The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-05-03
The QUESTION AT ISSUE.

In your issue OF saturday laSt no
tice that my worthy opponent, Cap
tain White, has from his lofty post
on the watch tower of Zion. promul
Igated the old-time notion that the op-
Iposition TO his beliefs is not honest,
and even if honest, their argument
would be of no effect because great
riches had not come to crown their eff
forts.
The Captain also insists now, that
the question at issue is "The Bible is
the book most read" and affirms that
the Bible is that book If the Captain
will take the time to read his first eff
fusions, he will find that l asked him
certain questions regarding his book,
and he, not responding to the ques-
tions, stated very emphatically and
with good deal of feeling that he
believed that the Book was the found
alton of all morality, justice and civil
ization and that it had placed women
in her present high position, and he
made his belief very broad. He ac-
cepted it bug and cherry. Twas
all inspired
My next artice was entitled Cap
tain White, the Champion Believer"
and in that article, and in articles sub
sequently, | have attacked his posi-
ton that the Bible was the Founda-
ito nof Morality, Truth Civilization
and Justice. and have quoted largely
fro mthe Captains text book, with
some reference to the history of the
various peoples who have CLAIMED
that they believe the same way as the
Captain. How well | have succeeded,
II will leave to the Chieftain's readers.
/ hardly think the Captains friends
will accept his notion as to the stand
ing of an opponent; to-wit: An op-
ponent must have been a man who
has been very successful in business
way, has gotten rich and is showered
with riches, honor and distinction, for
were they to accept this view, they
would be without an advocate, as the
Captains standard is too high for he
himself to reaeh.--IIe would be barred.
II is really amusing to see how he
founders around trying to avoid the
scripture that ! quote him in each of
my articles, and how he tries to dodge
the issue by claiming that ! am not
reputable witness and that am des-
pers;siy poor and needy, unfortunate
and making a display of my erudition.
The Captain should remember that his
great teacher once said:
Therefore, take no thought of the
morrow, what ye shall eat or
what We shall drink Behold
the fowls of the air, for they SOW not,
neither do they reap, nor gather into
barns, yet your heavenly father feed
eth them--Matthew VI, %. 26.
In the same Book. (Matthew. vi,
10. this language occurs: Lay not
up for yourselves treasures on earth.
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves break through and steal
If there is any further doubt in the
Captains mind, as to whether | could
qualify by the standard that he says
he believes, | ask him to consider this
text: 1T is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to enter the kingdom of
heaven. Mark X, %.
can not forego the temptation at
this point to call the Captains atten-
ton to stanza from Gray's Elegy, as
its application is SO apparent:
let not ambition mock their useful
toll,
Their homely joys and destiny OBJ
scme;
Nor grandeur hear with disdanful
smile,
The short and simple annals of the
poor"
And the final condition of us lowly
people-our final condition when We
have received the plot of earth 6x2x3
feet is aptly shown in another stanza
from the same poem;
Can storied urn or animated bust,
Back to its mansion call the aeeting
breath?
Can honor's voice provoke the silent
dust,
OR lattery soothe the duh cold ear of
death?"
The Captain would ostracise us here
on earth. ruin our business and social
relations with our friends, and then,
in the untold ages of eternity. he would
have MS tortured for ever and ever,
and with a seraphic smile, and an Il
told you so expression" would take
his place in the choir with the Angelic
hosts and, with his cracked and quar-
ering Profoundo-lnnuendo voice
sing:
oXNa tvbfla fho s4ors frat, I,aa,4ao shatl