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THE PUBLIC FORI
Tb!s department in the Daily aud
Weekly Chieftain will be for the use
of correspondents m ho wish to' discuss
subjects of interest lo Intelligent read
ers. The Chieftain is not responsible
for the various views hereunder ex
pressed. All communications should
be brief, pointed and courteous. The
long-winded disquisition will be Blower
in pettliur published, and the short
article will get the most readers.
El Nathan Sees the Light.
Kditor of The Chieftain:
I am pleased to note that KL NA
THAN, alias Rev. Hasttis Ilonehead
alias Elder Crapsey, has in a maze of
words finally ' virtually acknowledged
that the great truths taught by Dar
win are correct.
In Justice- to this remarkably well
educated man, this "Redeemed
preacher who stoops to the ordinary
billingsgate, 1 note that ho has im
proved ou Darwin and thinks the the
ory of Involution "Evolves more
quickly than Darwin thought, and he
goes back to the famous refuge of the
"Educated" (?) the best educated
scientists of this Country are coming
to this conclusion. This a safe prop
ositionThe Host Scientists;" but
we Insist that this disciple of Super
stitUm NAMES these prominent
Scientists those who have rejected
the teachings of Darwin. I will ven
ture the assertion, that outside per
haps, of some little theological school,
(I should say cemetery), he will be
unable to name 'he eminent scientists.
I call upon him now to name any one
connected with any of the great State
Universities, and I will allow him to
even refer to Standard Oil Company
Jno. D. Rockefeller's Raptist Univer
sity of Chicago, who deny Darwinism.
In passing, 1 might note that this, mili
tant defender of the murder of babes
and the career of his patron saint
David, whose life was patterned "after
God's own. l'eart," and compared with
whom, Captain Kldd and Jesse James
become aureoled Saints, admits that
he Is very well educated and has on
his shelves the last word on all the
subjects which these discussions have
touched. This modest little admission
on the part of Brother Nathan leads
me to ask him how sacred a book has
to be to justify the crime of murder.
It also leads me to ask him If it is not
a fact that the first murder committed
was on account of religion.
EL. NATHAN, come up to the' rack
and acknowledge to your readers that
the first murder the murder of Abel
by his brother Cain, was oa account
of religious persecution. Abel's sacri
fice, according to the account, was
more pleasing to the Lord, as it was
the firstlings of his flocks and Cain's
sacrifices of ruit were not acceptable,
as the Lord, It seems has always pre-J
ferred sacrifices of animals. The spill
ing of blood and odor of roasted meat
being very gratifying to him, and the
meat being good to keep the priests
from starvation.
The two children of our first par
ents, trying to propitiate their Deity
performing the first religious rites
mentioned in the Bible, introduced the
crimes of murder and religious perse
cution and they have kept hand in
hand until a very recent date. A brief
period of a hundred years in our coun
try would produce examples, and one
year would show a very prominent in
stance in Spain, in the murder of
Francis Ferrer by the Catholic church.
El Nathan digresses about 400 words
in his article of yesterday in order to
insert a little Ron Mot originated (?)
in his fertile (?) brain In which he
likens us to a "Wild Ass," and he then
apologizes after he has Introduced
this unanswerable argument.
If El Nathan wants to drag all his
relatives into this discussion, it Is no
affair of mine, and whatever unction
he can tako to his soul in using such
stuff as alleged argument in proving
that Moses 'evolved creation quickly,
will be satisfactory to me.
When Nathan takes down another
volume in that collection of his that
library which according to his intima
tion surpasses the famous collection
of the Alexandrian library before it
was destroyed by Napoleon, I would
suggest to him that he carefully looks
up the Text that proves that the King
James Bible which iineq.ulvocujjy says
on the title page was translated out
of original manuscript from the orig
inal Greek, when the Bible writers
knew only Hebrew, is correct. He
might note the fact also, that there
is not an original manuscript of any
of the books of the Bible, save per
haps "one at St Petersburg, and that
this one Is dated 400 years after Christ,
and he might in passing give us the
names and the character of the con
tents of the lost books of the Bible,
among which scholars list "The Book
of Wars," "The Book os Jasher," "The
Hook of Nathan" (Not El), and "The
Hook of Gad."
1 want to compliment the Rev.
