T he G ate C ity J ournal
vol .
xxrv.
NO. 1 .
NYSSA,
DEBATE ON INSPIRATION
OF BIBLE GROWS WARM
OREGON,
F R ID A Y ,
F E B R U A R Y 12, 1*26.
«1.5« P E R Y E A R
MALHEUR COUNTY TO COUNTY AGENT’S OFFICE WILL
HAVE NEW GRAN6ES CONTINUE IN MALHEUR COUNTY
there is no error o f any kind or de
gree fo r that is what the words
I mean.
Mr. Chapman admits that none of
the original manuscripts is extant
today. What we have are copies, no-
A t the regular monthly meeting to state that it shall be the aim to
! body knows how many times remov-
ed from the original.
These copies BROGAN A N D A N N E X TO H A V E o f the county court, on Wednesday, continue the work along the line*
monies from inspection fees were j established by Mr. Breithaupt
aa
had of course to be translated into
F A R M E R ’S O R G A N IZ A T IO N
certified over to the extension serv- much as possible. The inspection o f
| English to give us the K ing James
IN N E A R F U T U R E .
ice o f the Oregon Agricultural col- nursery stock, quarantine and grade
Antiquity, British Museum, the bible, and from these same copies
, lege, for the
continuance
o f the certification will be administered
have been produced a large number
Work is practically completed fo r | county .agent's office.
The service through this office as befori. Un-
T H A T ACCOUNT, reject the whole o f other translations, all different in
two more new granges in Malheur wag x
madp
posgible by and der the new arrangement there w ill
history as spurious; would he be important respects, yet each claim
justified in so doing?
Would it not ing to be a true translation o f the county, one in the Annex and R iv e r : with t , COOp«ration o f the county be no assistant county agent except
largely
through public during the shipping season when ad
be reasonable to tell him that the most ancient texts in existence to View districts across from W eiser court ^
and the other at Brogan. The for-1 subscr)p*,on Bu8inP88 men 0f Nyssa, ditional help w ill be necessary to
name o f Havre-Marat had been in day.
mer is to be completed on the 11th Val(, a„ d 0ntario generougly gup. take care o f inspection.
How then can Mr. Chapman know
serted, not by the original author
i and the other on the 10th o f Febru-; purted the movem. n.
According to
“ Our first contact w ill be a squir
of the history, but by a subsequent that our King James is an inerrant
ary.
W. R. Gekeler, State Deputy, A H chegteri who circuiated a
rel poisoning campaign.
We have
translation?
The
King
James
trans
edition o f it; and to refer him, for a
Boise, Idaho, Feb. 1, 1926. proof o f the
genuineness
of the lators made no claim to infallibil- has been working on the gran ges, tition hartt V ale easily reached its a limited supply of poison on hand
and has the membership practically quota
t
and are making arrangements to se
Gate City Journal:
W hy does Mr. Chapman make
book, to the testimony of the whole I ity.
all signed up and the prospects are!
,n
{ m
ingpection fee8 re. cure more.
The present
weather
I it for them now?
In the 2nd paragraph q ! your edi French people or nation?
for two live organizations.
S evera l, ceived f „ ra the countyi the county conditions indicate that this work
torial under ‘‘Facts Vs A S SU M P
The fact is that our Bible does
This suppsition so obviously ap
other prominent
speakers w ill be ag|fnrt o ifl, e w i„ take eare o f both will begin earlier than usual.
T IO N ” , issue o f January 1st, you plies to the J O U R N A L ’S difficulty contain errors, many o f them. Too
present fo r the meetings as well as j f e d e r a l ^
c o g n t y in g p e o t io n w o r k .
“ Coming to you as a stranger I
say “ Opposed to this A S SU M PTIO N that I cannot but recommend it to many self opinionated scribes have
at the meeting o f Boulevard Grange
w L shovP, Npw AgPnt
would appreciate your getting in
had
a
hand
in
preserving
it
for
is the fact that Biblical research has its impartial attention.
