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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. ' ' . - ' v '. . V Winter Tourist Rates to California . , ' r - . 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 W. L. WAKELY, mm STATEMENT Of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc., of THE PLATTSMOUTH JOURNAL Kditor Managing- Editor. .. Business Manaper.. Publisher Owner Published Dailv .M.A. Hates .11. A. Bates .It. A. Hates . R. A. Hates . R. A. Hates and Semi- Weekly. Average number uf copies of the Daily publication each issue, sold or dis tributed through the mails or otherwise to subscrib ers, during the six months preceding the date of this statement Semi-Weekly publication. . . 1 725 515 Signed: R. A. HATES. Sworn to and subscribed before me this l:th day of October, 1912. TIIOM. WALLING, Notary Public. R. O. Perry and wife of Eight Mile drove drove in Saturday and looked after some matters of business. 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."