Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-02
Vaccination.

Weep, O children of the Most High!
fol- the christian nations of the Earth
are taking up the wicked practice of
tattooing their bodies. 1t is a shame
on our civilization. We were made in
the image and likeness of God, He
who has made everything beautiful.
And now to depart from our first love
and to give faith to the doctrines and
devices of men is Sacrilege: and such
is vaccination. O. children of our
Lord Jesus Christ! Take not this
awful sin upon you. Keep thyself
pure and undeflled, trust in Jesus, and
no good thing will be withheld from
them that trust i'm Him.
Hear what Paul says in his first
epistle to the Corinthians: "know
We not that We are the temple of God.
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in
you? If any man detilc the temple. of
God, him Shall God destroy: for the
temple of God is holy. which temple
We are" And Furthermore he says.
'know ye not that your body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in
you, which We have of God, and We are
not your OWN" The Lord wants His
people to be pure and spotless i'm both
soul and body, that we may approach
to that perfection which God loves
Children. do not mar your bodies.
They are the beautiful handiwork of
God, and the temple of His Spirit.
Remember that God rules the universe.
that He loves His children. and will
not allow them to suffer more than
they are able to bear. BE strong in
the faith, and you have no need to be
afraid.
There is much to say against the
tattooing of our bodies. Better die
the death than to submit, and if God,
through the Smallpox, wants to mark
you, that is His business not yours.
For man it is an unholy deed, and if
all the Doctors could have their way,
and put Divinity in the background,
we would not have a perfect man or
woman on the face of the Earth, but
a billion and a half of people with the
Doctors scar upon them-a vast num-
Der of mutilated bodies. Sorry indeed
would be to go into the congregation
of the righteous and know that every
one was mutilated by the sinful hand
OF man. 0! the anti-Divinity of such
Ia practice. Shame en- it!
Listen to the law of Moses, from
the great Book OF Leviticus: '.And if
a man cause a blcmish in his neighbor:
us he hath done, so shall it be done to
him." Therefor, | say, he that will
mar the body OF man. let him have it
returned every time upon his body.
God wants people without spot or
Flemish. and in such he delights, and
he has given lis every agent by which
we can keep us pure. Sulphur. asifeti-
ola, onions, leaks, garlic and spices,
VIII ward away contagion: use them
externally and internally, keep myself
pure and unSpotted from the world,
and the God of Heaven will be with
you.
Again from the great Book of Levitt
icus: mo man that hath blemish
of the seed of Aaron the priest shall
come nigh TO offer the offerings or the
Lord made by fire: he hath u blemish:
he Shall not come nigh to offer the
bread of his God" And then again in
the 9TH verse of the 21st chapter we
read: s'They shall not make badness
upon their head neither shall they
shave off the corner of their beard, or
make any cuttings in the fiesh."
This medical tattooing, | can state
on good authority, has caused both
death and amputations. Young man!
If you are a Christian, do not marry a
CONAN who has been tattooed, Young
lady. IF you are d Christian, shun the
society of the tattooed man. And let
all Gods people pray that tattooing
may soon be thing of the past. The
present tendency is to overcome one
evil by paving the way for another
! tDinvite disease and death into our
organisms by depositing more Virus
into our blood when by nature we
have altogether too much of it. And
it is a great question to the world
today that tattooing is of any good
Whatevet: but God says not to do it,
and His word is sifficienr for me. Biz
there is lots of money in it, and fot
the money there seems to be a tenden-.
cy 70 transform sword into a world
of biemishes: AS for The Smallpox,
with the strict quarantines of our day.
the great majority of the people
would never know what it is to have
| it, and why this useless expenditure OF
money? O. that the children of our
clay would trust more in the Great
Physician, and come to Him with all
their troubles, and He will heal them,
for He has all power both in heaven
and earth Let us live right. Let all
our words, tflohshts ana actions be
right, and we can purify the Whole
earth. We can drive the scourge from
our midst and heaven will smile upon
us. This is Gods truth, and truth can
wrong nobody. 1T; /.
ARTHUR BELTS.