BUT, if
at Ontario on the 12th o f February
w L. ¿¡hovel, the new county a g - ' touch with the office at your first
proved by the books themselves that this solution does
not please the thousands o f years for anyone to
team will be j ricultural agent, comes to M alheur! opportunity.
Before we can assist
Moses could not be their author. We Journal, I desire that it prove the be sure it is exactly the same as it when a special drill
in instructing a j county well recommenedd. He is al-1 you in your problems we must get
w ill give but two illustrations out of D A N mentioned in Genesis was the was three thousand years ago, or present to assist
large class of new members.
I rPady established at the former of- acquainted with each other and with
many to show that this is so.”
same town as the D A N mentioned even one thousand.
I he grange is the most active or- f j cp ¡n Qatario.
j n a recent letter ¡th e conditions under which we are
Fq£ centuries it was the habit of
I am going to take up the first in Judges; I desire, further, to have
ganization in Oregon
in rural de o f introduction to county farmers, I working. As soon as possible I ex
one in this article; and if I can keep it proved that the D A N mentioned monkish scribes to change the scrip
velopment and a large number of Mr. Shovel says:
pect to visit the different communi
it short enough, without expense to in Genesis was the name o f a town tural texts to suit their own prej
prominent farmers
in the county
“ Through the combined efforts ol ties, arrange fo r meetings with the
truth, w lil take up the other ‘illus and N O T o f a river.
It is merely udices. To delete a passage here or
are taking hold o f the work with a number o f farmers and business various committees and get into ac
tration’ also, in the hope o f clear said, “ Abram pursued them, the en add another there was one o f their
the idea o f rushing Malheur coun men o f the county, the County Court tual contact with the agriculture o f
Even the King
ing up your two illustrations to the emies of Lot, to D A N .” Now,- a ri favorite diversions.
ty to the front in the work.
In the mean time do
and the Farm Bureau organization the county.
discomfort * f the ‘fact’ you assert ver was full as likely to stop a pur James translators were influenced
arangements have been made to con not forget that this is your office
vs the “ Assumption.”
suit, as was a town. Lot, we know, by that haughty monarch to prepare
Captain William
Hogbin,
Civil tinue the work of
this office the and that the Extension Department
You cite Genesis 14 in which the was settled in the plain o f Jordan; a text not exactly in keeping with
W ar veteran and one of a fam ily o f coming
year.
The office is now is here to serve you to the best of
account o f A B R A M pursuing the and JO RD AN , we know was compos the original, when dealing with the
twenty-one children, was driven out open and we are anxious to serve its ability, and that getting acquaint
kings unto Dan, is given, and say, ed of the united streams of two riv divine right of kings.
o f Dubuque, Iowa, in 1877 because
ed is the firs t move toward a suc
you as in the past.
A monkish scribe in the dark ages
“ According to Bible chronology the ers called JOR and DAN .
he talked against liquor.
"F o r your information permit me cessful year’s work.”
city o f Dan was called Laish until
So much for the Journal’s IL L U S probably thought it proper enough
its capture by the Danites 331 years T R A T IO N No. I.
“ To show that to change the words a little in or at least will require no proof as he
after the death of Moses,” conclud this is so;” I submit that it rather der to uphold his own ideas of what could no doubt produce 500 examples
the Bible should say, and in this himself, and
ing with "Anyone
writing o f the verifies ‘TH E A S S U M P T IO N .”
for Mr. Chapman’s
city before that time would have re
The last edition o f the Journal connection we might say that Mr. sake, one citation should be s u ffi
ferred to it as Laish.”
came to my hand today containing Chapman himself seems not averse cient at this time. I f my surmise is
I observe that The Two Illustra most o f my letter of the 20th ult to adding a few phrases when the correct as to the sect with which Mr. |
tions are those o f Thomas Paine in imo (w ith assurance that the rest case seems to demand it. Take for Chapman is affiliated, he sets great i
his "A g e of Reason,” indeed, am per will appear this week) cut short, instance his explanation of the two store by the text in Rev. 20. 5: T H E i
Portland.— Request that the state
suaded that the Journal is actuated because o f scarcity of type, the Ed contradictory accounts o f the death REST OF T H E D E AD L IV E D N O T :
From the Malheur Enterprise.
