The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-02-09
The Champion Believer.

his Brief" on the authenticity of the
Holy Scriptures. The captain unequi-
Ivocally places his o. X. on the whole
Iof the Bible, and Has no apologies to
offer for anything that might appear
in the book" He even intimates that
he would like for the Supreme Ruler
of the Universe to have placed some
thing harder on him than the reconcil-
ing of the ignorant fables and foolish
myths of the Bible with the discov-
cries of science.
This avowal on the part of the Cap
tain is surprise to us as he is prob
ably the only Defender of Superstition
in the city Of Vinita who accepts the
whole story without mental reserva-
ton.
In the captains articles on farming,
he has always held out the idea that
farmers should proceed along scienti-
fic lines-that they should follow that
holy trinity, reason, observation and
Experience, but now the captain sees
no chance for any Improvement and
the things that have been found out
by Investigators and thinkers during
the last 1000 years are cast aside, and
the Mother" argument, the refuge of
Ignorance from time immemorial, is
Invoked.
The Captain being placed on record
as the Champion Believer, of course
has no difficulty in understanding that
the Darkness of Egypt was SO thick
that it could be felt; that God divid-
ed the waters above the armament
from those below the armament; that
500 feet of water fell each day during
the flood; that the grass grew before
a ray of tight was launched from the
.quiver of the sum- that the sun was
stopped a whole day in order to give
General Joshua a little time in which
to murder a few more helpless babes;
that the sun was turned backward in
his course 10 degrees in order to con-
vince a barbarian Hezekiah that he
was not going to die from carbuncle;
that after making the earth, this grain
of sand, He made the stars also, either
one of which is many times larger
than our little planet.
The Captain doubtless has no trou-
BILE in understanding that the Bible
was originally written in Hebrew
characters without vowels, or punctu-
alton and that it was not divided into
chapters or verses until the 10th cen
tury, and that pious monks made all
necessary alterations. On the subject
of ventilation, the Captains scientific
mind is not worried when he reads in
the book an account of a building five
hundred feet long, ninety feet wide
and 55 feet high with one window
about two feet square.
The Ark finally rested on the top
of Mount Ararat, four thousand feet
above the line of eternal SHOWS, in
order no doubt, that the animals from
the tropics could have a breath of
fresh air.
rhe fact that the Almighty left the
throne of Heaven and came to earth
to give priest directions as to how
to make patterns for tongs, snffers
an dother paraphernalia used by Moses
and Aaron in ministering to the spir-
tual welfare of the Israelities, or that
Moses, the leader of the chosen peo-
pie, was a murderer, and fugitive
from justice, does not alter the case
with Bro. White.
Captain, it will not do! Come out
into the glorious light of the goth cen
tury and do like the balance of the
believers do; when fact as establish
ed by science becomes a fact as evi
denced by your reason, throw away
that part of the book. Spiritualize it,
or forget it. Call the days of crea-
tion long whiles, Eons, or ages and
say that the world was evolved and
assist the heretics of this age who are
trying to harmonic the foolish myths
of the Bible by explaining away por-
tions, to get rid of the Objectionable
material. We now rarely hear of the
fires of hell except in times of great
stress to-wit: During revivals where
the results are not satisfying, and on
II ose occasions the fires of hell are
rekindled and the unbelieyer is shook
over the flames and the adolescents
are given a picture of the eternal
guish of the damned On other
casions, Hell is Violated Co
science" and we have persos g
ard personal devil.
I call attention to the
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