The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-29
sunyan Has Another Dream.

Editor of The Chieftain:
1t was with much sorrow and regret
that | noted the fact in recent poeti-
cal effusions in your valuable paper,
that Elder Nathan, Paul Norton, Sy
Nonymous, (being familiar with the
powers of darkness), found no rest
ing place for me in hell and while thus
musing, thought seraph came to
me and said: Il am come to take El
Nathan and you TO the Celestial City,
so follow after me-" at once com
piled with the request, as I enjoy
Nathans society very much, his Ian
guage is so elevating and uplifting that
! counted it a blessed privilege to be
his companion We soon found FL
Nathan busily engaged in looking over
some blue prints showing Sand Hills
which were laid off in little squares;
but the Seraph commanded him to
quit his work and join us. Nathan did
as directed, and the Angel taking us
and stepping into his aerial chariot
touched the button and we quickly APP
peared at the outskirts Of the New
Jerusalem In very short time we
reached the narrow gate over which
was inscribed in letters of gold:
."ORTHODOX HEAVEN" The Seraph
quickly pulled the bell and Saint Peter
opened the wicket and, recognizing us
said: Here is return check for
Observer Onion" as he will probably
want to get out Of the city in an hour
or two, but | will look up the account
of Nathan on the books and see how
he stands when he has been shown
over the place. Nathan, being of an in
quiring mind commenced to ask ques-
tions of the characters he met.
where's Judas Iscariot??" he asked
"Oh, said st, Peter he has been in
hell 1000 years You see he sold his
Savior for thirty pieces Or"
Yes, yes; but he had the decency
to go kill himself, while the other Dis
ciple who went back on his Master be
cause he feared the rabble, is now
guarding the gate of Heaven nothwith-
lstanding the fact that he was born
pointing out the shortest way to Hell
to a SocialisS-Atheist, and evidently
did not hear
Just then man of kingly mien
carrying a harp, came forward and
grasped Nathan's hand. Permit me to
introduce King David" said the
seraph. "Davy this is the man who
has been putting up such powerful
(?) defense of your life and public
character in the columns of the Chief
tain" do they still read my poetry
below?" asked the Shepherd King
eagerly, and what do the modern
critics say of it?" Well" said Nathan,
being a poet myself, | feel that | can
assure you on the strictly Q. T. that
some of your stuff doesn't equal mine,
as for instance, that poem of yours
which bears the number Of our Ritual
109, in which you pray for God to de-
spoil your enemies and your enemies
children and all their property IT
seems to me, said Nathan, that you
are a little too vigorous in that Gem
of Verse, and you go a little beyond
what | consider the proper limits pre-
scribed for a poet in defense Of super
stition. have no hesitancy in calling
the enemy himself, a liar or thief or a
son of the Devil, or any other oppro
brious epithet, but / draw the line al
sending the curse down the line to his
posterity." You may be right, said
Saul's successor, but here is Mrs
David Number 964. let me present
you" but / checked him. | didn't
care for my friend to make an female
acquaintances in a strange town.
Lets see" said Nathan, aren't you
the fellow that despoiled Uriah's wife
and had her husband murderer
"Yes," answered King Dave, Il did dc
that but repented, wrote the 51st
Psalm, and poured out my soul in that
document, so that the Lord wiped the
charge off thu slate-entering Nolle
Prose-. I'd rather you wouldn't men
ton that little incident any more as
am touchy on that point"
IF man is only pious" he continued
and strictly orthodox, all things are
forgiven him. All. here is my distin'
guished ancestor, Father Abraham. Al
low me to present you."
Come nestle in this bosom with
Lazarus, said the patriarch; but Nath-
an being in fear that Lazarus was not
entirely healed lodged the embrace
Are you the party that gave your wife
to the Oriental King, saying "She is
my sister?' Did you send Hagar out
into the desert with your son? Arc
! you the person that preferred the life
of libertine to the death of gentle