Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-04-22
OF GATH.
VOL. XVIII.

Go" complains of i'll treatment
at the hands of those he has assaied
in the past. Says he has been called
hard names. Perhaps he deserves
all he gets. He is also expert at the
use of epithets and when one pays
! him back III his own coin he feels
/ discounted. He is the great modern
theological regulator. He presumes
to put his nose into everything that
comes III contact with his religious
proboscis and if now and then he
gets it pealed off he has no one to
blame but himself. Many of his as
sertlons and statements are so utterly
at war with reason, common sense
and truth that one instinctively ap-
plies the epithet which implies the
absence of sense without thinking OF
the matter. 1t is simply an outburst
of Indignation at the sulliness of the
creature that is so lost to reason as
to give utterance to the staten ment
that calls forth the indignation.
Paul acted that way with Elymas,
the other Sorcerer, aud Paul was an
honorable man. go" says ''the
baptism of Pentecost did not come
under the great commission at all.
Let US see whether Go speaks the
truth or not. Turn to Luke, 24ti
chapter and 46th verse, ''And said
unto them thus it is written and thu
it behooved Christ to suffer, and tC
rise from the dead the third day
And that repentance and remission OF
sins should be preached in his name
among all nations beginning at Jeru
salem. And ye are witnesses Of
these things, and behold | send the
promise of my Father upon you
but tarrv We in the city of Jerusalem
until ye be endowed with power from
on High"
The promise of the Father was th'
Holy Spirit. The place was Jerusa
lem. The reader can see that ther'
is an untruth somewhere. It stand
between Luke record and ''Goliah's s
statement, and my mind is made VI
l as to where it belongs, and the reade
can take his choice. L go with Luke
1t is no use talking about hard words
| Jesus is my brother, and when
! hear a man contradict him and hi
inspired messengers and attempt t
I falsify the record they have made
want to utter to him that does it n
uncertain sound. The next point h
makes is that man and wife wlthou
children have no family. You sc
the cunning craftiness of this slil
perry eel of unconditional election
This one of the chosen elect! II
does not state that man and h
wife do not constitute family, bt
he only says the two have no family
Such cunning and craftiness migl
be sought for in third rate war
politician who expected, with chea
cigars and mean whisky, 20 cheat
negro out of his vote, but L al
, ashamed of finding such n spirit
one of Gods elect. | am Statistic
God decreed no such thing as tina
= and that Go is living monumel
/, of the falsity of the statement in b
'e confession of faith that ''God d
- crees whatsoever comes to pass.
, Now it is O we'll settled rule of law
- this state that a man and his wi
consulate a family and are entitlt
to certain exemptions from levy al
,. sale of personal property by reason
J. the fact that they constitute famll
know of q case now in the west el
of this county where it has bet
tested and the officer refused to icy
r. an execution because the old ms
claimed his exemptions as the he;
of the family, which was compos'
of him and his wife only. 70
statements are certainly made in Z
absence of all information on {
subject or else you have but Eiti
- regard for your reputation as mi
of intelligence and veracity. | (
not wonder that some of those IN
q you have debated with, in their d
| gust at such statements as you mai
apply to you The epithet of foo
..ass in lions skln," lad neauseam
20. 1t has sometimes taxed my Jobos
to keep from calling you plain Engli
49, names
Your statements of scripture a
as wide of the mark as your kno'
edge of law. The smattering =
have of Greek will prove your ruin
III. YOU don't add more to it very so
or put it clean away from you. 1t
y an edge tool and before you s
u, aware of it you will be so deep
widely and longly gashed that
No doctor can sew you up, and then y
will 'sbe done for."