Jerome E. W. Jackson, the colored
minister of this city who had an ar
ticle in a recent issue of the Chieftain
in which be acknowledges that it is
impossible to harmonize the crude
fables of the Bible with the dis
coveries of science. The Caucasian
defenders of Superstition" have not
proven as careful as he in making
their statements. I do not blame this
elder of the Colored Baptist church for
trying to bccuo the reputation of bis
race, for the distinguished EI. Nathan,
had been slandering his people In a
lot of alleged negro dialect staff stuff
that would shame the jargon of a
South Sea Islander. Rev. Jut ksoii'n
article is so much ahead of any of his
white contemporaries that I take off
my hat to him, and believe that If El
Nathan will go to Elder Jerome E. W.
Williams for sonic light, he can bo
accomodated, and he will not be under
the necessity In the future of saying
that tho sun and moon "tarried," In
stead of standing still. Just what dif
ference there is In tho two statements
deponent Baith not. Elder Nathan's
church career reminds us of a story
recently passed around. It seems that
an old darkey conceived a nation that
he would be much better off in his
chance for an Eternal Home in the
Celestial C ity if he could secure mem
bership in a very exclusive high-toned
"White church. tn darkey approach
ed the membership committee and:
made his wants known and they hated
to turn him down outright, for they
of course believed, that the colored
man and the white man went to the
same Heaven: but tney tola meir
preacher to talk tho darkey out of the
notion. Agreeable to this arrange
ment, the pastor sought out the darkey
and told hint that he had better take
the matter up with the Lord and pray
over it earnestly. The darkey went
his way, and some time later, when
seen again, the pastor said: "Well,
Rastus, what did you do regarding the
prayer to the Lord as to securing com
immloii in our Church."
'Well' says Rastus, "I done tole
the lxrd about trying to Jine your
church, and how hard I had tried, and
he said, 'Keep on trying, Rastus, Use
been tryin' to git in that church for
twenty year, and I hasn't made it yet.
Tliat'8 the situation with El Nathan's
church, the Lord has been trying to get
into it for several years but he has not
been able to make the riffle. The
great trouble with our distinguished
opponent, and all his lieutenants. Is
that they pretend . to believe some
thing that is Impossible to believe.
Nathan well -knows that the Old
Fables and Myths of the' Bible are un
believable and unspeakably cruel, and
knows too that the Couunandments
that he pins his Faith too are Impos
sible and unreasonable. Any sensible
man knows that it is impossible for a
human being to "Iove the Lord thy
God with all thy might and with all
tiiy soul." This Commandment is so
foolish that any reasonable man, after
moment's reflection will admit to
himself (at least) is impossible.- A
man might worship the "Book," or a
symbol as a fetich, but how could he
love any being that he had not seen,
especially a Being that made man,
knowing when he made him that he
would damn him, and punish him for
ever and ever.
The Commandment: "Thou shalt
love they neighbor as thyself," is also
foolish and one that could not be ac
complished unless human nature is en
tirely made over. No man of any
sense believes that this can be done.
El Nathan, he of the Most Holy
Faith and large library (of Almanacs
and-Patent Medicine Advertisements),
will not write a further testimonial
of his mental vacuity, by endorsing
this commandment.'
I was a tittle disappointed that Na
than did not further carry out his
apology for the discrepancy of three
hundred years between Matthew and
Luke on Christ's Genealogy, and had
thought when he got that untangled, 1
wjuld have him explain away the dis
crepancy on the trip of , Christ to
Egypt after his birth. Matthew says
that he was taken to Egypt, Matthew
II, Ch. 14-23, to avoid being put to
death by Herod, while Luke says that
after the circumcision, eight days after
birth, Luke II, 22-39 and II, 21, they
returned to Galilee, and to their own
City Nazareth. Why do inspired writ
ers contradict each other in material
statements? OBSERVER,
Al. G. Field Greater Minstrels.
(Continued From Page Oce.)
the Greater Minstrels would not be
complete without a mention of the
umpires. Gov. Bowen, umpire-in-chief,
has adopted "Silk O'Laughlin as his
namesake and his "Strike Tuh" makes
fans ait up aud look around for the
real "Silk." John Healey the other
near-arbiter, Is neither busher nor big
leaguer, he is an unknown and in a
class by himself. His performance is
the kind that starts riots and makes
business for the undertaker.
Players and umpires alike are ex
tremely interesting in their impersona
tions and the game between two color
ed teams is a scream. This hi novel
feature of the Greater MJnstrels 'has ,
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of the season's stage productions and
in itself is only a small part of a min
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decade.
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