October Rate Specialties
Low One Way Rates to Pacific Coast:--
These are in effect only until October 10th $30 to California. Oregon,
Washington, and $25 to Utah and portkns of Montana and Idaho. Re
serve your births early.
Tourist Rates South:
The usual winter tourist and homeseekers' rates to southern localities have
been announced. The South is growing in its attractions for northern
people. Ask for some of the attractive literature, descriptive of southern
resorts, hotels and tours.
Through Tourist Sleepers to California via Santa Fe Route:
Commencing November 5th, from Omaha every Tuesday night, at 11:35 p.
m., personally conducted through touiist sleepers will be run to Los An
geles via Denver, then Santa Fe direct line GRAND CANYON ROUTE,
These sleepers may be taken from Omaha oarly Tuesday night, from Lin
coln at midnight, or leaving Denver Wednesday evening at 7:45 p. m.
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Winter Tourist Rates to California . ,
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are daily in effect. Free literatue, "California Excursions," ' : '.'Pacific
Coast Tours, " "Southern Tours" leaflet. ; Have your ticket read "Bur
lington," You will then have the hroadest choice of diverse routes to and
, from the coast. .V
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How to Harvest Six or More
Acres of Corn a Day at Low Cost
THREE men one on an I II C corn
picker, and one each on the two wagons
it keeps busy hauling the corn away,
will pick, husk, clean, and haul to the crib,
all the corn from six to seven acres a day,
depending on conditions. The cost of the
work, as carefully noted by farmers who have
used these machines, is less than half what it
costs to pick corn by hand. For these reasons
you should buy an
I H C Corn Picker
Deering or McCormick
It does away with all uncertainty about get
ting the corn in at the right time. It stops
the worry about harvest help. It saves money, '
time, and labor.
Heavy corn or light, standing, down, or
tangled, all is handled with facility and at a sur
prising speed. The corn, husked and cleaned,
drops in a steady stream from the elevator.
What little is shelled by the husking process
is also delivered clean to the wagon. The
entire crop is saved and the corn all put under
cover for less than the cost of picking alone,
when the work is done by hand.
All points about the construction of I II C
corn pickers will be fully explained by the
I H C local dealer. Now is the time to see
him and arrange for deliveries. He will fur
nish catalogues and full information, or, if you
prefer, write to the address given below.
International Harvester
wncorporaicaj
Council Bluffs
I H C Service Bureau
The purpose of this Hurcau is to furnish, free
of charce to nil. the best Information obtainable
on bettt-r farming. If j l.ave any worthy que,
lion concrning soils, crops, land drainage, irrt
tation. fertilisers, etc., make your (nqtiirlrssnecltic
R. W. CLEMENT, Agent,
General Passenger Agent, Omaha, Neb.
Geo. P. Eastwood, Successor to
John Bauer.
To all old customers, as well
as to all new ones, I ask you to
call and get my prices. I have
the largest and best assorted stock
of Huilders' Hardware; also the
most complete line of Cook Stoves
and Ranges and Hard Coal, Soft
Coal and Wood Heaters ever
shown in Plattsmouth. Also a car
of nails and a car of American
tii'ld fence. '
We buy direct from the factory
and are in a position to make a
belter price than you have ever
had. We solicit your trade.
"'A square deal and prompt at
teiil ion" is my mot to.
C. P. EASTWOOD.
Money to loan on city real
estate on good terms and at
moderate rates. Buy or build a
home on the easy payment plan.
See T. M. Patterson, Secretary
Plattsmouth Loan and Building
Association.
The Journal Want Ads for re
sults. Company of America
la. r
MRS
ROOM
IS RE-ELECTED
Again Chosen President of M. E.
Missionary Coherence.
TO ESTABLISH NEW MISSIONS
Action on Acceptance of Memorial
Home in Nebraska for Aged Minis
ters and Their Wives is Deferred
Until Next Meeting.
Dos Moines, Oct. 21. Mrs. George
O. Robinson of Detroit, who has been
president of the Women's Home Mis
sionary society of the Methodist
church fo four years, was re elected
to that position at the annual business
meeting of the society this morning.
Mrs. Robinson Is one of the best
known women In the Methodist
church. She is a graduate of several
universities and prior to her marriage
was a member of the faculty of Albion
college, Albion, Mich. She made a
gift of $10,000 to the Torto Rico mis
sion work and is a large contributor to
other mission funds.
The missionary societies of the con
ferences of Nebraska and Ohio, which
were merged by the general confer
ence of the M'thodist church in quad
rennial session in Minneapolis last
May, will not meet the requirements
of the merger this year, but continue
as separate conference societies until
the annual mooting next year.
