The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-23
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gantic ocean liner. Titanic on purpose
to punish Astor. Bishop Partridge Of
Kansas City. says in his Sunday morn
ing address in concluding a eulogy for
the brave men and women who lost
their lives: The magnificent reward
comes afterwards. They shall shine
as the stars OF the heavens, and they
shall judge the nations according to
the promise of the word" The men
and women who nobly sacrificed their
lives that others might live. are at the
bottom of the sea so far as the ma
terial body is concerned; but their
souls have gone higher and their ex.
ample will live among men Away
Their sacrifice shall be the stand
ard by which nations will be judged for
evermore.
No doubt my learned antagonists
can draw from the quotations furnish
ed something that will show to their
co-religionists the Power of the AL
mighty. In concluding my paper
want to pay my respects to the peculiar
attitude of my honorable opponents in
insinuating that because do not be-
lieve their doctrine. | should be social
! ly ostracised should not be allowed
to live in a community where the true
believers are. those who serve the
Devil 6 days out of the week, and
hypocritically swallow a little bread
and wine on Sunday for the Glory of
the Lord. was really surprised to
find this Religious Intolerance Spirit
| so strong in my verbal antagonists,
| this too in country where we have
a Constitution without God in it, and
where we brag about universal toler-
alton.
xI will say to my friends (?) who have
been muttering as to paper allowing
my articles to be published and ad-
vising people to ostracise me that This
is the same Spirit that burned Bruno
at the stake, the same Spirit that sup
Ipressed Calico, that burned Servetus,
that banished Luther that bounded
ISavoranola to his death, the same
spirit that banished Roger Williams
land Anne Hutchinson from the Massa-
Ichusetts Bay Colony to the Wilderness
in mid-winter. 1t is this spirit or re-
Iligious bigotry and intolerance that
murdered the Quakers. the Puritans,
1.-THE Hugenots, the Moors. the Jewes,
land in fact caused the hundreds OF
thousands of prosecutions since the
ldays of Christ, the spirit which does
mot recognize the honest doubter, but
calls all new theories heresies. Each
one of the prominent sects in this City
were at one time heretics. When they
Iget strong and able to fight they are
Iorthodox and the new theory is the
heretical one Roger Williams was
the hereto Of the Puritan Massachu
| setts Bay Colony, and as result o
his Punishment by Governor Endieott
1--WE have the present Missionary Bap
Itist Church.
John and Charles Wesley were
: lheretics fro mthe standpoint of th'
Church of England; but where wouit
1.-The Methodist Church be today II /
hadn't been for these two dissenters
IReligions and religious systems arr
constantly changed, and Pagan Bol
, Ihas well said.
"Why should we sacrifice rea
world that we have for one we know
, mot of? Why should we enslave our
selves? Why should we forge fetterl
lfor our own hands? Why should w
Ibe the slaves of phantoms -phantomi
that we create ourselves? The dark
Iness of barbarism was the womb 0
THESE shadows. In the light of science
fthey cannot cloud the sky forever
lThey have reddeiied the hands of MAJ
with Innocent blood They made thu
! cradle curse, and the grave a place
| of torment. Man Is greater than thes'
phantoms. Humanity is grander thai
! all the crecds, than all the books. Hu
! manity is the great sea, and thes'
+ creeds are but the waves OF day. Hu
, manity is the sky. and these religions
land dogmas and theories are but thu
! mists and clouds, changing continually
Idestined finally to melt away. Let th'
ghosts 60 We will worship them NJ
more. Let them cover their eye'esi
, sockets with their feshless hands am
fade forever from the imagination Q
men, OBSERVER.
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