Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-06
A Mystery Sslved-A Challenge.

HAZELToN, Kan. Feb. l, 1895.
desire to make known to the world
for the benefit of suffering humanity
that has been deceived and robbed so
long, that we have made the great dis
coyerJ that the socalled orthodox
churches are not christians but pagans,
that they are the great ''anti Christ, y
the spiritual or alegolical seed of the
serpent. We have known for a long
time that they taught a doctrine that
nullified the scriptures and madeC Christ
out liar, but did not know that ortho-
doxy was paganism until after we had
searched to see what the pagans taught
and were greatly surprised to find that
Paganlsm and orthodoxy were the
same in all essential points. This
discovery unravels another mystery
which has puzzled retormers for years.
Why. the orthodox clergy. with but few
exceptions, are on the side of the class
that Christ kicked out Of the temple,
the reason is that they are not christ
lanS. Ii they were christians as they
pretend then state of happiness would
pervade all classes as described in Acts
iv, 1926, the present awful condition of
the country bias BEEN reached under or
thodox preaching until they have
changed the socalled christian world
into literal hell and today the groans
and cries of millions of starving and
freezing men, women and children are
ascending the throne of the most High
from every quarter Of the globe, and
their cries will soon be heard in the
most awful judgment storm that the
world has ever seen. We are certain
of tins. See Cor. XIV, 81 81; Luke xxi,
% 70; Rev. xvi, Is IS. Am SD certain
that we are right that We want to dis
cuss these subjects ate riding 10 tie
rules of debate with any of their preach
ers, no matter how big, we are loaded
for bear. So this is intended for a
challenge. and in arranging the subject
we will charge that sOcalled orthodoxy
is pavanlsm, that it is the great "anti-
Christ" the spiritual and alegOrical
seed of the serpent.
However we will say to the public
generally that we are not so vain as to
believe that any of these soul mer-
chants will accept our challenges; in
fact We know they will not, they would
rather treat IL with silent contempt for
they are afraid of discussion, it might
open the eyes of the people aud then
their occupation would be gone. But
they will get their eyes open; this is
another thing that we are certain of
for the time Will come when mo man
buyeth their merchandise any more"
(Rev. xiii IL. Another reason is that
it keeps them busy these hard times to
divert the minds of the people from
their distress to gaze toward heaven
while the money power gets away with
the baggage and besides that, they
have to devote considerable time to
drilling the Willing Workers in getting
up various church shows to swindle the
poor out of the last copper, their blind
guides is the spiritual seed of the SER
pent and they have beguiled the Will
ing Workers as the old serpent did Eve
and have them as helpless as bird
fluttering in the charms of a literal SER
pent. Therefore call upon all indie
pendent thinking people to get after
these sky pilots with sharp sticks and
If they can't make them fish or cut
bait they can break the charm and free
the women from these serpents. Then
these ladies and their husbands will
invite us to tell them all about the
exceeding great and precious promis
es" contained III the Gospel of the
Kingdom that is soon to come When
Christ will sit on David's throne on
Mount Zion in Jerusalem in thu Holy
Land on this literal earth and will
point out the way to unite with the
seed of the woman (which keep the
comma ndment of God and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ" ''Happy
is the man that fhdeth wisdom and
the man that getteth understanding"
n. b. BLANToN.