« THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1896. OUR ENGLISH CO WORKER Those who did not hear Geo. \V. Foote of E ngland, during his recent visit to America missed a treat indeed. He is one of the fore most th in k ers and orators of out age. H e is not egotistical, but __ _ * » | f ». . * , cause. H e does not b rag on Ins per- , , . secutions as m any do who have . , . , , , been in jail a n d a lth o u g h he sp e n t . „ „ . ... „ , , a vear in Holloway jail in E ngland J ,, , „ . , for ‘‘blasphem y, he refrained . . . . . . from m entioning it in his lecture m • .. , . . America until requested to do so by Judge C B. W aite lb- said it must not be supposed m u he has for gotten it or th at he intends to let th e C hristians forget it. H e said he was charged in his indictm ent (for which he paid) with being in stig a ted by the Devil and bringing the C hristian religion into disbelief and co n tem p t. “ Im a g in e , sa id Mr. F o o te, “ anyone bringing the m ul tip lic a tio n table into disbelief ami in so m any im portant p a r ticulars, there is so much diversity of opinion as to who were their a u thors, and as to the periods of tim e when they were w ritten, that they stan d greatly in need of confirm ation. C hristian w riters adm it that thev were not w ritten Mil froni in ii'n C o sixty years alter . , ; • ... the death ot Jesus, and some believe , . the tim e still longer, th e re is no f4 l _ . . . proof th a t they were known to be . . /.. ... . in ex isten ce till well along in the , T second century. Irena?us is th e x x . first w riter who is know n to have*! called atten tio n to them and he died iu tHe early p a rt of the th ird cen tu ry . I t will be observed th a t in none of the gospels is the a u th o r ship claim ed by the supposed w riter, nor can it he shown by what a u th o r ity the book o f M atthew is accred ited to M atthew, of M ark to M ark, and so W’i tli th e o th e rs H. D. B urrows . i - — - To be able to discern th a t w hat is true is true, an d th a t w hat is false is false—th a t is the m ark and ch aracter of intelligence.— R. \V. Em erson. contempt! The m ultiplication table will stand criticism and th e ( hristian religion will not.’’ He said if he were instigated by the devil and laboring for him he There is no alleviation for the would be m uch pleased to m ake the „ufferi m an k in d except ver. acquaintance of his employer and in acit f thou ht and action and fact w-ould ra th e r breakfast w ith the the resolute , . facing , ■ of f the world . as devil the next m orning th an with . . , . c , ® it is when the garm ent of m ake- any m inister he ever met, as the , ,. , , . . , , , J believe by w hich pious h an d s have devil is given credit for being a , • , , .. . . . . i & . hidden its uglier features is stripped verv wise and learned being wdiile ,,, .. , * off.— I. H. H uxley. it is always I he fool of the fam ily who enters th e m inistry. _______ • “ Wneu Mr. Foote entered his cell N ew ton, Iowa, Sec. the first object th a t m et his gaze Mrs. E. B. Moffit, u was an immense bible which com- Riverside, Iow a, J. Fesler, pletely covered 1 he stan d on w hich Present, Okla. B. C. Brewstei u it lay. “ W h at,” he thought, ‘‘you Vancouver, W ad i., here? I am to spend a p a rt of my Mrs. 11. D. Burrows, life here for knowing too much of Spokane, W ash., R. Sharpless, you already and m w I have W agner, Oregon, Robt. U arsner, “ tw elv e m o n th s in which to delve V ale, Oregou, Lillian .Johnson ‘‘ still d e e p e r into your im becility.” Upon his release from jail at th e N orth Y am hill, Oregon, Miss Roxie L aughlin, •* expiration of his term , he resum ed the publicatiou of th e F reeth in k er 1’o rtian d , Oregon, Ada Dewey , in which he prin ted cartoons, and as M cM innville, Oregon, the first copy came from his p rin te r; Mabel H opkins, he put it into an envelope, drove to Silverton, Oregon, the residence of the judge who sen-1 Mrs. J. D. Guiss. tenced him , and left the paper with F irst Secular C hurch of P ortland, his card an d his co m p lim e n ts.' C lara Bailey, Sec. 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