game commission reimburse him for
by the same reasoning and spirit of itor says; but this might have been of Judas. Matthew says Judas hang A G A IN U N T IL
TH E TH O U SA N D '
On Saturday night our little city «18(H) alleged damages done to hia
that work, so hopelessly lamented prevented had the letter not, ap ed himself, Luke says he fe ll down Y E A R S SHOULD
BE F IN IS H E D . was saddened by the sudden death corn i crop during the last two years
Mr. Chapman says This entire text
upon a dying bed. Apropos of the parently, for the convenience o f the and was killed.
is spurious, and
o f Mrs. H. Lee Noe. Although she by Chinese pheasants was contained
status o f this case, I have thought case, necessitated almost three col both statements are true because does not appear in the Vatican ms.
had been ill a week, her condition in a letter from Trent Johnson of
f i t to make this remark, with a view umns of PR E FAC E , by the Editor. when Iscariot swung himself up the
Now fo r ye editor: This text, as was not considered critical, so the Vale, sent to the secretary q f stats
o f suggesting to the Journal a £pn» 4 am persuaded, somewhat, that it rope broke and he fe ll down over well as all additions, elisions, mis
news came with a distinct shock to1 and forwaiMed to the game com
W ell, we are glad to translations and apparent contradic
sidération
o f great
importance— occasioned more than laughter.
1 a precipice.
The sum
everyone.
It seems
that Friday mission here yesterday.
know
just
how
it
happened,
but
how
whether it has examined, calmly, am obliged, by the character, or
tions should make no difference to | m w i m n p ; o n ® o u a x v t b u «• » v » » | / « r o
morning she suffered a relapse and lost is about half his normal income
o f the did Mr. Chapman find out about it? us, Mr. Ed.tor— unless we are go.ng I at „ 0,clock Saturday night drif ted
and according to the
best of its rather manifest tendency
for two years, Johnson’s letter said.
The bible writers didn’t say any to take the preacher’s words for it i • .
ability, the arguments by which the Journal to dismiss “ as untruths all
. __ . sleep.
.
-re.. end came
. into eternal
The
Johnson took the stand that since
thing
about
the
rope
breaking.
And
truth o f revealed religion may, in accounts not found by it in infidel
that the Bible was intended to con -, p p a c e f u l ,
a n d t h e r g w a s „ „ g t r U g . the state protected these birdB and
we
guess
that
they
knew
as
much
the judgment o f learned and impar records, dictionaries, and writings,
vert the world That it has not done
to mark the eloge o f her gent,„, prohibited their shooting, financial
tial men, be established?
You will to be otherwise alright” ; to accept about it as anyone.
this is the best proof that such was L , fu, chrjgtian ,ife
responsibility for loss due to their
Again in John 3:13 we read, “ No not its purpose ( i f it is of Divine
allow, that thousands o f these, in no answers to its questions; to rely
Dpath Unpxpprtpd
depredations was
up to the game
man
hath
ascended
up
to
heaven
but
all ages, have embraced revealed upon the infirm ity o f recollection
origin), nor would two-thirds of it
For th#
two yearg ghe had commission.
He also requested a
he
that
came
down
from
heaven.”
therein for
advantage; I
religion as true.
Whether
these hoping
have been hidden In symbols, Para-|bpen gubjpct
to pprioda
of ^
special dispensation to kill the birds.
suggest to any H e rf Mr. Chapman, being evidently bles and dark sayingf, had that been ! heaUh but
men have all been in an error, in- would, therefore,
on
Friday
o
f
last
week
E. F. Averill, state game warden,
4«
A ii i k / v » '«
» K S A t/ w in
”
Author’s
purpose.
I I C f inspired,
veloped in the darkness o f ignorance, who may be following these articles at a loss to furnish a reasonable ■ its
was afflicted with a very different said yesterday that the commission
explanation
again
resorts
to
the
old
its purpose was intentionally hidden
shackled by the chains o f supersti or letters and editorials, that you
malady.
