The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-19

these conditions are called Laws Man
has taken advantage of his knowledge
of these laws and has harnessed these
forces for his use in the economy of
life, and | do not believe that you can
find any of your eo-laborers in the
army of superstition who believe now
that a God exists in the Winds, in the
Tides or in the Thunderbolts. Ben
jamin Franklin taught us how to har-
ness Electricity, and Edison has
shown us a hundred uses for that Won
derful attribute of matter. Every In
candescent light bulb, every Electric
Motor, every Telephone, is a living
witness to the fact that man has con-
trolled and governed to that extent,
the mysterious force of Magnetism,
(once believed by the ignorant TO be
spirit and is using that force in the
economy of the world. lgnoramus, if
he will turn back to his heather Myth
ology, will discover that his idea of
God in every manifestation of the ma
rial universe, is not new He will
find that they had a God for the Blue
Sky, a God for each Of the Winds, and
a God for the Deep and Gods for all
natural phenomena. They were not
stingy with their Gods; but he IS just
going to have one God, and, accord
ing to his own implied argument, man,
puny man, is capable of harnessing
God and making him do the drudgery
of the world.
Calico after a lifelong study, came
to the conclusion that the Copernican
theory of the earths movement around
the Sun was correct and wrote very
able defense of his belief. The Cath
ollie Church forced him to recant; but
Ibis remark on coming away from the
Trial has become a classic; K Pur
81 Muoye," (But it does move), and
Ignoramus, if he is hunting rational
Explanations for natural phenomenon,
may be convinced if open to conviction,
that the UNIVERSE is ALL THAT
THERE is, and that it exists under
fixed conditions we call LAWS, and
Isuch a thing as special providence is
incomprehensible No little Jewish
lGod outside of the World.
If God was the cause of that Tidal
wave that overwhelmed Sicily, why
Ididnt he save that great congregation
of people that had gathered in the
churches and were begging for succor
| Anything that occupies space and
has extension of interpenetrability is
matter, according to Tyndal, and
Force. is only a mode of motion OF
that matter,-a mode of motion of the
particles of a mass.
1 Ignoramus, in his conclusion, places
his approval on Pantheism, aud l have
no fault to find with him for putting
a God in everything; but | call his ct
Itention to the fact that the Early
Tribes Of North American Indians had
|, the same beliefs, which Pope has sc
beautifully described in the following
!. Istanza:
LILO, the poor Indian! whose untutoret
Il mind
Sees God in the clouds, or hears hin
in the winds;
, His soul, proud science never taugb
to stray
Far as the solar walk, or milky way
Yet simple nature to his hope ha'
) giv'n,
| Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humble
3 heav'u;
l Some safer world in depths of wood
r embraced,
! Some happier island in the water,
5 waste,
: Where slaves once more their nativ
land behold,
Y No fiends torment, no Christians thirs
+ for gold.
: To be, contents his natural desire,
Y He asks no angels wing, no seraph'
: fire;
4 But thinks, admitted to that equa
s sky,
Y His faithful dog shall bear hir
i company
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