One new mission Is to be established
in Gary, Ind., for the steel workers and
another among the Italians of Cort
land, N. Y. Additional money was
pledged for a mission among" the min
ers of Pittsburg,' Kan., where the nils'
sicn workers have been forced to car
ry guns when they attended church.
The Crowe'l Memorial home nt
Blair, Neb., which was established by
tae Nebraska conferences as a home
for aged ministers and their wives,
was offered free of debt to the na
tional mission society by the board of
trustees. The committee appointed tc
consider the advisability of accepting
this gift and providing for the main
tenance of the Institution reported
that it had decided to defer action un
til the next annual meeting of the na
tional society. The women represent
'ng the Nebraska conferences declared
that since the merger of the confer
ences of their state by order of the
general conference of the church they
were unable to adjust their conference
organizations to meet all of the de
mands. Labor Federation Busy. -
A session of the executive board ol
the Iowa Federation of Labor was held
here nnd the board will probably re
main here for several days because
of the seriouKness of the labor situa
tion One of the principal matters
considered nt this meeting was, how to
carry on the fight for a workmen's
compensation law that will meet the
desires of the laboring men of the
state- It has come to the attention
of the federation that the Iowa Manu
facturors' association has changed
front In regard to the legislation and
is planning to oppose all laws of the
kind suggested in the report of the
commission which recently lnvestigat
ed the matter. The labor leaders ac
cuse the manufacturers of betraying
them.
TROUBLE OVER COLLEGES
Alumni to Carry War on Removal Or
der to Legislature.
Des Moines, Oct. 21. The latest
phase of the tight on the part of the
college men nt the three state educa
tional institutions to hold their Jobs
and prevent the educational board
from effecting the consolidation of de
partments is to have Roger Leavltt
of Cedar Falls, a member of the board,
who alone voted against the changes
proposed, threaten to go into court to
prevenc the changes being made, and
to make a plea to the board for recon
clderation. Mr. Leavltt makes the ac
cusaHon against his associates on the
educatlonnl hoard that as a matter ol
fact they did not fairly Investigate the
matter.
At th'j same time the opponents of
the change have enlisted Rome of the
btate candidates to get the matter into
politics if possible before the election
The alumni associations of the vnri
ous colleges are bring enlisted in the
fight and will take a hand in trying
to force tho legislature to back up the
college men and overrule the decision
of tho board in this matter.
Big Fine Levied for Lifting Lid.
Charles City, la., Oct. 21. Judge J
J. Clark fined Miller Ellis $375 and
costs, in all amounting to over $100
for the Illegal sale of liquor. Ellis
entered a plea of guilty. He paid his
fine. Roy Swim came all the way
from Mlnot, N. D., to enter a plea of
guilty of running n gambling house
Ho wan fined $f(0.r.0.
Find Eody In River.
Dubuque, la., Ort. 21. The body of
James Murphy, aged forty-five, was
found in the Mississippi river below
Cattish creek. The deceased was em
ployed in a quarry south of town, dis
appearing fen days ago.
lowan Hit by Train.
Dubuque. la., Oct. 21. A man giving
his name a O'l-eary, and saying hi
brother i deputy sheriff at Muscatine,
was hit by m llllnolii Central train
hero am! probably fatally Injured.
BISHOP-APOSTLES
COSTLY MISTAKE
Primary Cause cl Doctrinal Er
rors ol the Past.
UNTRMIMSELED BIBLE STUDY,
Pastor Russell Says That Is the Proper
Basis For Harmony and Union of All
Followers of Christ Jesus Chose the
Twelve, and In a Message to the
Church Made It Known That There
Were Never to Be Any More, Nor
Any Less The Succetsor to Judas.
St. Louis. Octo
ber 'JO. We report
one of Pastor Rus
sell's discourse:'
here today from
the text. "Have
not 1 chosen you
Twelve?" (John vl.
TO.i lie i;uid:-
As Christians we
have long lament
ed our differences
and wondered at
their n urn her As
we have beeu get
3 . w
v4
ting rid one after another of the doctri
nal errors of t ho pant, and see their fool
ishness, and learn that they are not
supported by liilile testimony, we won
der how they originally got a foothold in
Christian faith Hutu glance backward
is sulliclent to explain t tie situation.
