The New Era. (Marfa, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 16, 1911 Page: 3 of 4
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altugetliex Ijecauac amid a world reject religion because .vfoses and
oFyruth there ate preserved some Mahomet, Luther and t’airio «n-
lij m‘s ruph as tempted the satire, textained crude ideas of the plans
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ants from tile hack disthets P At T'*> °f th° t>eit|W>r Atther of that tmbo^ l^y^.ages w^e tha ,^ult of .lauous.^hv.
least once each lu iar month for 1 ^puhsiu—wneWter Christ was glory hasj.iq^d^.^.^^tide of tivib^ition. -rfuufe th« ^oUlbg 4f gwrtwuueiiV
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tore l»v mental mi •mbes, or
walked on by ambitious doodle-
bugs, who wondered next day
to learn that you were ab-
sorbing your rations with clock-
work regularity and doing busi-,
ness at tho same old stand. I
once saw an egotiseal hrindle. pup
joyfully bestride the collar of an
adult wildcat, and the woeful re
sol! convinced me that Ambition
and Judgement should blithely
foot it hand in hand. That is
why. my <:e vr Colonel. \ approach
you by siege and parallel, instead
of capering gaily down
while apotheosizing Happiness
nans Let ua consider the re- you would banish Hope, that
ligion of the world in its entirety, mother of which it is born,
with the full understanding that But your labors have borne
all sects are essentially the same. p00(j as weJ1 as e^j fruit While
The core of all religion i- the your eiren eloquence has led
worship,of a Supreme Power, some doubting Thomases into the
;ii)d the (belief in man s iinrrior- barren desert of Atheism, you
tality. JJiat is the central idea have driven others to seek a bet-
around wlie h the immagination ter reason for theirie igious faith
of man has woven many a com- than barbarous tradition and the
plicated web, some beautiful as vote of ecumenical councils.
Araehne’* rcbe, some barbaric Bigotry hat quail** beneath the
ringing blows of your iconoclastic
hammer, dogmatism became
liam goat seeking h
colli- on with a runaway freight
engine.
Without any view for paving
flic way for a future loan, I tell j
ligion. more to intellectualize and
humanize man’s conception of
Almighty God ti>am any other
an 1 repulsive, but all of little
“:y d°r ,ywT pSliopSr v?dTnotami!t ak>.‘ X n*m,Dher* hl . ,becJ.me
right-- f-wey k a youthful \N.I \ .. 1 ( . ,. f. . . more humble. Without intending
h ad-end m‘M 1M11 e 1 •) " a '' 01 it, perhaps, you have done more
religious id* a. the garment which |0 ca„HC „f truo
ignorance weaves for omnis- ,:,S_________ __' ..,,.7 .
cence—for God himself-
Even if we grant that the Cre-
y» u frankly that I admire you j a*°r tmver yet communiealed <li- reformer since the days of Christ,
'cry much. Your public and J'e(,t|y with the oreaturejt hat man I(| 8ixty cenrurie9 0f earnest
private life prove you to he one ! '“«» noJ M<?Hn with mortal eyes toil, with infinite pain and tear-
«.f Go ’s noblest—and rarest— l>evond t!|e vei*t l,lt shrouds the fu| prayer, what knowledge have
works, an honest man. That you two eternities, it does not ollow we gained of God, oh brother
are tho equal morally and supe- that religious faith is but arrant mine, that we should quarrel
rior mentally of any man who has ,c^y* tn'!t &',d )s non-ex’ant about his plans or attributes? As
presumed to criticize you mu»t ,l.liain. )Ut the pitilul creature yet we can but touch the hem of
lie conceded. The prejudi
>f blind force I no dumb brute Divinitv’s robe; we can but hear
knows many things it was never ni0 voice in dreams or catch in
taught, and might not man. the fleeting visions glimpses of his
greatest of the animal creation, glory. *
be gifted with a knowledge based Why quarrel about our faiths
upon experience? So fur as oh- and declare that this is right or
,-v ...,J ......., ............. nervation goes, there is a provia-’that is wrong, when all religions
us infullable pope in the realm of ion tor t he satisfaction ol every are, and must of necessity ever
ini( Ih • t and declare that from pulsion, and the rno.-a powerful be, fundamentally one and the
of aH passions is the dread of an- garae_the „or,bip o£ a6uperior
.............. nihilatiou—the longing for con-1 Power the „,.eatH v
slavery, tin* most degrading : 'inual life. If doata ends all, I Ka,|wr ot ;lI| |„ ryery |„ evr-y en** adored
species of bondage, and it a then Jiere is a violation of ‘ ‘ »at- !
