The Public Platform from Winfield, Kansas • 4

JUST AS I THINK OF IT. rb I live whether you want me or not, in his sermon in last I'uiiltc Platform said, at the one hundred and tlfth Gen If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity, but is not ii ran BY 0, A. ROBERTS. eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Hhis world going to be Christianized church at Washington, D. there before Christ comes? Oh, no! Listen were 580 elected commissioners, minis to the word of God, "But evil men and Religious bigotry is one of the greatest curses of the world today and always has been.

There are thousands of different, so called religious beliefs ters and elders. Five liundrod and seducers shall wax worse and worse, eighty-six parasites in one church at deceiving and beiuK deceived, and as one time in our national hot-bed of in the world, all founded on the book, the days of Noab were, so also shall corruption. And Dr. Hai tlett pointing the coming of the son of man be, for called Holy Bible, and thousands of religious bigots to each of the different to one of the pews said, "There is no greater religious relic iu this world Save while you spend and spend to the best advantage. Not by Favor, but by Low Prices and the Best Goods alone, do we maintain our reputation.

We beat them all in Style, Fit and Make-Up. We are the People for the People and we ask the People to call and see our bargains in Men's Boys' and Children's Suits. Our stock is very large and we are going to sell It. See our line of Hats for summer wear and our stock of Nobby Ties of all kinds. Shirts, Collars and Underclothing for the masses.

Call and see us and if we can't do you good we'll own up. religious beliefs and all, like so many than this pew where Abraham Lincoln FIVJ3 HUNDRED DOLLARS TIE-WARD. I1YL. NKAL. There baa been much said in regard to the Seventh Day Adventlsts obeying God Instead of man, and especially in keeping the seventh day, the Sabbath commanded "by the Lord thy God," instead of the first day of the week commanded by man.

Now we do not wish to offend anyone or harm anyone by obeying God; nor do we believe that any person that has Christ dwelling in his heart will And any fault with us or with the word of God, for that person that obeys God will not inflict any punishment on his fellowman but will love his neighbor as himself. As we are accused of maintaining a very peculiar position in regard to the Sabbath, IiisomucU.that we do not try to compel anyone to keep either the ns in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered Into the ark and knew not until the flood came and took them all away; bo shall also the sat to worship bis God." Other presl public parasites, preying upon the people. I how the people like to be humbugged, In religion as well as politics dents of the United States had held pewB in the same church. Moreover, Mrs. Cleveland, a good Presbyterian coming of the son of man be." And now Christ is coming with ten thou I have often wondered why it was and how it was that our greatest Bible students and theologians differed and the wife of the president of the United States, also a member.itis said sand of his angels.

Coming in all his srlorv. nnd then "Shall the wicked be so widely in regard to the teachings of the Presbyterian church was at that time occupying another pew in front of the "Holy Book" which they all claim was written bv inspired men, J. S. MANN, Everybody's clothier. of the speaker.

Great God! What kind of "drip and at last I have come to the con revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of bis mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of bis coming, and the great day of his wrath is near, and who shall be able to stand? pings" is this from the holy sanctuary? clusion that instead of haying wise, conscientious theologians amongst us the whole world is cursed with a vast No greater religious relic in the world than the pew that Abraham Lincoln sat in to worship bis God. Now, Mr. P. II. ALBRIGHT.

BRANT STAFFORD. army of theologasters. seventh day or the first day, I will just say that we do not consider it auy of our businass or anybody else's business which day anybody keeps. Knowing A few Sundays ago I attended a Graham, which do you suppose was the greatest and best man in Dr. Bartlett's camp meeting at New Salem which that vengeance belongeth unto God estimation, Abraham Lincoln or Jesus was being conducted by the Rev.

Dun and that every one must appear before bam of the sanctlflcation wing of the Seek ye the Lord while be maybe found; call upon bis name while be is near, prepare to meet thy God." And when be comes we can look up and say lo! this Is oup God. We have waited him and he will save us. This is the Lord. We have waited tor him we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." Bubalas! There will be many men and kings of the earth and tne great men and the rich men and the chief Christ? What of it if other presidents had held pews in that or any other the judgment seat of God and give an M. church, and I tell you he's account for every Sabbath they have daudy.