Durlug the ministry of our Lord and
the Apostles the faith of the Church
was kept pure, but as Jesus prophesied
In the parable of The Wheat and Tares,
all this changed us soon as the Apos
tles fell asleep. lie says. "While men
slept, the enemy came and sowed
tares" amongst the wheat. The tares
of error sown by Satau shortly after
the death of the Apostles have yielded
an abundant crop and well-nigh
choked out the good seed of the King
dom Christ's saiutly followers. Tho
nominal wheat-Held might almost be
called a tare-Held, so greatly do the
tares predominate.
But lu the Harvest, the end of this
Age. the dawning of the New Age of
Messiah's Kingdom, the Lord will fa
vor such conditions as will effect a thor
ough separation between the "wheat"
and th "tares." He will gather Ills
wheat Into the garner. All imitation
Christ In ns will, by the fiery trouble"
of that day. be reduced to the ranks
of the world in general.
Judas Place Improperly Filled.
Whilst the eleven Apostles were
waiting as directed for the Pentecostal
blessing, they, contrary to direction,
busied themselves by appointing a sue
cessor to Judas. They chose two men.
and of the two selected one by lot
and then supposed that they had made
an apostle. Without reproving them
God Ignored their choice: thenceforth
we hear no more of Matthias. In His
own time God brought forth the sue
cessor of Judas, and we all recognize
at once St. Paul, of whom it Is written
that he was "not one whit behind the
chiefest of the Apostles'" and that he
had visions and revelations more titan
they all.
St. Paul's writings constitute the
major portion of the New Testament,
and are Invaluable gifts of God to His
people. There never were to be more
apostles than these Twelve. Jesus de
clnres that He chose The Twelve.
Again He declares that God gave them
to Him an4 that He lost uone of them
save Judifs. whose disloyalty had al
ready been foretold.
When Jesus prayed for these He dif
ferentiated them from Ills other fol
lowers, saying. "Neither pray 1 for
these alone, but for all those nlso who
shall believe on Me through their
word." Their words are Ills words.
They have been Ills mouthpieces to the
Church. Of these Twelve, and of none
others. He declares. "Whatsoever
things ye ahull bind on earth shall le
bound la Heaven." and whatsoever
things ye slinll declare loosed all shall
know are loosed and not binding In
the sight of Heaven. So carefully did
the Lord intend to supervise these In
their utternuces. that their words
would be Infallible: and He wished all
of His followers to know this.
Furthermore, after our Lord had as
cended to glory. He sent a message to
the Church through St. John the Reve
lator. In that message He pictured
the Twelve Apostles as a crown of
twelve stars, upon the bead of the
Woman, the Church. Again, in the
symbolical picture of the New Jerusa
lem, which represents the Church In
glory beyond the veil. He pictures the
Twelve Apostles as the twelve founda
tlon stones. There never were to be
any more, nor any less. From this
standpoint we see that we are not to
expect an additional revelation of any
kind. God's people are not to trust ei
ther in their own speculations and
mental gymnastics, or In visions and
dreams; for. as Sf. Paul declares. "If
nny mnn preach nny other Gospel than
that which we have preached, let him
be accursed." (Galutlans I. 8. II.) So.
too, he declares. "The Word of His
grace Is able to build you up." and to
"make you wise unto salvation"
Again he said. "The Word of God Is
sufficient, that the man of God may
be thoroughly furnished." (Acts tx.
3'.'; II Timothy lit. 15-17.1 We see.
then, that the Church needed no more
than the Twelve Apostles, nor nn,
further revelation of any kind than
those given to her through this In
spired apotstlcshlp. Hut that there
would be some who iut;nkenl.v would
claim to be ii'Mles. die Uuil .I-muh
clearly Indicated, declaring that there
would le false ttNstles. "who say th:it
they are apostles and are uot."-Reve-latlou
II. Z
The First Pseudo-Apostles.
When we speak of pseudo-aost!es
false apostles we should not In un
derstood as cuargiug intentions fraud
Rather, sympathetically, let us sup
pose that the early bishops, in accept
ing the title of apostles and In claim
ing for themseves succession to the
Apostolic office, were honestly deluded,
as much as were the people who thus
ecknowedged them. Let us remem
ber, further, that the matter grew
gradually. Just as titles and dignities
grow at this day.
Let us remember that the early
Christians were not generally educat
edthat remarkably few people in old
en times were able to read. Indeed
general ability to read belongs only to
our generation, to those living in this
our wonderful day the dawning of the
New Era of Messiah's Kingdom. Lei
us remember also that at that time
books were very scarce, because very
expensive. The Jews did. indeed, en
deavor to have a copy of the Holy
Scriptures lu each synagogue, there to
be read once a week. In portions, from
large and costly scrolls.
