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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1896)
< or V O L, LOVE SH A L L C O N Q U E R . . 8ILV£EXGN Q ipE C O N R EASON. ... . EMBER 17,1896. A N O T H E R ARM ENIAN M A SS A C R E , faithful loving wives, of quenchless Y ears are com ing, years are going, C reeds m ay change or pass aw ay, B ut th e pow er of love is grow ing S tronger, deeper, day by day. SSlfish claim s will soon no longer Raise th e ir h a rsh , d isco rd an t sounds, For the law of love shall conquer, B u rsting h a tre d ’s narrow bounds. T he A rm enians are a model peo- pie,let the m issionaries tell the story. But the press dispatches place them in an unfavorable light. At Lynn, Mass., there is a large colony of these C hristian pets, who have come all the way from Asia M iu o r to get aw ay from Ihe terrible l urk. A meeting Soon p ersisten t, brave devotion To th e good of all m an k in d Shall he deem ed th e chief em otion T h at im pels, and guides th e n ind. H u m an love shall spread a glory, Filling m en w ith ch ild-like m ir th ; Songs of joy proclaim th e story Of a fair, tran sfig u red e a rth . of these m alcontents was held at Lee lla ll, in Lynn, on the evening of the 22d nit., where some 250 were in ftitendance, th eir object to form a union of discordant elem ents, to be known as the Henchagist Revo- j Be ye as th e light of m o rning, Like th e beauteous daw n upfold, By your ra d ia n t lives adorning All th e world w ith hues of gold. T haw th e h e arts th a t now are frozen— T haw them w ith th e rays of love; Know, th e task th a t ye have chosen Shall be blest all else above. ............ NO. 7. The scene, beautiful to none an d ln°ther-Iove, of conflicts for the r*gbt, of sufferings for the tru th , of aP the best th a t all the men and wo,nen of the world have said, and thought and done through all the y ear8« 1 he>e treasures o f the heart and brain,— these are the Sacred Scrip- drearv to m any, was interesting to me and I watched it long in its m any changes. N ear one of the cars stands a woman with a sack in a hich she places the bits of coal she gathers from th e ground, th a t have fallen there from the passing ears. From under an old stru ctu re tu re s o f th e h u m a n race. against the bluff, two sm all ch ild -Selected. ren, clad in rags, bare-headed and WANDERINGS AND WONDERINGS. with no shoes on th eir feet, come The following is a clipping from iu t° view- T he larger one bears a th ,. T r u t h on.k. basket in her hand ami goes di- ' A ^ s ^ U e m ^ f ^ L in- ‘<> one of the cars loaded with lntionary Society, th eir purpose be-- form ation th a t for the second tim e C<>a’’ clim bs Up lnto 11 and ra Pld ,.v ing evidently to overthrow the T urk- tbe cjrcujt court of Lexington, ° ds her baskeL S,,e han d s it down ish governm ent, aided an d abetted i<v M rs P lb .tlw .tb P im d ! 4J to the sm aller child, who is not by th e m issionary C em ent. T he V, L peaceable ch aracter of this people the second tim e the ju ry failed to was shown on th e occasion m e n - jagree Mrs. Dudley, a t her form er tioned, when knives were draw n, trial was strongly 7 ,f the opinion chairs were throw n a t each other, th a t she had seen fa ir real live an- and a lively fight of the K ilkenny cat gPjH a t P ralltow n.” Mrs. D udley’s variety was set up. U n fo rtu n a te ^ environm ent is not exactly suited to dow " and ru n s to the old structure fr<>,,‘ whence she came, em pties the I basket and again returns to the car to a ,’° th er basketful. T his is —Gustav Spiller. repeated several tim es while the A D Y N A M ITE GUN woman who m ust he the m other of r hu m « in f ’nba Cen io1' futUFe ,ran(l uiIlity ’ ll'« Po,ic€i her gifts. If she were in France, the children appears not to notice. In < l,e ‘ ‘ . rushed in, an d in terru p ted the <lc near Lourdes, or anyw here in Eu- An engine steam s by and the^child- Antonio Maceo used a new dy n a-j gtruction o fth e b e l,igerel.eilta> ’ y n re in m i ro|*e a few hundred years ago, her ren "ca,,,»*r “ 8a,'e <li8ta,,ce a " d mite mm of Am erican m anufacture . . . ,r . , , , , . . . nine gwu .rx this affair be heralded to th e c o u n trj visions m ight be turned to account, pick up coal from the ground. for the first time. It proved as an o th er awful A rm enian m ass- There is still some call for people of The engine coupled o n to the cars a grer.t success. The gun con- acre, by the brut .tai T urkish IS her sort in the C atholic church, h u t ! a " d we,,t 8,*a m i" " “ P the lra c k - sists of three parallel tubes, the cials?