If there is anything about STAFFORD ALBRIGHT, ABSTEACTBES. All matters pertaining to the examination of titles given prompt attention. Have a complete set of abstracts to all lands and town lots in Cowley county. OFFIGE 116 E9th. AVENUE, WSNFIELD, KANSAS.

broken, and not before the judgment seat of man: therefore we obey God God, Christ, Devil, Heaven, Earth or Hell that you don't fully understand church? What of it if Mrs. Cleveland is a Presbyterian and occupied a pew in that historical church at that very hour and right in front of Dr.Bartlett? If all the presidents and presidents' wives of the United States had held rather than man. But we do behey and want to know I would refer yoH to it our duty to take (Jurist Cor our ex this wholly sanctified religious bigot. ample la all things; and we doousidar The smile that he wore made me feel it our duty to keep the Sabbath day pews in that or any other church on holy according to the commandment earth would it nave made the pews and to teach others by precept and ex more sacred, as religious relics, in the captains and the mighty men and every bondsman and every freeman hiding themselves in dens and in the rocks of the mountains, and saying to the rocks and the mountains, "Fallon us and hide us from the face of him that sit-teth on the throne and from the wrath THE BOBBITT HOUSE. ample.

estimation of a real christian than if the same pews had been held by poor, How it is that professed Christians will take the first line or two of the tired. And when be told us grangers that if we were full of Holy Ghost religion and wholly sanctified unto God, we could stand with a big smile on our faces and see the chinch bugs and dry weather take all our crops and exclaim, "Thy will OGod, and not mine be done." Well I have always thougnt it was no crime to be a fool if you were old, black, christian slaves and their fourth commandment which says "lie wives? Is it to be wondered at that of the Lamb." member the Sabbath day tc keep it the devil instead of Christ is taking There will bo a present of $500 given holy" and then condemn the balance the world when we hear and read such to any minister, evangelist, lay, Chris of the precept as Jewish, is something "drippings" from the holy sanctuaries tian, sinner or hypocrite who will find I do not understand. The same pre' and present one text of holy writ that all over the country? As long as the people show such a willingness to have rings put in their noses and be yanked cept that says "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy" says theseventh says the first day of the week is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God or has any particular bearing on the first day around by salaried religious and politi born one. I would like tosee this soft-handed humbupger of the people, with thousands of others just like him or no better, be forced to raise fodder for chinch bugs and to raise and thrash thirty cent wheat where the dust was stifling and the temperature hot enough for the secondmile-post in hell.or work on a railroad section for one dollar a cal bigots we may expect the devil to day is the Sabbath. Then if anyone wants to keep the Sabbath day holy why not keep the one God has blessed, sanctified and setjapartasbis holy day? The first day never was blessed or set have bis own way in this country.

Did you ever think of it? On every coin of as the Sabbath setting aside the seventh day as the Sabbath. This information will be thankfully received and we will unite with you in keeping the first day holy. Show up or shut up. the United States money from a quar apart by God. Is it possible that peo 'Wixxfiolci, Kans.

One of the most popular hotels in Southern Kansas ter dollar up you can find as positive a dig coal hundreds of feet under pie are really ignorant and blind or are Tisdale, Septembr 1, 1893. ground just for the fun of it and feed they hypocrites and careless? Convenient to Court House and business part of the eity and clothe themselves and families on lie as was ever uttered. "In God we trust," is what you will find. Do you believe it? No, we trust in the coin that he is stamped on. Winfleld, Kansas, Sept.

1. Street cars pass the doors every few minutes. And he thanked his God that he bad gotten above Go to Beck's for photographs. AU kinds of vehicles at Bussart's. Buckeye mowers at Geo.

