Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903, December 17, 1896, Image 1

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V O L,
LOVE SH A L L C O N Q U E R
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8ILV£EXGN Q ipE C O N
R EASON.
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. 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.
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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
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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
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‘ . 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>
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ro|*e a few hundred years ago, her ren "ca,,,»*r
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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
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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, ,
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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
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, 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 ,
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, steps approached and I in v o lu n tar-
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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
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. 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.
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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.)