It began with very pain had no authority to reimburse such
tion, whilst you and a few others preserve each copy o f the Journal and tried if not true method o f the from all but a few who would be fu l eruptions in the ears and com losses and that Johnson could only
have enjoyed light and liberty, is for reference, as I may have occas medieval monks and changes the un imbued with faith akin to Mr. Chap plications developed meningitis. Sev get satisfaction by means o f a spe-
T o all others the Bible is
a question I submit to the decision ion, in order that our letters may es changeable word by making it read, man’s.
eral doctors were called and it seem- cil act o f the legislature . Investi
cape the latest charge o f the Jour “ N o man hath ascended up to heav filled with stumbling
blocks and j ^ that on Tbllrsdav ghe improVed gation by wardens had determined
o f your readers.
I f you have made the best exam nal, of repetition and doubling charg en to become acquainted with the rocks o f offense, and no attempt » gomewhat.
w ith the rPiapse F ri. that a great part o f Mr. Johnson’s
things in heaven and come down to made therein to square its state
ination you can, and yet reject re ed against the Bible.
day morning she drifted into ‘ a co damages had been caused by crows,
I conclude this with a statement reveal them, save the Son of Man.” ments with science, “ so called.” It
vealed religion as an imposture, I
ma, and never regained conscious which are not protected, Mr. A verill
pray that God may pardon what I touching the matter of “ prejudice,” This rank interpolation is presumed is only the misguided preacher who ness.
said.
So when, and
esteem your error.
Thomas Paine, religionist,” etc., employed by the to strengthen the faith of those who attempts the latter.
Steps will be taken by the com
Belovpd Pioneer
believe
the
King
James
version
to
Journal,
with
the
characteristic
so-
if
ever,
Mr.
Chapman
awakens
to
whom the Journal evidently quotes
to remove the
The events o f the life o f Della mission, however,
the fact that the Bible does not have Noe may be stated in a few words, pheasant menace to crops in Malheur
and accepts, was the foremost ex phisry common and so useful to in be both immutable and inerrant.
Thus it has been throughout the to be "scientific” nor historically
ponent and champion o f infidelity fidelity, that the writer of this let
The commission will set
but the story o f the influence o f her county.
Blind leaders o f the blind, correct, the editor w ill lose his cor
last ages.
in the last century, and wrote his ter was, until ten years ago
gentle, kindly life and the remem a number o f pigeon net-traps in the
probably
obsessed
with
the
idea
that
respondent.
And though I would brance o f her as a true w ife and de region in the near future, Mr. A v
book “ The A g e of Reason,” in 1793, fall, a rebellious, disobedient child
while in a French prison.
In this, of Hell, living in sin with prejudices, they themselves were in direct com*- not try to warn him away from the voted mother would fill many page«. erill stated, and i f enough birds are
he refers to the Bible as “ A book etc., in harmony with unbelief, ex munion with God, have never hesi editor’s bear trap, yet I think a lit These memories will remain as pre caught will replenish the supply In
o f contradictions and lies.”
May periencing the T R U T H of the Bible tated to change the scriptures when tle reflection will convince Mr. Chap cious recollections to her friends different parts
o f the Willamette
man that the Great M ystery must and neighbors and as beautiful heri valley.
I ask the Journal i f this is ITS es that “ the way of transgressors is it suited their purpose.
In just this way many errors have remain buried in error, as far as
timation o f the Bible?
Its candid hard,” trying to find comfort in ev
tage to the loved ones who mourn
the world is concerned, until Satan her passing.
W A T E R R IG H TS SE T T LE D
answer o f this question will enable ery way, except God’s way of "r e been incorporated in the Bible.
Interested
Observer.
is
bound:
otherwise
the
Old
Boy
IN B U R N T R IV E R DECISION
me better to understand and might penting and believing the Gospel,”
She was a member o f the Christ-
would know it all, and order
his tian church, and order o f the Eastern
ily influence the style- and charac even to trying to take on “ N EW
Baker.— News that the long-drawn
earthly kingdom differently. “ Aban Star.
ter o f the subsequent letters.