S. Bussart's. No! In the light that God's word throws in our path we do not dare to demand of civil power the observance of the seventh day. Did Christ ever JOHN BOBBITT, Proprietor. and beyond the sin of pride and a de sire for fine clothes and a stand-up col for all force anyone to worship Him? Did be Go to Cochran Hough's kinds of smokers' articles.

lar and a desire to possess wealth, but as sure as I am spending this Sabbath ever authorize anyone to persecute and inflict punishment upon people for not afternoon in writing a free "Just as I Walk in and get yourself a walking cane at Cocbrau Hough's. obeying Him? If so, please bring forth your proof. Oh, no, he never set any such example, but told us to offer our think of it" sermon for the Public Platform, the hat was passed around three times a day to gather in the The pipe line at Cochran Hough's Cigars, daily papers ana periodicals at Cochran Hough's. The finest line ot walking canes in the city at Cochran Houghs. Cochran Hough carry the finest line of walking canes in the city.

Do you smoke? Do you want the news? Then go to Cochran Hough's. Everything to make glad the heart of the smoker at Cochran Hough's. WE SELL THINGS TO EAT. reaches all the way from cob to selves up a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable -uato God, which is our reasonable service. And it professed humbugged people's "free will" offer ings.

I understand this sanctified man. receives $5 per day from a state associa 9 Geo. S. Bussart, the South Main Christians would do this instead of street implement dealer, can furnish you supplies needed in the strip. trying to force somebody to do what they do not and will not do, then sin Mounting photos on glass is some- ners would be led to be Christians in The finest smokers' articles in Winfleld are to be found at Cochran tion of the sanctified and then expects the humbugged people around his camp to "free will" him other five dollars a day.

Hence that smile, that holy, that sanctified smile. Now dear thins new. Call and see the Gale stead of hypocrites. If there is such a Glass Mount at Beck's, the only place The best line of Tea and Coffee, including Chase Sanborn's goods. Fine Butter and Cheese now in.

Fresh groceries evero day. "Cash paid for produce at 118 East Ninth Avenue. Q. Hough's. they can be had in the city.

Smokinp outflts, newspapers and reader allow me to ask a question, and periodicals at Cochran Hough's in Cowley Couuty National bank base We have a full line of drugs, patent ment. medicines, paints, oils, and give special attention to filling prescrip Cocbran Hough sold scores of SERGEANT I hope you will be as honest in answering as I am in asking. Does the salaried sectarian religious bigot or the salaried partisan political bigot commit a greater crime in humbugging you than you commit in allowing them to humbug you? Men put rings in ferocious bulls' noses so that alittle "yank" papers the day after the strip procla tions, and family receipes, using only the purest and best drugs. Brown mation was made. They always have Drug Co.

thing as anyone thinking this a Christian nation they are to be pitied. We are living in the last days, on the very verge of eternity, at the second coming of Christ. "Know this, that in the last day perilous times shall come." Is that so? Of course that is so. Now listen: "For men shall be lovers of their ownselves, covetous boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, bighmindtd, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of Godliness but denying the power thereof, from such turn away." Is the very latest news. Sponges.

School and College Books. A tull and complete line of college We deire to call your attention to and public school text books can be on the short rope that is generally attached makes his "bullship" submissive and harmless, so also have men learned that the ring business has a salutary our collection of sponges. We can suit you in prices and quality. We can give you a sponge for 1 cent as LISTESlsT. IjIS'Z'IEIET I We Have Something to say to You: found at our place of business, and our prices are very low.

We have anything in the line of school supplies. Second hand books bought and sold. influence over the actionsof the animal called man, consequently we see thous large as usually sold for 5 cents. Brown Drug Co. Brown Drug Co.

ands and thousands of men all over this country with a religious or politi that all? Nol "There shall be dis cal ring in their noses, and a great tress of nations with perplexity upon Hn a ss ij ZSo the earth. The sea and the waves roar many have both. And the man that allows either of these rings put in his ing, men's hearts failing them for fear nose is meaner than tha man that puts and for looking for those things which are coming on the earth." Is that all? them in. JtJlJ1 How many praying men pray today Nol "ifea, the time comeththat who 8.3" BS3 OVOvJ that God may give wisdom from on ever kllleth you will think he doeth THE 'NEW HOME' IEWING MACHINE IS THE BEST ON THE MARKET And Wo Are Headquarters- We also keep a full supply of Oils, Needles and all extra attachments God service. Why, and these things NEW FIRM.