ural law”—a miracle! And you,
my dear colonel, do not believe
in miracles. If we discard Rev-
of honesty are entitled to consid-
eration and tiie judgement of
genius to respect bordering on
rev trance; but. in this age of al-
most universal inquiry we cannot
accept any man, h wover wise.
his ipse dixit there shall be no
ujqeal That were intellectual
\ our grea'est glory that you have
ever been '.he apostle of liberty
-liberty of the hand and liberty
Cult wars with cult and sect
with sect, while all mite to damn
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b’l’d’g. Office phone No.112
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W. G Young,
C.W.Livingston
Licensed
J" mbtilmers.
the independent worshipper; yet
mil mmm
which bufo. in the! ^aa‘L®V®ry GuebJer WOf8hiping
1 he smoke of a factory has been distorted into the visage of a ter-
rible ogre; the whistle of a locomotive has been mistaken for the war
whoop cf an Indian and the approach of capital lias scared many of
«>ur amateur statesmea into fighting a duel with civilization. Texas needs
leaders who will not become frightened at the torch of knowledge <n
stampede at the forces of progress. Texas needs great men.
Coffins, Caskets,
Funeral Goods.
MARFA, TEXAH.
tierce light wiiieh you have 1t,on tliat
taught the w- rid to turn full and a‘orta
fair upon all cults and creeds, 0
man was « hr„,a, |
7;;„v,i'b7'e„I,by;.i"b 5^™ 1 ^jy., ^ fJSSJLiSf&.'SlSU'SiftS
the false loirie of tire great critic ! P.oor ^".nderer and all hi- prat- ovortr ** ;,s_ * c( Time. I read the Revolution*
•immutable laws”
the false logic of lire great ......( Ue anent her
11 hi'vour warfare upon hvnocri- | raer,i nonsense,
cy and lmmbugery 1 am v it , you . rUJ,c;*'in* ^velation
heart and soul ; I will set my and mo.-kmg at Inspiration were
‘ , „„„ it not wel to determine their true
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iNHOUNCEMENT E1TRA0RD!I1RVU
Two new stories for readers of
every i eruvian adoring the rising vouchsafed to man since the birth , Two new stories for readers of
sun,every Methodist agonizing at Yime. I read the Revelations ! the Galveston 8emi-Weekly Farm
the mourner’s bench,ii a mem- and ponder the prophecies; I News. “Joe Wgston, Book
ber of the same great church, listen once again to the voice in
They rnav accredit their God with ^he buring brush and the mystic
different attributes and worship whisperings in the Dodona oak;
Him in diverse ways: but their ^ descend into the Delphic cave,
faith when stripped of non-es- °r -tand with uncovered bead to
sentials are one and the same— hear the voice .Memon answer to
the rosy fingers of the morn. 1
Farmer,*, begins Sept. 1st and
the story of “Miss Minerva and
William Green Hill” will begin
Sept. 5tb.
If you are not now a subscriber
send ycur order today before the
stories begin. In the Semi-
U. W. I!>’«;«w c. (i. Hyuw H. C. Hymn*
HYSAW LAxXtt CO.
Texaa and Mexico Lands.
u»c Stork. Kunrh#*, Kurin*,i»nd KxchanuM
sSperluhy CorrmpondeiK-o soilclta.l.
