The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-14
81 Mailman sees the LIaht.

Editor of The Chieftain:
am pleased to note that Ell MA
THAN, alias Rev. Rastus Bonehead
alias Elder Crapsey. has in a maze oil
words finally virtually acknowledged
that the great truths taught by Oar
win are correct.
In justice to this remarkably well
educated man. this Redeemed
preacher who stoops to the ordinary
billingsgate, note that he has i'm.
proved on Darwin and thinks the the
ory OF Evolution Evolves" more
quickly than Darwin thought, and he
goes back to the famous refuge of the
Educated" CD the best educated
scientists Of this Country are coming
to this conclusion. This a safe prop
osition--"The Best Scientists but
we insist that this disciple of Super.
stition NAMES these prominent
Scientists those who have rejected
the teachings OF Darwin. ! will ven
ture the assertion, that outside per-
haps, of some little theological school,
q should say cemetery, he will be
unable to name he eminent scientists
call upon him now TO name any one
connected with any of the great State
Universities, and | will allow him to
even refer to Standard Oil Company
Jno d. Rockefeller's Baptist Uniyer-
sity Of Chicago, who deny Darwlnism.
In passing, might note that this mill
tant defender of the murder of babes
and the career of his patron saint
David, whose life was patterned after
Gods own Peart," and compared with
whom, Captain Kidd and Jesse James
become aureoled Saints, admits that
ne is very well educated and has on
his shelves the last word on ali the
subjects which these discussions have
touched This modest little admission
on the part of Brother Nathan leads
me to ask him how sacred book has
to be to justify the crime of murder.
1t also leads me to ask him If it is not
a fact that the first murder committed
was on account of religion.
Ell. NATHAN, come up to the rack
and acknowledge to your readers that
the first murder-the murder of Abel
by his brother Cain, was on account
OF religious persecution. Abel's sacri-
fee, according to the account, was
more pleasing to the Lord, as it was
the firstlings of his flocks and Gains
sacrifices of ruit We're not acceptable,
as the Lord. it seems has always pre-
ferred sacrifices of animals. The spill
ing of blood and odor of roasted meat
being very gratifying to him, and the
meat being good to keep the priests
from starvation.
The two children of our first par
ents. trying to propitiate their Deity
performing the first religious rites
in the Bible, introduced the
crimes of murder and religious perse-
cution and they have kept hand in
hand until a very recent date. A brief
period of hundred years in our eoun-
try would produce examples, and one
year would show very prominent in
stance in Spain, in the murder Of
Francis Ferrer by the Catholic church.
Ell Nathan digresses about 400 words
in his article OF yesterday in order to
insert little Bon Mot originated CD
in his fertile CD brain in which he
lnkens us to a wild ASS. and he then
apologies after he has introduced
this unanswerable argument.
If FL Nathan wants to drag all his
relatives into this discussion. it is no
affair Of mine, and whatever unction
he can take to his soul in using such
stuff as alleged argument in proving
that Moses 'evolyed creation quickly,
will be satisfactory TO me.
When Nathan takes down another
volume in that collection OF his-that
library which according to his intima-
tion surpasses the famous collection
of the Alexandrian library before it
was destroyed by Napoleon, / would
suggest to him that he carefully looks
up the Text that proves that the King
James Bible which unequiyocaNy says
on the title page was translated out
of original manuscripts from the orig
inal Greek, when the Bible writer's
knew only Hebrew, is correct He
might note the fact also, that there
is not an original manuscript of any
of the books of the Bible, save per
haps one at st, Petersburg, and that
this one Is dated 400 years after Christ,
and he might In passing give us the
names and the character Of the con-
tents of the lost hooks of the Bible.
among which scholars list THE Book
of Wars" "The Book os Jasher," "The
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