The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-26
Editor chieftain:

Editor Chieftain:
see that the argument / am max
ing is having its effect on MIR. Obser
yer. He has come to the conclusion
that some preacher is aiding me and
Especially in my last two preceding
PARTICLES. Don't squirm, Mr. Observer
you have never touched the question
at issue with an argument up-to-date
! stated at the very outset for your
benefit at a time when | thought you
an honest truth-seeker that one good
reason for believing the divine inspir-
alton of the Bible was that it gave a
/ correct history of every man men
toned whether his deeds were good
or evil You won't do that even in
this enlightened day. You have dem
onstrated beyond all question. that
you have done your best to strengthen
your position by not only drawing pic
Isuppressing their good qualities. You
kick because you are invited out into
the open that those who you are try
| ing to mislead or who you are trying
to pose before as a wise, learned man,
or so that the Christians OF Vinita
might size you up and get your true
worth to the community And | re-
peat that there can be but two con-
clusions reached by your failure to do
SO. Either your character and life
won't bear the light of day, or you are
a moral coward that can not face adj
verse public opinion. And at this
point if pour threat is meant for me
| call your hand.
You plead guilty to reading between
the lines and have interpreted that
| am quoting from some preacher.
Well you are just in the same boat in
this particular as in your every effort
so far That little Arkansas joke you
got off is a star in your ecursions. You
have revamped it in your last effort
and attempted to laugh your self
through.
Here are some of the troubles that
handicap you. You have never put
yourself in the position where you
can legally testify The Christian
knows he is right by the power of the
spirit. You place yourself on level
with the beasts of the field You have
been born, you live and when you die
that's the end of you Now if you are
right why do you want to do away
with the Christian religion? If you
should be wrong what are you doing
for yourself and your fellow man?
The evidence says the fated men on
the Titanic prayed. That like you and
your class that they had forgotten
God and had trouble recalling their
youthful prayer. But they prayed just
as you'll probably do when you face
your DOOM How came Thar band to
plays"Near My God to Thee
Another wrong you are doing your
fellow man: a good many people are
ascribing Your letter to another pro
fessional man and it is not doing him
any good.
Now some more reading between
the lines. You are supposed to have
written an article for the Chieftain
sometime ago in which you took
sides agains- a popular law and yet
your moral courage was not sufficient
to allow your name to be signed to the
article. | mention this not to estab-
lish the fact of your moral cowardice
for that has long since been settled,
but to show that you are out OF line
with the times. You are an old soured,
disappointed, disgruntled man, and
evidently in your dotage, prematurely
hence like the drunken man think
everybody but yourself off.
You stated that the matter at issue
is whether the Bible is the most read
book in the world. You admit that
you have read 1t, that all infidels have
read it. OF course all Christians read
1t. Now tell us some other one book
that everybody reads.
Now il you haven't admitted the
question can't see what you could
say to admit that you are beaten OF
c. urse you are mad. you have it in
for preachers. You are in sympathy
with criminals and would like to be
able to follow your lusts and not be
bound by the moral laws of the Bible.
Why, Mr.. Observer, You admit
Christianity every time you date a
letter, or book an account.
If by any accident YOU should get
seriously hurt, your first cry of dis
tress would be 0, Lord.
Yes. sir, III leave it to every Chris