— Pr< »gressi ve T hinker. P ro testan ts generally hold th a t I ' « “ ked again into the m uddy m iddle one being sixteen feet long though angels appeared onee they river and pictured to my fancy T H E REAL B IB L E . and the side tubes twelve feet. The the house of the m other and child can’t do it again.” latter are connected a t the upper For thousands of vears men r. . . , , . * It is very strange how tim e ren th a t I had ju st been w atching. an d lower ends. The projectile have been w riting the real Biole, , e . . . . . . changes things. Only a few years O ther im m aginations may picture is fired, or, ra th e r blown by com and it is being w ritte u from day to , , , , , , . . , ago a person would be burned to it as it best pleases them . Foot pressed air, from the m iddle tube dav, and it will never be Blushed , .. , , , , . , steps approached and I in v o lu n tar- . death if he couldn’t see angels and which is m ade of the best forged while m an has life. All the facts ially started tow ard the busy city. steel and is not more th an half an th a t we know, all the tru ly re nt >w he is tried for lunacy if he can As I m et th e m an who was a p inch thick. At the ex trem ity of corded events, all the discoveries see them . . . W here has , the change proaching me, he handed me a . . ’ . occurred, in the angels or in the the first side tube is a breech me and . inventions, all the w onder.nl printed circu lar and still had a chanism where a cartridge of ord i m achines whose wheels am i levt-rs people? q u an tity of them left. As I nary sm okless powder is inserted seem to think, all th e poems, crys- I stood on the bridge tlijit spans walked leisurely tow ard the city and then exploded. I his explosion taIs from the lu ain; flowers from the M issouri river a t O m aha and 1 read th a t an en terta in m e n t was drives the air into this tube th e heart, all the songs of love an d looked into the m uddy w ater below. | to ^eld a t the B aptist church through the connection to the sec- jOy of Hmi|ep anc| tears, the g re a t I was disappointed in the river fo r,! an(j ^he proceeds were to go to the oiid tube, and down the second into (jrHrn}l8 (,f Im ag in atio n ’s world, the w hile I had heard it was m uddy, I fo r e jg n missiou fund. On the last the m iddle tube or rifle and pushes w ondrous paintings, m iracles of supposed there was some size to it. page was a poem of m any verses out the projectile which is there, form and color, of light and shade I supposed it to he at least as large the first as follows: 1 his moves slowly at rirst, and theu | ^be m arvellous m arbles th a t seem as the W illam ette. I don’t w ant Oh C hurch of th e Jiving God, w ith great rap id ity . The rifle to live and breathe, the secrets people to th in k th a t I blam e the Aw ake from th y sinful sleep ; barrel is m ade long, so th a t the told by rock and star, by dust and river for it a t all. The only rea- Dost th o u not h e a r yon awful cry projectile will gain a high speed be flower, by rain and snow, by frost son it is not large is because it has Still so u n d in g o ’e r th e d eep? fore it reaches the end of the b a r and flame, by winding stream and not as m uch w ater in it as larger Is it n a u g h t th a t one of every four Of all th e h u m an race rel. The gun m akes a sh arp snap desert sand, by m ountain range rivers have. Should in C h in a die having never ping sound and em its no flame or J and billowed sea. On the hank of the river are the h eard sm oke so it is h ard to locate it at All the wisdom th a t lengthens railroad shops where hundreds of T he Gosjiel of G o d ’s grace? night. T he projectile carries th ir and ennobles life—all th a t avoids men work like dem ons, blackened C a n ’st th o u sh u t th in e e a r to th e teen pounds of high explosives, or cures disease, or conquers pain with smoke and grease. LoChmo- awful souud T he voice of th y b ro th e r’s blood? an d is provided with a time fuse. — a jj j UH^ an(j perfect laws ami tives pulling th eir heavy loads go A m illion a m o n th in C hina These shells dug into the ground ru je8 th a t guide and shape our puffing here and there, sending Are dying w ith o u t G od! and opened large gaps in the jjveH> a q thoughts th a t feed the smoke in picturesque curls high in I looked for the man, but he had Spanish breastw orks. T hey tore q allie8 of lOve, the music th a t th e air. _____ __._r ___________________ Back from the river and n e a r th e |paid his fare at ^he toll^ ate and into squares formed by the Span- transfigures, en rap tu res and en- ia rd s a n d scattered the dead and t r a i l s , the victories of h ea rt and bluff, on top of which a row of old Pa **-<1 over the bridge, on his way dying in all directions. brain, tbe m iracles th a t hands have buildings stands, is a long train of t0 Counci1 to let the People T hink of this barb arous homi- wrought, the deft and cunning freight cars standing loaded with of th a t city kno w th a t “a m illion a cide after 19 centuries of C h ristian - hands of those who w orked for wife coal. It is w inter and little pools m onth in C hina are dying w ithout at the ity. The world need- som ething and child, the histories of noble of w ater here an d there are frozen G od'” Not V' ,f once ' did " ,l he h<* look hu‘v Qt better. It needs Secularism . deeds, of brave a n d useful men, of over. ( C ontinued on page 3.)