By THOUGHT,” a clever trap of the
She was born
at Corydon,
don reason all ye who enter here,” Iowa, on November 16, 1875, and out contest involving water rights
it, I shall know whether the occas Devil— “ My sins found me out, O
is the plain Biblical admonition to was 50 years old at the time o f her on 27,425 acres on Burnt river and
ion wap o f "its head or its heart.” wretched man that I was” when my
its tributaries in Baker county had
the household o f faith.
A fte r Paine had done, in his book, heart turned for deliverance to The
death. She was first married to H.
state was re
That portions of the Bible bear S. Bullock, who died a number o f been settled by the
with what he was pleased to call the Lamb of God, even Jesus Christ, who
■vidence o f more than human inspi years ago. Tw o children were born ceived here today from State En
grammatical
evidence that
Moses bore my sins in his own body on
The rights o f 248
ration. I believe the editor will admit to this union, Claud and L. K. Bul gineer Luper.
was not the author, o f the books at the tree, and I then found, “ BY
users were involved.
in his heart of hearts, as he is evi lock.
tributed to him, he tackled the his T A S T IN G .” that this gospel which Hear Mr. Editor:
About thirty years she lived
In 1867 the Eldorado mining ditch
I don’t know whether or not you— dently a student
o f it, and must in Vale and vicinity.
torical and chronological evidence, infidels despise, and o f which Paul
was started, carrying the water for
having
fouilH
the
defender
o
f
the
have
taken
note
o
f
the
“
coincid
and began wih the book o f Genesis. was not ashamed, to be ‘‘the power
On December 7, 1922,
she was
He takes his first argument from of God unto salvation to everyone faith, with the requisite amount of ences” of history corroborating pro- married to H. T,ee Noe, who was at over 100 miles across the divide in
This
the single word, D AN , being found that believeth.” And from that hour temerity, for wham your heart has ohetic passages recorded therein. So that time sh eriff o f Malheur coun to the Malheur river basin.
in Genesis, when it appears, from on I have been able to say with the so long yearned— will welcome this I refrain from boring him with any ty. Since the last election Mr. Noe ditch is now used fo r irrigation. In
the recent adjudication the water
the book o f Judges, that the town troubled Patriarch. ” 1 know that mv attempt to inject another syllogism of the more fam iliar example^. But has served
as Judge
of Malheur
rights claimed through this ditch
o f Laish was not called Dan until REDEEM ER liveth.” It is not prej into the controversy now raging in if he is unable to discern the spark
^ .
,
,
, . were hotly contested the ranches on
the
columns
of
the
Journal
heween
o
f
inspiration
in
the
following
from
udice,
my
dear
brother
Editor;
but
above 330 years after the death of
The funeral service was conduct-
‘
, ,
,
.
.
____.
ie
. .
..
Burnt river being loathe to concede
Moses; therefore the writer o f Gen Faith, Hope and Charity which will yourself and brother Chapman, but Isaiah, then his experience in trying K I ed from the Nelsen chapel M onday,
, _______
is
‘
,
,
,
.
.
.
’
____
.
any
right
in
the
present
owners
of
esis,
he concludes, (as
does the convince any honest inquirer after I believe you are both shinning up to get some theologian to pick up his
‘ at 1 o’clock, with the Rev. Broyles,
'
■
... *
,.
.
persimmon
tree.
Of gage has profited him little:
(Baptist minister o f
Ontario, o ffi the Eldorado ditch to divert any
Journal) must have lived after the truth, that TH E H O LY BIBT.E is the wrong
Isaiah,
56. 10:
His
watchmen ciating . Hundreds o f friend« crowd water completely out o f the water
town o f Laish had the name of Dan T H E WORD OF GOD, the book of course, I have neither the wish nor
are blind, they
are ed the chapel and the street outside shed. As finally passed upon by the
God hope to shake a faith o f the quality (shepherds)
given it. Lest this objection should all books, T H E Book of Life.
court, this right was allowed to 6
not be obvious enough to a common grant unto the Editor and all hi» ' apparently possessed by Mr. Chap without knowledge; they are all for bg]f g bIopk t(J p , y a |agt trib-
limited extent.
man,
v.ho,
like
Mr.
