The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-12-20


The majority Of farmers are through gathering
corn now they will prepare for the holidays.
There seems TO be great disappointment from the
low price of hogs still there il another of sat
isfaction-taxes are lower than last year.
Thomas Scott Seelry, Job Mcdaniel, and Lands.
have formed a copartnership in the harley trade.
They Thought il would he too heavy risk on one
person alone to pay the freight n car load.
Our school is to commence after the holidays. The
house is completed.
One week of good weather at last, and more work
performed than in a month before.
1t is strange that man will not pay e., and get
watch out of the express Office when il is worth SD
do not intend want to use your columns to dis
any subject. but feel that ought to say some
thing to Doniphan, of Norway. in reply to his art
Gle Infdelity. will say, the term, applied by
Christians means all who do not subscribe to the an-
thenticty of the Scriptures He has got congonl-
Grafton Of all dissenting factions outside of the Bible
held up in view, in his reply. The first argument
shall offer is that all freethinkers dscredit his book
of reference; therefore he cannot bring il up as an
argument against the character Of the large MAORI
y of the people of the globe. Deists termed Init
dels by the Christians: still they believe in God in
fact, it would he hard To find person that did not
in other, although it might not be the
God of Isaac. Jacob. Abraham. which means the
Col of the Jews. We havenot word to say against
Christians. To lie Christian, is to be Christlike or
like Christ. whose character is worthy Of imitation
But will say, that if you want To find lions share
of the hypocrisy of this world 90 among those that
make loud noise about their religion; WHILE if you
want to find men of back bone and moral stamina,
you must look among the frce-thnkers Who is it
that fortunes people for opinions sake, See the
.nf .x-is
lenee of which would put the atrocities of Captain
Jack in the shade Our law does not prescribe for
You to believe anything in reference to religion to
the authenticity of your book of reference. Who WAS
it that anxious TO have a clause in our Const
tuition wherein God should be accepted by the PEG
pie of the United States! II not Christians No,
it was bigots, who went under that disguise. What
God did, they want accepted. There are Gods many,
and very few there that know anything of any of
them, only from tradition hearsay, which is very
uncertain kind of law, especially to in proscrb
ing Others whose neredulity is such that they will
not be led by hypocritica craft but insist being
governed by human reason, which is the highest gift
of God, and an ingredient which does not form n
very prominent portion of any religion, either Chris
tian or Pagan,
Ii is not necessary for me cite yon to the atroc-
tiles that have been committed under the garb of
Christian religion. to say nothing of the old Jewish
religion, which perpetual contest for supreme
ey. Whenever they wished to destroy u weak tribe,
they pretended to be guided by the God of their
the one You quote-and he would lend them help
ing hand. See the conquest for the land Of Canaan
how they eIterminated whole tribes; only they
kept the fair virgins for their virnous purposes,
which to be hereditary propensity of the
main leaders who extoland magnify the God of jews