The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-26
THE PUBLIC FORUM
CAPTAIN WHITE & COMPANY.
(Second Act.l

In your Saturdays issue, the apolC
gists Tor Superstition, writing unde
the name of Captain G. S. White. 9TH
first part of the title capitalized) tn
answer to my charge that Polygam,
and Cannibalism are taught in tn
Bible is answered by the statemen
that Millions of the most enlightened
races of the world accept Christianity
SC it is true.
No doubt, these Brethren, in theil
mad desire to Corner" all Christian
ity will take in their loving embrace
the Catholic Church, both the Roman
and the Greek Catholic, and it might
be well to insist that they, say whether
or not they believe that the Catholics
are to be saved. 1t would be well
then, to find out whether they believe
that the Mormons will be saved, also
the Christian Scientists, the Puritans,
the Advents, the Lutherans and the
Unitarians All these different sects
acknowledge the Divinity of the Book,
and all of them believe in the Jewish
Bible, II is a fact as Captain Whites
Assistant well knows that the Bible
he uses is different from the Bible
that the Catholic Church uses, and It
is also fact that until very recently
this preachers bunch" thought the
Catholic Church to be THE Mother of
Harlots," and believed her TO be the
Beast mentioned in the Apocalypse
the apparition that the inspired John
saw In his famous vision. 1t might be
we'll for these honest earnest sup
porters of Fable and Myth to state in
their next effuson which Bible is true,
the Catholic version or the Protestant
one Poor feeble and frail man should
have all these little items thoroughly
Strengthened out so he would know
which book to follow.
If my worthy antagonists disclaim
the Catholic element of their Millions
of Christians" then they will have to
cut off over half their total Believers,
and they will. If they admit that the
Christian Scientists, Mormons, and
Unitarians, to fellowship, have to re-
wise their creed of Baptism for the
Remission of Sins" If they admit the
Latter Day Saints, (Mormons), then
ask them, il that long haired Patriarch
at independence last week who stated
that God took him forcibly and laid
hir- u length on the floor and told
hfa what he wanted done, to state if
this eoo,d ola nan who believes inn
plicitly In the Book of Mormon--be.
lieVes that the Prophet Joseph Smith
actually dag UP the golden plates of
the 15Ook Ne recipient of
miracle, or was he the victim of a
hallucination.
What If the men of the Bible,--the
Bible characters did do wrong, shrieks
the Captain. What brake has a man
who is an infdel to hold him in check?"
To this I will say that there are peo-
pie that can do right for rights sake.
and do not have to be.scared into Low
ing the Lord with all their Soul. Mind
and Strength" by the threat of an
eternal punishment in hell. | would
hate to admit to the Celestial Book
Keeper that my pinions were sprouted
through fear ard that was sojourn-
ing in Heaven,--not on account of my
Love of God, but my fear of the Devil.
Truth Mercy, Justice, and Morality
do not need any aids of fear except in
the brains of pious hypocrites whose
superstitious terors are developed by
q recollection of the infamies they
have committed in the past
The attitude of these pious defenders
Of Joseph. who through the aid of the
great Jehovah eornered all the corn
OF Egypt-the Royal Joseph who is
worshipped as the He-Virgin extraordi-
nary Of all history.-the same Joseph,
who when confined in Jail at the in
stance of potiphar's wife. fable tells
us, wrote on the wall, this couplet
"On this assertion. I'll wager my life,
No preacher would run from Potiphar's
wife is reflected very forcibly in the
sermon of a Human Hyena, Reverend
Geo. Chalmers Richmond, delivered in
Philadelphia last week in which he
said of John Jacob Astor: The death
Of John Jacob Astor breaches a great
gospel of Gods power to us all There
are forces in life which demand recog-
nition and obedience. Mr.. Astor and
his crowd of New York and Newport |
associates for years have not paid the
slightest attention to the laws of the
church or state which have seemed to
contrayene their personal pleasures or
sensual delights. But you
can't defy God all the time. The day
of reckoning comes and comes not in
our own way"
To this damnable excoriation OF a
man who died at his post like a hero. |