The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-07

Joseph was not the father. Why waste
time and space to give the origin Of
man whose origin is Divine? It surely
seems TO be labor lost tc pursue this
subject and quibble over a Gods birth.
A little matter OF - or IA generations
should make no difference with the
true believer and the doubters are
already @Muckrakers Of their Father.
the Devil" and are lost.
The reverend gentlemen in pennlng
his reply has been very careful (?) in
his choice OF epithets and in the intol-
Grant attitude that he has shown, he
truly proves what Col. R. G. IngersoR,
often said that the spirit Of the In
quisition was not vet dead, and that
John Calyin's Ghost was ready at any
time to be relncarnated.
How fortunate for this Republic that
we had men instead of Religious Mum
mics to make our Constitution and
that those men left God out of the
Constitution.
We want no return of the days when
Priests and the Bible were supreme,
when thousands and thousands of in
nocent children were sacrificed in the
mad pursuit of fetich
desire to say word as to Rev.
John Marcus and his labored effort
to prove that Science and Moses are
not in conflict have carefully read
some three or four articles wordy
diarrhoeas on this subject and all the
proof given was the bare statement
that Moses and science do not con-
flict, If the worthy elder would place
his head in a barrel and repeat the
statement in loud voice three or four
times, think he would thoroughly CON
vince (himself) that the assertion was
true.
1t is not necessary to make any ex-
| tended answer to this alleged argu-
ment of Marcus, save that no scientist
of the last 200 years has accepted
Moses account of the Creation. 1t is
true that one or two of them have ac-
cepted by saying that the days were
long periods of time, cons or ages,
but no one of the bunch has accepted
| it according to the Book.
Moses. according to the generally ac-
cepted belief is the author of the Book
of Genesis, and by his own account
lproves himself to be a murderer, hav-
ling killed an Egyptian and hid him in
the sand a fugitive from Justice, a
lliar, necromancer, and thief.
Did Marcus say anything about the
credibility of his witness? Should any
persons reading this article doubt this
indictment of Moses (made by his own
hand). l insist that they read the
books of Exodus and Genesis. A care
full perusal will show that all these
charges are true. All that is needed
is to get the theological fog out OF
your eyes.
Read at the same time of the famous
Promised Land Journey of the Children
of Israel to the Wilderness, where
they were 40 years travelling l75
miles, And this too with God, and
his Right Bower Moses with them all
the time-the Pillar of Fire by night
and Cloud by day, and yet it took &C
Years OF course, Commentators say
that they travelled a circuitous route
and went about 1000 miles, that would
make them travel less than three
fourths of a mile each day taking this
as the correct distance What a re
markably quick journey! Brigham
Young beat that in his trip to Great
Salt Lake, but the Lord did not appear
to Brigham openly-always seeking
out the astute Norman Elder private
ly. AS matter of history Brigham
colony prospered much better thar
that of Moses.
Captain White has almost quit the
Forum and it is with much regret thai
we lose his excellent theses on reveal
ed Religion. The Captains last broad
side was something of the nature Of
word-jugglery and the play was will
the words Finite" and Infinite" The
Captain after pondering the matter
long and well has arrived at the con
clusion that the Finite mind can moi
understand the message the Infinite
mind has given and it will be impos
sible to understand it. If this is true
there is no use of us studying the ques
tion further | might be allowed t
inquire why should an infinite beine
send message that a finite one coulC
not comprehend? II an infinite being
should send message that could be
comprehended only by an infinite
mind, then We are hopelessly lost anC
the responsibility is on the Infinite