Christians, expelled from the syna
gogue, had no longer the opportunity
of the Jews for studying the Old Testa
ment Scriptures. And the New Testa
ment, written In a fragmentary man
ner. was costly also, and not brought
together as a collection for n long time
after the death of the Apostles. The
Sacred writings soon became relics,
remembrances of the dead Apostles
and of Jesus, worshipped by all. but
not studied, even by those who were
able to read. Their value for instruc
tion was considered at an end, because
the theory In the meantime had sprung
up that the living bishops were the rep
resentatives of the Apostolic office and
inspirations. Tho people, therefore,
unable to read, asked not. What say
the Apostles? but received their the
ologlcnl instructions from the bishops,
whom they believed to be the living
Apostles.
When we reflect that very few min
isters in oue city, eveu of one denom
ination, are today fully agreed as re
spects Divine Truth, we must not be
surprised that during the two centuries
following the death of the Apostles
these supposed "successors" got into
all kinds of fnlso doctrine, each lend
ing a company of believers and hold
ing the pre-eiiiiueuce of his own views,
few thinking to measure their presen
tations by those of The Twelve. Divine
ly appointed.
"Apostolio Councils'' Next
The doctrinal strife between the bish
ops grew. Gradually the people of
God. about A. D. 250. began to be
separated into two classes the clergy
and the laity. The bishops. Instead
of being chosen by the vote of the
people, publicly claimed the Divine
right, us the superiors in the Church,
to ordain for them their clerical teach
ers. The clergy, under the lead of the
bishops as supposed successors to the
Apostles, lorded it over God's heritage.
Later, in the Sixth century, the Itish
op of Rome began to be considered su
perior to all other bishops, und finally
was declared to be the chief father, or
papa, or Pope.
About the Fourth Century creed -making
began. The Nlcene Creed, the Atli
auaslau Creed and the Apostles' Creed,
nil were formulated In the Fourth Cen
tury. It was discovered that more than
a thousand bishops psuedo-n post les
were teaching very contrary doctrines
on many subjects. The Emperor Con
stautlue accepted Christianity and was
perplexed by the variety of teaching,
lie convened tho "Apostolic Council"
of Nice. Hut although he provided ex
pense money for all bishops attending,
only about one-third obeyed the com
mand. These bishops disputed and wran
gled over differences for days and
weeks and months. Finally they reach
ed a conclusion satisfactory to the em
peror. It was promulgated with gov
ernmental sanction and with the dec
laration that nny persons or teachings
to the contrary were to be expelled
Thus a small minority of men who mis
takenly thought themselves Inspired,
under the leading of an Emperor who
had not even been baptized, set up a
theological standard which since has
served well to felter"lglons thought
in many, und to miu.e others believe
that there Is nothing in religion but
superstition.
Creed-making along these lines pro
gressed for twelve hundred years,
while the lilble was neglected. It was
not even thought necessary for Instruc
tion in theological semlnnrles. Luther,
then a devout Catholic, bad taught and
preached for years without ever see
ing a Bible. The explanation is that
the bishops, esteemed to be living apos
tles in full authority, were thought to
have more up-to-date knowledgo than
the original Twelve, and In Apostolic
Councils bnd formulated creeds which
they declared were alone necessary to
be believed. Can we wonder that In
all those tlfteen centuries the real nug
gets of Truth which had been deliv
ered by Jesus and tho Apostles, and the
Prophets became sadly Incrusted with
human tradition, superstition, misun
derstanding, etc.?
Groping For the Light.
Our Catholic friends do eiot agree
that u great Reformation movement
started In the Sixteenth Century. None
of us will claim that Luther nud his
friends were Infallible, and that In one
step they passed from the confusion
of Fifteen Centuries Into the full blay.e
of religious knowledge. All. however.
Catholics and Protestants, can surely
agree that some kind of creed Impetus
to righteousness en me to the Protestant
movement of the Sii-ciit'i Century.
We have t lie proof n it nil about us.
No longer are Protestants ami Oith
ollcs warring with em li ntlinr, tmrnlng
each other at the stake, etc. Each
may feel free to Investigate for him
self and to accept or reject such doc
trines and creeds as he may please.
All true Christian eople deplore the
division of Christ's followers ' ito nu
merous sects Nevertheless we may
surely feel a great sympathy for all
of them when we remember that each
separate sect represents an additional
effort on the part of honest minds to
grope out of darkuess toward the light.
All who are awake are conscious that
some terrible nightmare of error rested
upou Christendom for long, long cen
turies. The Torch of Civilization.
