The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-02-19

tual cripple Now We viii look over /
your article entitled beginning at the
beginning. you say that We have def
mite records that Moses wrote all the
words OF the Lord, and refer me TO
Exod "a, and verse 4. Here is the
verse And be hewed two tablets of
stone ike unto the first and Moses
rose up early in the morning and went
up unto Mount Sinai as the Lord had
commanded him and took in mis- hand
the two tables of stone" Now does
that verse read as il Moses had been
the writer; does il not seem as II it
was somebody else writing about
Moses. l have not space in a news
paper article to show much evidence,
Why do not believe that Moses wrote
the books ascribed TO him And con-
vince the average mind that | am as
sincere and honest in my belief as If
] claimed to believe that a serpent held
conversations with people, or that
Balaam's ass had the powers of articu-
lation and asked some very pointed
questions Of his driver. So ! will only
take few Of the most convincing pas
sages that / have noticed, look up the
18th chapter Of Numbers: And Miriam
and Aaron spake against Moses be
cause of the Ethiopian woman whom
he had married: for he had married
an Ethiopian woman" | suppose that
means that he married a negro wo-
man. end verse And they, meaning
Miriam and Aaron, said hath the Lord
indted spoken only by Moses, hath he
not spoken also by us and the Lord.
Now the man Moses was very meek
above all the men which were upon
the face of the earth" Now in the
name of common sense does that read
like as if Moses was the writer and
this same style is carried on till we
come to Deuteronomy, chapter 34
verse 5: so Moses, the servant of
the Lord died there in the land of
Moab, according to the word of the
Lord. And he buried him in a valley
in the land of Moab over against Beth
peor, but no man knoweth of his
lsepulchre unto this day" Did Moses
write these verses?
Capt. White proves that David wrote
the psalms by quoting from the book
of 3 Samuel. Letus look in the first
book of Samuel and see if We can
prove also that W tchcraft existed. look
Iup 1st Smauel, chapter 2S. / can't
quote the whole thing. but here is the
heading: "Achish puteth confidence in
David. Saul having destroyed the
Witches, and now in his fear forsaken
Iof God seeketh to a witch, the witch
encouraged by Saul raiseth up Samuel
from the grave
No wonder John Wesley said to drop
witchcraft was to deny the inspired
scripture Here Is a miracle unsur-
passed by anything recorded, perform
ed by the witch of Endor What can
you or what can you not prove by the
writer of the books of Samuel. The
lCaptain wants to prove by Luke that
Luke wrote one of the books called
THE gospel. If it is the truth, if it is
the word Of the Almighty that is what
TO prove. II these four gospels try to
do anything it is to prove that the
Messiah longed for by the Jews arrived
in the person called Jesus of Nazerath
Also to prove that he was devine, that
he was God and to show as clearly
J as can, that they did not establish his
divinity | will begin with Matthew
and carry Luke's account along side
: by side from David to Christ according
TO Matthew was twenty-eight genera
| tions. According to Luke it was forty
three generations, and if this was
case in our court this proves they
| wrote about different Jesus.
Do you know that nothing so blinds
man to justice as that abnormal de
sire for political pie that hemanifesti
lin that article. And as | said before
: | am with the intention now, as before
, if the editor gives me space of pass
ing remarks on all our county officers
yes and political pie hunters also
they come If the pie Willie tina
wrote that article has not got enougl
he can come again, he can get tire
! meals day of this kind of pie am
cost him no more than it costs any o
our county officers that think hay
: made good and that is nothing.
]. RATCLIFF,
Estella