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


most unable to tell whether they are
BEASTS or MEN. These infidel ma
lures around us have ascertained that
they are nothing more than beasts,
without any special revelation from
Darwin as to the facts; but an apology
is due the animal world, because
THEY never make merry over the
fact that they are beasts, while these
bipeds, or two-legged creatures make
merry over that which is a melancholy
idea to every sensible intellect. And
lif the truth were known, these rene
gadoes from truth and righteousness
have little to make merry over than
their own melancholy, and the annoy
ance they give true Christians.
was in the country the other day
and heard an ass bray, and he really
seemed inclined to be merry. perhaps
because a smaller ass nearby kicked
up his heels and whisked his tail, as
if pleased with the braying! And it
is a solemn fact that all intidels are
melancholy assesl 1t cannot be other
wise What is there in infidelity to
make a man merry? Think of the
conclusions of infidelity Forever
NOTHING, or forever MISERABLE!
As one has said, 1T would take the
power of Laughing gas" every mo-
ment. to maintain merriment with
TWO SUCH IDEAS knocking at the
door of the heart for admittance. That
was a great famine in Samaria, when
an ASSES HEAD sold for fourscore
pieces of silver II would require a
greater famine of the Word Of God.
: before the heads of such asses, or the
product thereof, would fetch as much
But here is another strange phe-
nomiona: Those who have jested
most at orthodox sentiments. have by
just series of consequences been
given up to believe the most unac-
+ countable things that were ever cir
e culated among mankind. Those who
: sneer at CREED, have always one of
t their own: every man believes some
t thing and he who deviates from the
: TESTIMONY which is the standard of
d religious truth lives in the belief OF
d those sentiments which believers have
d right to despise.
e But to recur to the conclusions of
e infdelity. What is there in it to COM
T mend it to a thinking, sentient, intel.
s ligent being? Take a Newton, Mil
n ton, a Shakespeare, Did they not
l. possess soults? If men of such stamp
It had souls, who gave them the immor-
z, tai principle? Into whose hands did
It they return? Was it annihilation to
y them? DO such men-men of gigantic
4 humanity disappear into nothingness?
)f 1t cannot be. The very suggestion is
t. revolving to all the nobler faculties of
i. the mind 1t is against reason, com
e the agony in the garden, the torture
n of the Cross. 1t is also against human
s. nature Man, as one once said lin
v any state, is supremely selfish. He
n wants hereafter. He ardently de-
,r sires another world when he gets old.
y place to lie down, to sleep, perhaps
II to dream" Life's battles may have
borne against him heavily. Bosoms-
ar despite all love, and courage, and
IN watchfulness, and tenderness-have
ct been stricken down at his side. He
e. knows where his graves are. The dew
Sc falls upon them like a benediction.
le The birds sing above them as they do
to when they find sweet seed in the sum
le mer grasses. He is worn now, and
n feeble and far spent He dies, and
ut men like Robert Ingersoll say that
y death is the last of him. He turns
tn to a leaf, a sprout, a shrub, perhaps a
a four-leaf clover, perhaps head of
at timothy, it may be one thing or it
e may be another but whatever, it is,
an the end is utter oblivion
b. Oh friendly reader! am sure you
ef see that such darksome doctrine is
te against even every selfish instinct of
III man; that such fate is most unde-
u9 sirable. In your inner being there is
er constant revolt against such abnom-
es inable pagansm Indeed it is worse
than paganism. Pagansm did have
at it's affairs, its shrines, its sacred
Id groves, its temples, its yestal virgins
ed its priests, its augurs, its elysian
an fields, its gods, its goddesses. its
nd spirits of good and of evil; but il
ry NEVER HAD EXTINCTION. Instead
IS; it had sinners immortal in their ca
en- pacity to suffer and endure. Pagan
I'D ism had its Pluto, its Prometheus. Its
Id Prosperine and Acteon; it had its
lot Midas and Tantalus; it had its Furies
of and the Eumenides; but even Pagan
M ism, with all of its lack of light, was
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