Well has the Rible been cnlled the
Torch of Civilization and Progress.
The Bible, not men. was the great He','
former and : leader Into civilization. i
When the' Rible was placed In the
hands of t lie people, they began to s?e
that God's Message came from Jesus,
and the Apostles, and. the Prophets of
old. and that clcrlcism and sacerdotal
functions were man-nnule. A desire to
know what the Bible teaches became
more and more prevalent. The 'first
effort of the clerics was to tell : the
masses that the priesthood had the Bi
ble and would read It In their hearing
but it was read lu Latin, to those who
could io understand Latin.
Gradually the desire sprang up, for
the Bible In the English language. Dr.
Tyndale was amongst the first to' rec
ognize the need and to supply it to the
British. Later on Lufher. with assist
ants, supplied the Germans. Hut not
many were able to read. A partisan
spirit arose. Seeing that the Bible
was popular, all acclaimed it as the
Divine Revelation. But each party ,
condemned the translation made by the
other, when In renlity there was uo
particular difference between them. It.,
was all the bishops could do to keep'
the people from studying God's Word
themselves and to make lliem satisfied
with the presentations already given
them by their teachers. '
Therefore the Bishop of London
bought up a lot of Tyndale's Testa-,
incnts and burned them In public. But
more were printed and the demand In
creased. People hungered for God's
Word and felt suspicious of the creeds,
as well they might. Then came the
Catholic Bible In the English language,
and later, our Common Version English
Bible, and many others. Still the claim
is made that Protestunts should not
read the Catholic Bible, and that Cath
olics should not read the Protestant
Bible, when In reality, the two are
practically the same good translations.
It would appear that there are niQny
religious teachers of all denominations
who outwardly extol the Bible for
popularity's sake, but who in reality.
Inwardly wish the people would uever
read it. for they realize that the Bible
Is the greatest foe In the world to eccle
siastical hypocrisies and superstitions.
Back to the Bible, Says Popel
The present Pope with a clear vision
beholds the drifting of our day away
from all faith and religion. .Viewing i
the attitude of the Protestant colleges. ,
universities and theological seminaries,
the Pope realized that nearly all the.
educated young men of Protestunt
lands are being taught Higher Critic
ism, which Is but the iollte modern
name for infidelity. He perceived that
Protestantism, which originally boast
ed of Its fidelity to the Bible, and pro
tested against the acceptance of the
teachings of the bishops as Instead of
the Divine Word, has cut loose from
the Bible as an inspired authority and
Is drifting upon the rocks of Higher
Criticism, rationalism, atheism.
The Pope then bethought him of the
Catholic colleges, and found the same
Higher Criticism Intruding Itself
there. He perceived that this general
trend away from Ood has nlready
crushed nil religion In ninety-six per
cent, of the French, and In ninety per
cent, of the Germans. The nwfulness
of this situation greatly Impressed the
holy father. He realized that our In
crease of educatlou and decrease In
religious faith must speedily spell an
archy. At the risk of condemnation
from both Catholics and Protestants
as narrow-minded nnd bigoted, the
Pope Instituted heroic measures. He
gave orders that all Roman Catholic
ecclesiastics and tenchers must lie ex
amined as to their faith, and must
solemnly swear to It. and tbut all
hooks ulong the lines of Higher Crit
icism should lie banned.
Pope Plus X took another bold, cour
ageous step. The Pope perceiving
that the masses would no longer rec
ognize the Bishops as Divine authori
ty as successors to the Apostles, the
Papal bull directed the Catholic
masses to no longer look to the sue- '
cessors of the Apostles for Instruction,
but to the Bible Itself. He urged upon
the Bishops that Catholics everywhere
be encouraged to read the Bible. This
Is a move In the right direction. If
Catholics should get to reading the
Bible (I enn? not whether they use the
Catholic Version or the Protestant
Version I use bothi. Protestants may
lie shamed Into real Bible study. In
stead o the sham make-believe so
much practised. May we not. then,
hope that all true Christians. Catholic
and Protestant, of every shsde. might
through the honest study of the one
great Book of authority, come bnck to
the "one Ixrd. one Faith, one Bap
tism." and tho one "Church of the Liv
ing God." whose names "are wrltteu
In Heaven?" Toward this end let us
I lalmr. Ft us each be students of the
I IHK1.. ....1 I.. ... . . . . .
urn", mm H-i us hp nonesr nun loyal,
not handling the Word of God deceit
fully. So shall we have the blessing
for which Jesus prayed: "Sanctify
them through Thy Truth: Thy WnrtS
Is Truth."
