The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-15
NATHAN TIE II.

Editor of The Chieftain / notice in
yesterdays Chieftain that direct de
scendant of the famous Prophet Ma
than, he of the expression: Thou
art the man." has entered the lists
on the side of superstition, and has un-
dertaken the impossible task of re-
conciling the two genealogies of Jesus
Christ This new recruit as you will
notice, exercised the usual Christian
spirit to the limit and instead of kind
ly trying to take the doubters into
his loving arms and there reasoning
with them as to the error of their ways,
he calls them children of the Devil, =
and other opprobrious epithets not us
ually supposed to be in the vocabulary
of a saved" hypocrite that has
been born twice.
When this Doctor of Diyinity-this
intellectual orphan-this educated
parrot-this distinguished parsonage
FL Nathan who never had an original
idea, was called by the Lord to preach
the Lord in the multiplicity of business
cares forgot to call the audience to
hear him and as result of this over
sight on the part of the Lord, this Di-
vine has full congregations-full of
empty benches, and-in the interim he
has had the time and opportunity to
carefully study up Conybeare & How
son, and other Bible commentators
and has given up their ideas as to the
difference of two or three hundred
years in Christs genealogy.
This explanation is very remarkable,
to say the least The only difficulty
with this explanation is that it is alb
solutely false. The Book certainly
should be an authority on this matter,
and it plainly states in Matthew |,
Chapter and 10th Verse that Jacob
begat Joseph the husband of Mary,
of whom was born Jesus, who is called
Christ. In Luke III Chapter 29rd
Verse, this language occurs: And
Jesus himself began to be about thirty
years of age, being Gas was supposed)
the son of Joseph, which was the son
of He'll" Nothing is said here about
one of these passages referring to his
Mother and the other to his (supposed)
Father-nothing said about the ROYAL
line, whatever that is. In each case
the account says JOSEPH.
tb;c Dr;oe4 xtrbo crIfhIu roDnafc
the fictions of other persons would ex.
anime for moment the Inconsistency
of his position, he would be more care
full of his statements in the future.
Question? Why should Matthew, a
man who according to this preachers
pretended belieI, wrote by inspiration
make a mistake, and why will it be
necessary to explain away this inspired
writer's statements at this late day by
saying that he was the aristocrat-tht
Royal parsonage of the bunch?
Why, if Mary's genealogy was to be
given was it not run back as far as
Joseph's?
This man Nathan knows, if he has
ever read any Scripture that woman
has occupied a very little place in tht
Holy Scriptures She is an instru
ment of procreation and is not treat
ed as mans equal in any instance
she is below man, and to even sugges
that she be given the dignity of
genealogy is absurd The inspired
writer's of the Bible always went t
trouble to tell about the origin of thei
male characters on their fathers side
but no attention was paid to tn
mother.
For the benefit of this little ossified
case-hardened elder with the waite
mark of his religion-his special bran,
also water on the brain, / will sug
gest that he reads the last halfof tn
18th Verse OF the last Chapter of Rev
elations, where he will find this lar
guage: "% If any man shall adj
unto these things, God shall add unit
him the plaques that are written i
this Book" If this preacher is be
lever in the book that he pretend
to believe in, he certainly should TAX
warning and not try to change th
words of Matthew, just because the
do not correspond with those of Luke
1t is impossible my dear Brother t
make any of them correspond. Eve
the account of the crucifxion and tn
conversation of the thieves crucifie
with Christ is given three differen
ways
There are so many contradiction
that poor little 1x2 elder, if he a
tempted to find excuses would hav
his time so occupied that he could nc
get his Mems Brotherhood, Daughter
of the King, Tireless Toilers, Littl
Workers and the various other gratis
that are run in connection with th
Church. organized and on a producin
basis; and leaving out the inevitabl
chicken dinners and rummage sale