The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1891-03-06
A DIDACTIC LETTER.
FRIDAY HARBoR, March !, 1891

The thought of finally men is, lis there
God, and how did he create himself"
They will say, ~ can't believe that any
being can create himself" is the thought
of many. Now, observe by history and
by personal knowledge that mans
power is very limited and that they
can't control themselves. Now think
is it any more unreasonable to believe
that God created himself than it would
be to believe that the first man and the
first woman created themselves. Think
of this and you will see that the history
of the creation of man is true as re-
corded in the Biblical history, but some
will say, II don't believe the Bible, nol
will | believe anything that l can't see
or understand" My dear friend, don't
deceive yourself, as will prove to you
that you believe in a thing that you
have never seen or ever shall see. You
may say, | can't do it. Now, ask your
self the question, "Have you got any
brains in your head?" You will say
[ have. How do you know it? fon
never saw them, nor never VIII 50
them. You believe so on the say 81
others. Why should you doubt the say
of others that wrote the Bible and its
truths, aud that they were inspired by
God to do it? You Emay say that the
Bible tells of place called heaven, but
we never saw anybody coming from
there. Christ came from heaven TO
this earth, and lived thirty years on the
earth with men. Now, he says that
this Bible is true; that there is place
called heaven; that all who believe in
the teaching Of this Bible, and do unto
others as you would like others to do
unto you, will live forever when they
leave this earth and be happy, aud THAT
the wicked who do bad deeds to thair
fellow man on this earth will be pun
ished. All men should read this b6pk
called the Bible and live according to
the teaching of it. They would live a
happy life in this world and also be
happy in the next. Some will say, II
don't believe that Christ was more than
man." Let us examine and see if his
history looks that way. Wei find in
history that he was teaching learned
men in the temple when only twelve
years old. The neXt:ue hear OF him is
healing the lame, raising the dead to
life, and causing the blind to see. He
did all. this without pay; he reprimand-
ed the rich for expressing the poor, he
made disciples of the poor and unedu-
Gated, and he gave to them power, 50
they could preach in any language.
His teaching was to love one another
and do unto others as you would like
others to do unto you, and he did all
this teaching for 81 years without pay.
He did not goStO the rich to get money
and get into itheir favor, but he repri-
manded them for robbing the poor of
their labor; he reprimanded the priests
for their Hypocrisy and not living ac-
cording to Gods Claws. Do you think
that there is q man on the earth at this
time that could do miracles like those
Christ did? and without pay he worked,
teaching for 80 years, to raise man from
Il fallen, degraded condition to glo-
riOus elevated one of freedom. He was
crucified that we might live. When
Adam disobeyed Gods law, God said
to Adam, "You can eat Of all the fruit
thou eatest of this fruit you shall surely
die" He did eat. The penalty was
death. Now, the only way that man
could live again is, that Christ offerTa
his own life, SO man could live. And
to prove to man that his death redeem
ed man, he resurrected on the third
day, proving two things: First, that he
was the son of God; second, that all
who believed in Christ and lived ac-
cording to his teaching should never
die, but live forever; but some men will
say, Adam did not die the day he eat
the forbidden fruit, but lived many
years, and l will prove to you that
Adam did die before the day was gone.
You will find in the Bible that one day
is as a thousand years and thousand
years as one day with the Lord, SO you
will see the Lords day is a thousand
years. Now, Adam lived $50 years, SO
you will see that Adam died before the
day was gone. No man lived a thou.
sand years. To prove that there is 1
hereafter, I submit the philosophical
proposition, to-wit: the human mind ID
so constituted that it cannot desire q
thing which does not exist. Consider
this at your leisure.
CHARLES MCKAY,
Friday Harbor, Wash.