The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-02-23

the writer; does it not seem as If it
was somebody else writing about
Moses. l have not space in a news
paper article to show much evidence,
why l do not believe that Moses wrote
the books ascribed to him. And con-
vince the average mind that / am as
sincere and honest in my belief as II
claimed to believe that a serpent held
Balaam's ass had the powers of articu-
lation and asked some very pointed
questions of his driver So l will only
take a few of the most convincing pas
sages that have noticed look up the
18th chapter of Numbers: And Miriam
and Aaron spake against Moses be
cause of the Ethiopian woman whom
he had married for he had married
an Ethiopian woman" ! suppose that
means that he married a negro wo-
man "2nd verse And they, meaning
Miriam and Aaron, said hath the Lord
indted spoken only by Moses, hath he
not spoken also by us and the Lord.
Now the man Moses was very meek
above all the men which were upon
the face of the earth" Now in the
name of common sense does that read
like as If Moses was the writer and
this same style is carried on till we
come to Deuteronomy, chapter "a;
verse 5: so Moses, the servant of
the Lord died there in the land of
Moab, according to the word of the
Lord. And he buried him in valley
in the land of Moab over against Beth
peor, but no man knoweth of his
sepulchre unto this day" Did Moses
write these verses?
Capt. White proves that David wrote
the psalms by quoting from the book
Iof 2 Samuel. Letus look in the first
book of Samuel and see if We can
prove also that w tchcraft existed, look
up 1st Smauel, chapter 2S. / can't
quote the whole thing, but here is the
heading: "Achish puteth confidence in
David. Saul having destroyed the
witches, and now in his fear forsaken
Of God seeketh to witch, the witch
encouraged by Saul raiseth up Samuel
from the grave"
No wonder John Wesley said to drop
witchcraft was to deny the inspired
scripture. Here is miracle unsur-
passed by anything recorded, perform
ed by the witch of Endor What can
you or what can you not prove by the
writer of the books of Samuel. The
Captain wants to prove by Luke that
Luke wrote one of the books called
the gospel. If it is the truth, if it is
the word of the Almighty that is what
to prove. If these four gospels try to
do anything it is to prove that the
Messiah longed for by the Jews arrived
in the person called Jesus of Nazerath.
Also to prove that he was devine, that
lie Mdo OOds anu " ollON tto NlNbAA -
as can, that they did not establish his
divinity, | will begin with Matthew
and carry Lukes account along side
by side from David to Christ according
to Matthew was twenty-eight genera
tions. According to Luke it was forty
three generations, and if this was a
case in our court this proves they
wrote about different Jesus.
Do you know that nothing so blinds
a man to justice as that abnormal de-
sire for political pie that hemanifests
in that article And as | said before
l am with the intention now, as before
if the editor gives me space of pass
ling remarks on all our county officers,
yes and political pie hunters also if
they come. If the pie Willie that
wrote that article has not got enough
he can come again, he can get three
meals day of this kind of pie and
cost him no more than it costs any of
our county officers that think have
lmade good and that is nothing
j. RATCLIFF,
Estella.