The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-02-23

men at home and abroad, in their
places OF business and their public as
semblies, n art and in science. in leg
islation, religion and philosophy? Does
1t not all proceed fro mthe conflicts
of reason? The entire history of our
race is the history of millions of men
gifted with reason who have been in
perpetual conflict one with another.
1t is with such reason, then, that sen
tence is to be pronounced upon a de-
vinely given book? A purely rational
revelation would certainly be contra
diction Of terms; besides, it would be
wholly superfluous. But when reason
undertakes to speak Of things entirely
supernatural, invisible and eternal. it
talks as a blind man about colors. dis
.coursing of matters concerning which
it neither knows nor can know any
thing; and thus it makes itself ridicu-
lous. 1t has not ascended up to hea-
ven, neither has it descended into the
deep; and therefore a purely rational
religion is no religion at all.
The French Revolution is a flaming
testimony as to the fallacy of depend
ing on reason for direction or guidance
in either civic or individual matters.
The brilliant nfidel writer's of France,
the men who declaimed eloquently
with voice and pen in behalf of free
dom from the tyranny of superstition
and religion, sowed dragons teeth that
brought forth fearful harvest. And
although more than an hundred years
have come and gone, yet the gaping
wounds made then are not yet healed.
What a horrible elimination there
was to that harvestage Of infidel seed
sowing! The bloody guilotine, the
dreadful crimes committed in the name
of Liberty and Reason; the awful
action of the blood-craz-
ed multitude that carried notorious
harlot in a chair of state into the
Church of Madelaine, and there wor-
shipped her as the Goddess of Rea-
SON." This and many other similar
tragical scenes have occurred in the
history of the past, when men were
allowed their own way, and followed
the dictates of their own poor fallible
reason. 1t was the same just before
the flood in Genesis. Men did as they
listed, and the end was state of fear
full Righteousness and anarchy, and
God was compelled to sweep them off
the face of the earth and only few
were preserved as the nucleus of a
new creation-Noah and his family.
And our Lord Jesus Christ declared
hat "As it was in the days of Noah
80 shall also the coming of the Son
If Man be-" We are we'll aware that
he mocking unbelieyer will say,
Where is the promise OF his coming
For since the fathers fell asleep, all
sullSo NOlltiuuC do llCs nCIC ltOlll lllS
beginning of the creation" G. Peter
}:4.
These are the kind who are describ-
I'd in the same Holy Word as being
filled with all unrighteousness;" the
very same spawn of the Evil One the
Holy Spirit announces should abound
n the earth in the last times" the
Kind spoken of as Chiefly them that
walk after the flesh in the lust of un-
and despise government.
are they self-willed,
they are not afraid to SPEAK EVIL
OF DIGNITIES But these, |
as NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS,
MADE TO BE TAKEN AND DE-
speak EVIL OF THE
THAT THEY UNDERSTAND
NOT; and shall utterly perish IN
THEIR OWN CORRUPTION; and
shall receive the reward of unright-
as they count it pleasure to
riot in the day time q Peter
2: :10-14