Marfa, ( freuldlo County ) Twxaa.
though hedged about with the mt- , 0 1.' m " j their Deities are identical. the rosy fingers of the morn. 1 stories begin. In the Semi-
persminnsof a thousand eentu- Jla*10^.; a2an ilfsm?rX mw-to' Men of our dav, who from di*- .'V‘th 8iddfr.tJa beneath the | W eekly Farm News not a phase
u-s.-uui licensed by prosenpitve j ‘^‘ V of God m the ^ heights of modern learning, »od. tree,and follow theprophet of the farmer a interest is over*
lunlef’s splendor as easily as i h^rl their logical thunderbolts at l8'Hfn 1" a,1Vfh'9 pdgnniings; I j looked harming is no longer a
uoon the tablce of st me? to hear Mahomet’s incoherent mouth- atand w,th ,«n S‘na,( 8 hit and mum business. It ts now
in'iirmur*5 of °the"-ea'as ' wifh the Alm^hty°inei»t SS pr^eTof Chrtrt "in the" Garden ’ th^JSSTof his'opportunUiertnd
‘^-‘1af**i°[
lor. ad a message of undying, at Gautama 3 fourfold path to a B,ient|v pouring its stream of si- thought obtainable and can get
love in a mother s lullaby as well Celestial Nowhere; forget that all , ® B 8 «»«*>*» at
__*i.^ ________. ________J:____> - 1 toine-s must have a he^inninv— dereal fire into the great realm
wm^rbufitCTnot foil..* be-'i*pl«nd»f « «««>y «
< auso ^ome church communicants
are hypocrites that all religion is
a humbugjthat because tlie Bible
winks nt incest and rubbery,mur-
der and slave: y, the Book is but
a tissue of todfish falsehoods;
that becau-e Almighty God lias
m '.rh" sirt•«- '•isd<"" •«—-
Messrs Hume and Voltaire, Fan
it in The Galveston Semi-Weekly
D. D. Kilpajrick
Candelaria^ |^xas,
—dkalei«n,-L
General Merchandise
Groceries S61d to Hot
Springs Visitors at
Marfa, Prices.
l; lh‘L,lg.‘-r^T^..n»in.»».7 «.»<urk»«^,.aW ~«««».;F?.™ il" ~~ I
that e’en proud Science sprang -:-nu mey seem use; - J“^ * -7
from the womb of stupid ignor- he eyee of P'V1"* angels,watch- j P *
ance. and stumbled, awkwardly "Kman work out, httle by little, tic market reports
thre»ugh the long ages,the mys-
tery of his life.
IIkaxn.
A Fierce Night Alarm
the oyster with instinct, can He
’.llnJSIS.tL-brU iia, no communioatn »ilh man only by j ‘cmUI*®*™?,'
11 . « 1 . __word of mouth or the engraver s ’ .’v oeiore sue couiu nrmiv
good reason for belief in Ilia ex- bupin? Kxaraine the most beau- P,ant J,er feet upon the eterual
istence that “J ’"M!/ (t‘ 1 tiful woman imaginable with a|,0^°f ^act*
do not come i.ic-t to us w ui • | powerful microscope and you1 I have no word of condemns-
a gram of the New .leiuselan it tupa fpom ,)er x‘jth a disgust t,on for any religious faith, how- .
v e -e folly to believe the soui or Hj|uij,ir t() tha, of Outliver when evep fatuous it may appear to me >« the hoarse, startling cough of
man immortal . the Brob.lingian maid placed that has oast one gleam of «u- a child, suddenly attacked by
.My dear colonel, \our m,*eht> ; j,jrll a9tride the nipple of her nernal glory into the dark vale croup. Often it aroused Lewis .
