Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-11
Communicated.

| EDS. 1NOEA. as CDere mas Deen SUI
ficient time for reflection so that your
readers can judge from reason and
common sense, will call attention to a
few points in the long printed sermon
of Elder Nation to the old soldiers
which has gone out to the world that
| should be noticed for he gives himself
some fatal cuts. The elder says that
Christ preached politics as well as re-
ligion." That is true, but he failed to
preach the politics or religion ofChrist.
There IS none of it in his sermon. Let
US see, instead of his pitching into the
money changers like Christ, he says by
implication that we must not speak
against bankers. After jungling up
u great deal of scripture with a wrong
application, quotes Peter ii, $40 as
follows:
"The Lord knoweth how to deliver the God
ly out or temptations and to resist the unjust
unto the day of judgment to be punished
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in
the lust OF uncleanness, and despise govern
ment. assumptions are they, self willed
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities."
See how he perverts Holy writ to pro-
tect the class that Christ styles thieves,
Matt. xxi, ID, Mark XII, II. We deny
his right to perYert the scriptures by
adding bankers" in the way he
has, fornow it looks aS If ''he has told
us what he was told to tell us" for the
sake of the drippings from that corrupt
fountain. The great burden of his SER
mon is not the issue in neither politics
or religion, for if christians are not to be
judged '.in drink or of the Sab
bath days, see Col. ii, Is, he has no
right to force it upon them, that is
without the church but he has right
to Judge them that are within" the
church and keep them sober. But
them that are without God judgeth."
See Cor. v, 1918. So those that are
without the church he has no BUSH
ness to NEEDLE with, but the Elder
'strains at az little drinking land
swallows the whole of the banking
system that does business in violation
of both human and divine laws, and he
knows 1t. But he seems to want us to |
regard the money power as the great
Diana that can't be spoken against"
Whether he likes it or not the money
power will remain as one of the great
issues both political and religious until
IL is kicked into perdltiOn and then the
Elders god will be gone forever. But
there is ''theSe necessary things that
ye obtain from fOrnlcation."
See Acts XIV, 1929. The Elder con-
dennis libertinism III Breckenridge, but
have no doubt but he will endorse it in
Long for according to newspaper re-
ports he is no better. It is self evident
from his sermon that it was for the
purpose of quieting the spirit Of dis
content among the slaves and to en-
courage them to submit to all the laws,
when he should have qualified his state.
ment by saying all laws not in conflict
with Gods laws that 1--WE ought to
obey God rather than men" Acts %.
(All true christians are hier law men)
He surely knows that the most of our
laws are in conflict with Gods laws,
and that the prediction of the Prophet
is now fulfilled. See lisa. xiv 5. The
Elder says that Christ taught that
His kingdom should come here on this
earth" That is true. but he denies ii
in another place by encouraging the
old soldiers to prepare ''for heavens
dress parade" when Jesus says we can
not 90. See John i'll, IS; xiii SO. This
kind of religion and political buncomb
is for the purpose of binding the eyes
of the simple so as to better control
them to vote away the balance of our
homes, and to vote Jokes on to our
childrens necks for all time to come.
The condition is already such that it is
implorable to enjoy the purest life, and
if we follow the Elders teachings will
cheat US out of the life to come. Why
is it that there are so few preachers on
the Lords side2 This question is ask
ed by men of various ways of thinking.
l will not attempt to answer, though
there must be something wrong, for
there are about one hundred thousand
orthodox priests and preachers IN this
country, and the number that preach
like Christ you can count on your fing-
ers. In conclusion implore 1.-THE Elder
and all that wish to be on the Lords
side to come on to the side of the OPP
pressed poor and needy where Jesus
always was and when He comes again
He will ''save the children of the needy
and shall break in pieces the Cypress
or n B. BLANTON