Bryan,
is
able
Dumb
Dogs
(D.
n.’s),
they
cannot
ubp
^
tbetr
gPntle
friend
and
neigh-
readers
this
knowledge
and
salva-
capacity, Mr. Paine IL L U S T R A T E D
to believe
anything in the Bible, bark; dreaming, lying down, loving I bor
Kpautif u| f|orai offerings cov- TE STS SHOW M O O NLIG H T
thusly: “ Havre-de-Grace was called Hon.
even though he knows it isn’t so. to slumber.
Very respectfully,
11 Yea, the dogs are ered the casket of the loved one,
Havre-Marat in 1793; should then
TO BE "R A D IO W R E C K E R ”
But o f the editor’s susceptibility to greedy, they can never have enough ;| tokpning the
deep regard of the
T. B. Chapman.
any dateless writing be found, in
Moonlight, a commodity generally
ideas at variance with his own pre and these are shepherds that cannot J ^ „p ig 0f Vale.
A F T E R T ’ MES, with the name of
conceived
conviction,
I entertain understand; they‘ have all turned to'
A nurnbPT 0f relatives accompan- believed to worry nobody but the
Havre-Marat, it would be certain evi Intereftpd Observer
some slight hope.
At
any rate, their own way; each one to his gain., |pd fbp body j,, RoeWen
cemetery writers of popular songs, today was
dence that such a w riting could not
Joins the Discussion here goes:
from every quarter. (Capitals a " 1! where It was sadly and reverently revealed in
new role as a radio
have been written
till after the
1) The English version o f the Bi parenthesis mine).
’ ]aid In its final resting place.
wrecker.
One statement in Mr. Chapman’s
year 1793.”
Now this is a wrong
Yours truly,
|
------------------- _
Preliminary tests for the national
conclusion, Mr. Paine and Mr. Jour article in last week’s Journal that i ble at least, (and we may as well
PEACEM
AKER.
1
L
IN
C
O
LN
'S
ADVICE
;urvey
of fading and static to be
say
all
versions
extant,
as
all
are
would
appear
to
be
open
to
criti
nal.
Suppose some hot republican,
in France, should at this day pub cism is, “ now we have our King translations) is N O T inerrant; (2 ) P. S. I will ask to remain anony-' Abraham Lincoln’s advice on how conducted by the Stewart-Warner
moss, as I have no desire to father,'to live was quite simple.
It was: Speedometer Corporation in coopera-
lish a new edition o f any old his- James version giving the world the there is no reason why it should be; I
Eat three square «Hon with Northwestern University,
(3 ) but all o f its text necessary to or have named after me a new war- “ Do not worry.
tory
o f France,
and instead
of iwtnnf sble inerrant word o f God.
to intimate meals a day. Say your prayers. Be
Dept, of Physics, on the nights of
plan ring sect. Which is not
Havre-de-Grace should write Havre-
I f then we have an immutable and the unfolding o f the Divinp
original in courteous to your creditors.
Keep,
Februry 9, 10 and 11 from 8 to It,
Marat;
and that, (tw o
or three inerrant version in the King James (in due season) to the elect bears (ha( there is anything
central standard time, brought uo-
thousand years hence) a man like | translation, then we have the pro- all the earmarks o f more than hu-1 all this, for as the Preacher saith: your digestion good. Steer clear of
* ‘There is nothing new
under the biliousness. Exercise
Go slow and
expected reports on the
insidious
the Journal, Maynard Shipley, Geo phesies exactly as they were uttered man inspiration.
go easy ”
1 acivitiea of the moon.
O f the first premise
the editor sun.”
Smith ,of the depaitment o f Orient- long ages ago; a version in which
MQ PUADMflhl HC D niC Ll “1
unflilflHIi
DUliY tr™™
m il.
Ur
J
wi»e M-*” * »«.■ > »»«.on
MAKES ASLE DEFENSE
OF HIS VIEWS
MRS H .L EE N DE W A R M IN G S FARMER
ANONYMOUS WRITER
SETTLES MUTTER TO
HIS OWN SATISF#0T!0N