intellect has n->t yet comprehend 1 |)030rn. Her skin,so fair to the of human life; but I regard with Cbamblin, of Manchester,0-£R. |
ed the pniiosophi r.e.lt''l^|1 ’ j natural eye and velvety to the unspeakable contempt the man R. No. 2j fox their four children
•Oratonea.ly you so.11 n. " j touch, becomes beneaih the mi- of these modern days who decries ^yere kreatly subject to croup,
condor when its shadow falls j oposcope suggestive of the hide all religious progress ami branus Sometimes in severe attacks,’’
upon the highest peak of the An- I f)£ a hairless Mexican dog. Re- as blasphemies those who would he w-roP-, ‘ ‘ we were afraid they a
des, but logically you trrope ; |^iMn ig a beautiful, an enchant-1 take oue step beyond the crude would die. but since we proved R
a nong the pestilential shadows thing if you do but look at it faiths of former days —insists a certs*iti remedy Dr.King a jR
of an intellectual Dismal Swamp, | natural eye, but when that religion is too sacred to be New Discovery is, we have no
ever mistaking shadows for sub- j vou employ the adventitious aid handled by human reason, that fe®r- »' e rely on it for croup
stance. You are frittering away j o£ ^k^ptic’s microscope you mother of which it was born! It a,,d ^or <,ooghs, colds or any
your mkTity intellectual strength j wj]| fjntj flHwa enough. It were were folly to expect a people throat or lung trouble. ’ * So do
with tho idoayncrasies of creeds j (]0uHtful if even our boasted whose wisent men believed this tnousandc of others. 80 msy
and th.i clumsy detail of cults, 1 American government,of which world the center of the unverse Asthma, Hay Fever, La
in-tead of considering the P®.V* | vou are so proud, could stand and the star3 mere ornaments of jr'PP«, Whooping Cough. Hem-
chobgical phenomena of religion suc|, an examination and retain the night, to evolve a perfect re- 2fr™*feV*ty »t- «Wc and
iu its entirety. You mu-t, des- j youP COnfidence. ligiou, or form an intelligent J1,0®* * r*a* ^dtle free. 8oid
ccnd from the realm of philosopy No, my dear colonel, you will 1 conception of the great First ■>’ *he L nion Drug Cfo.
to assume the role of scholastic never banish worship from the'Cause. .. ,...
to dispute with little men anent | world by warring upon nones- The sacred Books of all the 9°u|’child is pale and sickly,
points of doctrine, to wrangle 1aentials. You mny demonstrate centuries are essentially the same E,''ka at the ;nc-e, starts in the
with dogmatists regarding their that every recorded miracle is a —the half-articulate voice of the P and grinds the teeth while
conception of the Deity . j myth—that the founders of the world crying for light, the front- * e*^in^', 18 a 8ur* 8'*fn °t
An ignoramus believes the Bi- 1 various cults were but mortal ic efforts of man trying to learn ',pro8, i*/',’,jaftdy fortbesepsr-
hle because of the miracles, and * men, and the writers rf every whence he came and whither he pwg aTi vfovjtcu^J^E’S.
because of the miracle-* an Inger- 1 *a'-red book but schemit g,»rie ts goes, to lift the veil that shrouds Li. 2.not
soil disbelieves it—and both are : You may make it gross to sense the two eternities—to see and
Let people know that Marfa isj
| on the map, and remember that
I the Marfa Tailor Shop in in Marfa, j
jcusiyf^;
I House: PA
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* ill Orders,l^iUYE
MAR^\'*7i
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PAINTING
AND D>#£oRATING
! Eiacutbd.
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finally blind A cult is simply j that the (Creator has never held know! I gather them together— ^stores health and cheerfulness.
---A • — *nce 2-ar p^r bottle. Sold by the
Inion Drug Co.
mi expression? mors or less i direct communicatian with the the old Testament and the New,
'• nie, of the religious set.timent creature and you have but strip- the K'*ran and the sacred Vedas,
of a people, the poor garment
with which men clothes Infinity.
Would you quarrel with t*oienc.e
ped religion of its tattered vest- the Northern Sagas and the
ments—have not laid the weight Southern Mythologies; I search
of your hand upon the imnreg-jthem through, not to sooff.but to
because it is not yet made per- . nabie citudel,the universal bath- gather, With reverent toil,
nly clears out the worms, hut it
Come to Marfa Mercantile
■on pany for Pioneer and White
* ioga flour. Backed by sixty
eare in the milling business.
City Market.
When yon want
a fine, fat jnicy
steak or tender
roast, phoneyonr
.
orders to
Howard !
and Weatherford
ram Ii II. lIRFi TEX.
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