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.
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, " . " 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,
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piact-
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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
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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 ,