to fight Christianity. Whore are her schools, her colleges, her ailums of mercy? Let me throw you down a whole ream of foolscap paper that you may fill all of it with the names of her beneficent in stitutions, the colleges and the asylums, the: institutions of mercy and learning, founded by infidelity and supported alone by infidel-; ity, pronounced against God and tha Chris tian religion, and yet in favor of making the world better. "Oh," you say, a ream oi paper is too much for the names of those in stitutions " Well, then, I throw you a quire of paper. FiU it aU up now. I will wait until vou aret all the . names down. "Oh," you say, "that ia too much." WelL' then, I , will just hand you a sheet of letter ,: paper. Just fill up the four sides while we are talk ing of this matter with the names of the merciful institutions p.d the educatloual in stitutions founded by infidelity and supported . all along by infidelity, pronounced against God and the Christian religion, yet in favor . of humanity. . ' ' . '.; "Oh," you say. "that is too much room. We don't want a whole sheet of paper tc write down the names." Perhaps 2 had bet ter tear out one leaf from my memorandum book and ask you fill both sides of it with tbe names of such institutions, l ,'Oh," you say,' "that would be too much room. I wouldn't? want so much room as that." 1 Well, then, sunpose you count them on your ten fingers. "Oh," you say, J,not quits so much as that." Well, then, count them on the fingers of one hand. "Oh," yon say, ,4we don't want quite no much room as that." 1 Suppose, then, you halt and count on one finger the name of any Institution founded by infidelity, supported entirely by infidelity, pronounced against God and the Christian 1 reUgion, yet toil- ing to make the world better.'. Not, one t Not one! ' Is mfldeUtv so poor, so starveling, so !. n r.. io.KU IllCOIj, DU f VCV VUU, JVW uusuquiu pauper of the universe ! Crawl into some ratholeof everlasting nothineness. Infidelity, standing to-day amid the suffering, groaning, dying nation,; and yet doing absolutely nothing save trying to impede those who are toiling until they fall exhausted into their graves in trying to make the world better. Gather hp all the work, all the merciful work, that infidelity has ever done, add it all together, and there is not so much nobil- Ity m it as m tne smallest Deaa 01 ma siscer of charity who last night went no the dark: alley of the town, put a jar of jelly for an invalid appetite on a broken stand, and then knelt on the bare floor praying the mercy of Christ upon the dying soul. Infidelity scranesno lint for the wounded, bakes no bread for the hungry; shakes up no pUlow for the sick, rouse no comfort for the bereft, gilds nc grave for the dead. While Christ, bur Christ, our wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the Christ of the old fashioned Bible blessed be txis glorious name rorever 1 our Christ stands this hour pointing to the hospital, or to the asylum, saying; "I was sick and ye gave me a couch, I was lame and ( ye gave me a crutch, I was blind and ye physicianed my eyesight' I was orphaned and ye mothered my soul, I was lost oa the mountains and ye brought me home; Inas- much as ye did it to one of the least of these, ye did it to me." But I thank God 'that this" plague of infi delity will be stayed. Many of those who hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their hearts will cease to be scoffers and will be come disciples, and the day will arrive when all nations will accept the Scriptures. The , book is going to keep right on until the fires v of the last day are kindled. Some of them. , will begin cn one side and some on the other side of the old book. They will not find a Dundie 01 loose manuscripts easily consumed like tinder thrown into the fire. When the ' fires of the last day are kindled,- some will burn on this side, from Genesis toward Revelation, and others will burn on this side, from Revelation toward Genesis, and in all their way they will not find a single chapter or a single verse out of place. That will be the first time we can afford to do without the Bible, What will be the use of the book of .Gen esis, descriptive of how this world was made, when the world Is destroyed? . What will be the use of the prophecies when they are all fulfilled? What will be the use of the j evangelistic or Pauline description ot Jesus Christ when we see Him face to face? What will be the use of His photograph when we have met Him in glory ? What wiU bathe use of the book ot Revelation, standing as you will with your loot on the glassy sea, and your band on the ringing harp, and your AUlCUQCUi UUeptcmi nitu DbUiuou vvViiuiitvU ' amid the amethystine and twelve gated glories of heaven? The emerald dashing its green against the beryl, and the beryl dash- ing its blue against tha sapphire, and the sapphire throwing its Ught on the jacinth, and the jacinth dashing its fire a?ainst the chrysoprasus, and you and I standing in tha glories of ten thousand sunsets. UNDER AN AVALANCHE. A Mother and Her Daughter are Crmhed to Death. : - ' 1 At St. Anlhony,N. P., an avalanche of snow swrij t djwu from a high cliff and buried un der its enormous weight the house of Levy Andrews. Nine persons were in tbe house at the trmefive in , the loft and four in the kitchen. Mrs. Andrews was going out into the porch at the time, and six days afterward her lifeless body was found under fourteen feet of snow. Her head was crushed and her neck and arras broken. The eldest daughter was tound dead, lying across a stove, and the stove was smashed to atoms. One of the sons was rescued alive, but died five days after ward from his injuries. George Reed, who was in the loft at the time of the accident, was so badly injured that he is still unable to lift his arms, but he is getting better. One of the ' girls rescued bad her leg broken. TilE Austral in 11 Federation Convention has approve! ot the title 01 Common wtntth of Australia for the ledefited roionieg, and Inmto provision in the constitution fur the appuimmeut by the Quwa ti , a governor. Kemtrai. - ' ' tf '- ' ; ' The Cuuara steaiiisnip Com pans', which ........ it. va-u.U Ketweeti N Yupk anil T irpf- i pool, has made a contract with a Clyde ship- buiMiuq firm for ttie cfiiistruciimi of to frteaiu-hii,' i:ii of 14,t!t'. tounaev, whisn uall crow the Atlantic oct an in Eve Jay ,

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