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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1901)
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As a child I was reared in orthodoxy of the severest type. If not in words I was informed by example that reason was the supreme attribute in science and mathematics , but in the domain of religion , never ! It was a sin to doubt any word of the Bible. I must receive it whether I could or not as a direct verbal message from Sinai 1 To doubt any ambassador who expounded that truth , was a thing to be avoided. As I now look back upon some of the illum inated ( ? ) Beers who cast radiance upon my earlier years , the wonder is that untutored childhood could haye over come Safely through such glowing efful gence ! Many times my younger brother Richard , my life-long , truest and best friend the idol of my heart when a little boy has fallen asleep in my arms , both of us shuddering at the vivid de scription by some loud mouthed evan gelist of the lake of fire awaiting all who did not appreciate the picture. Think of two orphan children , sensitive and delicate , frightened by such infamy and barbaric cruelty. Surely there must be another God some good God who took away our mother. Deai Dick , who has recently passed through what we call death , how thankful I am that you learned to know a more human God , and that later your poetic temper ament responded to the only true God , eternal goodness. On one occasion we became much concerned about the un pardonable sin , and while neither of us could clearly define it ( neither could any preacher ) still we were afraid we hoc committed it and it must be of al things the most fearful as the preacher had wept so copiously about it on the previous Sabbath. At another time we became much distressed about the subject of baptism and felt that if immersion instead of sprinkling was proof against the wrath to come , Heaven knows we prefer the wat ery ordeal. But the bondage of religious superstition gave away as the manacles of all ignorance will some day fall by eason of their own weight in the dust Nothing but wilfully closing the av enues of the soul can keep out the pene- irating rays of the San. of Righteous ness. The dawning of Eternal Morn ing awaits every earnest seeker after Jight. Darkness slowly disperses and new truth is discovered each day. The wise man treads the path of religion as sensibly as he follows any other science , inding out the unknown. Each individ ual must work out its own salvation with fear and trembling. Each soul in its long march towards perfection must solve for itself the oft propounded question , "Whence came I , for what real purpose am I here , and whither am I going ? " The soul will stand alone naked before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. All dogmas and creeds and theologies will appear then in their true light , either as shams or as unnecessary vehicles to impede the soul's progress. By meditation , thereby putting myself in touch with Supreme Intelligence , I answer my own prayers ; I find out the divinity latent or germinal in every man and have all faith in growth. I no longer pray to any per sonal God , for to attribute sex to God I invest Him with personality , thereby limiting His power. Even the dear term , Our Father , has its limitations. But God is a Principle Law -Harmony Supreme Intelligence The All. If God is the All there can be nothing supernatural , for "super" implies over , above , beyond. And God is no more over , above and beyond than He is through , iu and beyond. Therefore there can be no miracle. For whatever takes place either before the senses , or through occult forces is somewhere in the vast domain of nature and is amen able to natural law. ' We can all even in the moments pf our supreme adora tion worship that God through whom we live and move and have our being. We can all share the common experi ence of the Great Apostle , "That neithei life nor death , nor principalities uoi powers , nor thiugs present nor things to come , nor height nor depth , shall be able to separate us from the love of God. " MRS. O. R. GLOVEU. Omaha , Neb. , Sept. 10 , 1901. LET US MAKE MAN. The caption of this is taken from the first chapter of Genesis. If we inter pret it literally , we find it opposed to well-known facts. An individual may have cosmic consciousness , and know o : events at a distance , or of events past or future , but if some of the faculties o : his mind are dormant , he canuot under stand what he perceives , nor impart it intelligibly to others. Moses fails to make himself understood. I do not think he had a very clear understanding of what he wrote. However , he has set the first figures. By the aid of scientific research , we may complete the solution of the problem. This is what was intended for us to do. The story of the creation is an alle gory. The Government of the Universe consists of more than one Intelligence , each with its own special function. There are gradual changes of form. Mature always remains. There was no beginning further than the close of one event is the beginning of the next. God did not make inau. The New Testa ment informs us that Adam was the Son of God. Hence , we are God's off spring. The New Testament teaches us to say , "Our Father. " The Supreme Intelli gence is the Father of all. It has been proven beyond a reasona ble doubt that man has inhabited the earth for thousands of centuries. There is a Life in nature which unfolds forms of existence suitable to the climate and other vicissitudes. The furred animals are in the cold regions. Aquatic ani mals are in the water. They are not there from choice. The innate life de veloped these suitable forms. The dark- colored people are in the regions of cli matic extremes. Nature endowed them with color and other qualities suitable " to the condition. In the marshes there are mosquitos. Drain the marshes and the mesquites disappear. Whence did they come ? Whither did they go ? If the conditions suitable for man were to cease , he would by his own superior faculties make suitable conditions. But if the conditions should disappear in spite of all his efforts , man also would disappear , and Life would unfold other forms suitable to the other conditions. Solomon says , " There is nothing new under the sun. " Life does not disclose any new forms. Life has hitherto de veloped forms for all possible conditions having existed to infinity in the past. The Bible should be revised and made to correspond to God's word written in the rocksthe treesthe stars. As it isit is calculated to foster unbelief. However , unbelief has its part in the development of man. It leads men to sift what they find , to obtain the pure white flour of truth , on which the soul subsists. JOSEPH MAKINSON. Holdrege , Neb. , Sept. 15,1901. The Burlington railroad has just placed an order for 150,000 Japanese fans to help cool its patrons next sum mer. While the heat of 1901 was still turned on , General Passenger Agent Francis sat up nights building sentences that would read well in the heat of 1902 , and incidentally start the reader for some resort "best reached , " et cetera. The advertising matter decided upon , metal-base electrotypes are made in Omaha , and shipped to Japan. There the ads prepared in Omaha are printed on Japanese fan paper , which is later pasted on strips of bamboo , shaped in the form of fans. By the time the fans arrive in this country , another summer has rolled around , and the demand for the familiar Burlington fan has again commenced. The price of the fans de livered in Omaha , Chicago and St. Louis , is about a cent and a half apiece.
