The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-05-17

ministers of all denominations with
some noble exceptions) are the chief
foes to real Bible study. Christians of
all denominations love and reverence
the Bible as the Word of God. Under
the light now shining from one page
of il to another. they would soon dis
card the creeds of the darker past and
become one united church-with "one
Lord, one Faith, one Baptism were
il not for the ministers. The preach
ers having lost faith in the inspiration
of the Bible are higher critics, They
do not wish to show their unbelief,
hence avoid Bible discussion. They
await the ripening of unbelief when
they can publicly say, We educated
ministers have not believed the Bible
inspired for many long years. We
kept quiet until you would not be
shocked by the statement. But to the
proofs:
Cd The preachers know that the
only Hebrew word translated hell in
our Bibles has no reference whatever
to a great torture-ehamber such l-as
their people believes contains nearly
all humanity. Privately they viii ad-
NIT that "sheOl" means the tomb, and
that its equivalent in the New Testa-
ment Greek is "hades" They Will ad-
nit, too, that Cinema" is the name of
valley outside Jerusalem where rub
bish was consumed and explained
Biblically to symbolic the Second
Death.-Rev. 20:14.
90 l charge Rev. Haldeman, d. d.,
with attempting to throw dust into the
mental eyes of Baptists by horribly
misrepresenting my teachings, to him
der his people from studying Bible
teachings to which call attention, by
cracking over their heads the whip of
fear When he declared by teachings
to be the blasphemous religion which
teachers the annihilation of Jesus
Christ" he intended his untruthful
words should scare timid sheep" and
hinder Bible study. He not only help
ed to hide the key of knowledge"
but in this unscrupulous way he tries
to keep the Lords people from finding
it. am positive he would not think
for a moment of defending his own
Church Greed in public. The misrep
resentation of my teachings is to rally |
the old spirit of the dark ages" the
spirit of hatred and sectarianism. His
followers will not so closely examine
their own creed if they are busy fight
ing a supposed enemy, and DR.. Halde-
man misrepresents me TO be that
enemy. Alas? what a heavy penalty
we may fear at the hands of the Lord
upon those who, posing as light-bear
ers, are serving the cause of darkness
hating the light and misiepresenting
it.
might multiply facts, but these may
suffice for the present. If Christian
people once realized the extent to
which they are being hoodwinked by
the clergy they would soon find abun-
dance of proof. If they ask for Bible
along simple lines (bread)
they will be given stone of evasion.
If they ask for stronger meat fish
they will get a serpent-a stingng re-
buke, for meddling in matters theolog-
ical, as though they doubted that the
preacher knew everything, and as
though they supposed that the laity
were capable of understanding any
thing! Abraham Lincoln well said,
You can fool all the people some of
the time, and some Of the people all of
tho time, but you can't fool all the peo-
pie all the time"
Faithful to the Morning light. G. Pet.
1870. c. T. RUSSELL.