Eli Reed Co. have bought the stock of groceries belonging to Z. rut-man and will continue the business at the same stand. Mr. Reed has only recently come here from Stillwater, O.

where he has resided since the settlement of that territory. He has bad an extensive business experience in the mercantile line in Cowley county in former years. Reed Co. will carry a full line of groceries, and they respectfully solicit the patronage of tue people of Winfleld and surrounding country. COWLEY COUNTY FAIR.

high in sufficient doses that the president and our national congressmen may see their duty to the people and will they do unto you because they have not known the father nor me," IB -5 ii EM have the backbone to doit. Had bet ter ask God to get after the fellows that John Has not this time come or very near? I should think so when people do the voting that send men to our national hot-bed of corruption to make and execute laws for the people. calling themselves Christians for If God will chuck enough common In Kasieal Instruments of all kinds. We make a specialty of repairs. Coma seuse and moral courage into the great voting masses of the country to stop and see us.

TheEIe ven th Annual Meeting at Win-field September 5, 6, 7 and 8, 1893. the ring business and the influence of money in our elections and to work off party bile, prejudices and blindness, Sign of the Big Horn, South of Baden's Double Store, Main St. that will beat pray ine for men after Old Cowley again comes to the front they have "got thar." Nodoubtmany with her great annual exhibition. De spite the weather, we have every ALWAYS AT THE FROST, It praying men are praying that this extra session of congress may bring BJSrt assurance that most departments will be full, the horse show will undoubted relief to the people, not for the real ly be the best in the history of the good of the people as for the good of trie democratic party. While other association.

In addition to the usual praying men pray that it may not as attractions there will be bicycle rac if ffS ing, base ball playing and balloon ascensions. This year we have con mm on mot row oo ooo that would kill and everlastingly damn the democratic party as a party and give the republican party a new lease We call attention of our friends and the public in general and wish to state what wo can do for them. YVe now have our ersey Ice Cream Parlors Ready for Your Patronage. sake the power of God and call on the civil power to make Christians, and this base and corrupt attitude is what people call a Christian nation Abase nation full of concupiscence from one end to the other. Well, what is going to happen? "I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation, and I will make it as the mourning of an only son and the end thereof a bitter day.

Behold the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord and they shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it; in that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst." When those things begin to come to pass this word cornea to the weary pilgrim Christian: "Lookup and lift up your bead for your redemption draweth nigh." Luke 17:28. Ob, that men would study the life of Christ and it. Then would "Their light break forth as the miming and thine health shall spring forth speedily, and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward; then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer, thou halt cry and he shall say, here I am tracted with a reliable balloonist in Kansas City, who has also contracted of life. No, no, we don't want relief unless with the Wichita and Topeka fairs, When iff which follow ours. MS Mr.

F. A. Squires and Miss Corinue, In need of we can get it through our party and our party's ways, and if we can only manage to keep our party in office we will ever be content with the circumstances -in which it has pleased God to place us which means endless toil, poor food, razored clothes, debt and 5i the celebrated female parachute jumper, will make ascensions on different days and on the last day both will go up in the same balloon and leap with separate parachutes. This will be one of the most exciting scenes ever witness For All kinds of Creams and Ices served at a moment's notice. Special prices to Schools and Parties.

Our table is spread in the next room three times per day with a good meals as you can get in the city. Day, week or morthly boarders given terms on application. To our Farmer friends we ask them to come in and see ns and especially when uttending court a juiors or otherwise. We can give you splendid meal and a good bed. death.

Reading Brother Dunham Bays Christ is taking the world. I say the devil is Call on me taking it and his satanic majesty has thousands and thousands of salaried ed on the grounds. If you think you can't afford to go to tha World's fair, take a day or two off and attend the country fair at a slight expense. Fair begins Tuesday Sept. 5th, don't forget to bring the family.

Excursion rates TOURS RESPECTFULLY, I can fit you. GLASS, preachers and politicians helping him. QUIIICY A. Rev. Graham, the installed, which JFRSEY PARLORS, S23 MAIN ST.

Eeh. fl. HsiErhniil, on all railroads. means, take me and support me as long.