The copper era., 1910-05-13
JUST A CRATER,
..OnIy That and Nothing MOre."

In the Gold Fill News, an excellent little paper from Gold Hill, Oregon, Rex H. Lampman, editor, which comes to our desk, is contained red hot editorial against certain re- ligious pretender by the name of Oliver. For entertaining reading, the article is good, but the expose of such : a monster is what holds our attention throughout, as we'll as the truth con tained. The article is headed, "Dr. " Oliver, Sky-Pilot, and reads as fol lows:
 What a travesty on all true re- ligion, what vicious mockery ot the gentle gospel of the Man of Galiiee, what an exhibition of added ego ruu amuck, is afforded by the per formances of one "Dr." French E. Oliver, with whose presence and activities Medford is at present af- hicted
 Even on the testimony of those most tolerant of the brand of blat- ant balderdash served piping hot by this itinerant sky-pilot' Oliver Is man of vulgar and violent speech, wholesale purveyor of the foulest scandal-the truth or falsity of which appears to be to him absolutely inn material, so long as it is sufficiently sensational-a fellow wholly lacking in the least of the graces that should belong to one who has consecrated his life to the service of the Master, and withal a dizzy paradox on the faith he so sedulously professes, in that he gives every evidence of be- ing strictly tout for the coin"
 The nomadic evangelist of the "Billy" Sunday, "Capt." TayloZ "Dr." Oliver type is a peculiar ex- crescence on the Christian religion, but is not without it's prototypes in the other religions of the earth. Mohammedanism has its whirling dervish and it's Mad Mullah, the heathenism of the American Indian has it's medicine man, and African voodooism has its snake doctor. "Dr." Oliver in his ''work" is close kin and comrade to all these. They, like him, are exhorters, and their ap- peal, like his, is to the passion and credulity of the mob rather than to the reason and intelligence of the individual.
 'Dr." Oliver is professedly acting as Christ's vicar on earth. He is a of Q here to show poor sinners the way to our Heavenly home. Think of Christ's coming into Jerusalem heralded by a half page ad in the local dailies, his photo posters plastered on every wal and in every window, and announcing that he was going to give the olo town a spiritual shake-up and incl dentally drag a few skeletons out o1 the high priests and pharisees' pri vate closets, to an accompaniment provided by the very highest clas musical talent that ever came over Jordan. Oliver entered Medford, a; he had entered Eugene and Ashland with a blare of advertising trumpets His towering six-feet four, his broa' shoulders, his splendidly muscle' body, his classic face. firm jaws, hi well shaped head, his clarion voice his soul-searching eagle eye, his al round handsome physique-thus run his advertising matter, reading vast ly more like a stallion circular tha like an announcement of the adven
 r.. f,la of Inc and lowly Nazarene. En passani what difference does it make whethe Jesus was six feet four or five fee three? Is the ability of priest o prophet to save souls in anywise de termined by his physical measure ments and characteristics? But d not think that "Dr." Divers ments attachments are forgotten by hi press agent. Here is a modest est mate of the doctors intellectu' worth, taken verbatim from pal advertisement published in the MeC ford Mail-Tribune of April the 26tt
 He opens to his hearers the liter' ture, history, science, biograph philosophy, theology, poetry and of all lands with the GdSe Ol u great master that he is. As d Ie turer Dr. Oliver has few peers ar no superiors on the American pla' form today. takes rank easl with any and all of the great pulp and platform orators of the countr He is a complete master of the En fish language, possessing vocab lary that is Shakespearean in scop
 Shakespeare? Sure thing! He's
 imminent danger of being show from the throne of English lette by this mental marvel who has, read further, "converted" thousan
 in Kansas-poor, bleeding, afiicte thrice unfortunate Kansas. A ID;
 who has the ''literature, histol
 science, biography, philosophy, th
 ology, poetry and art of all lands
 on instant tap. as has "Dr." Oliv'
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