THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1896. • * * tion was to locate where I could hear b'ghe^t- ’••’pvctfCivu of mail [Hom o ta M ethodist preacher h e r e m ade an a tle a s tjh u tc ir c u in s ta n c e a h a v e lo - sapiens], in the Iron Age. He cart Paul was a 111« tame, a eta . man addre8g p reaeh er is a eated me here for the present, w here be traced by bis tools and weapons who worke at 11s tra e, or era , ram p an t “gold s ta n d a rd ” m au, and nearly all the wome n and children of rudely chipped flint, with the bones of huge extinct m am m als in for a living, and preached for ove d u rjl|g ,,)e cam pai jug£ and weak m inded old river beds and lim estone cav of God (the church) as preachers ha3 bee„ e8pecial|y 8avage Qn the ))rlhodox churcbe8 T be don t tin now . the populists, hut his speech there intelligent and substantial m ale erns, K e n t’s cavern, near Torquay, The IheA houg it u sinner w 10 real s wag ag radical a populist free trade citizens do not.- B ut when I ask being especially notable. the whale story for himsell is I,able effon (iudirectly of course) as the them to subscribe for freethought N eanderthal skull has attracted to sm ile at so ame an aigunieu j most a rd e n t B ryanite could require, literatu re they decline to do so for m uch atten tio n from its singularly aut to sti la te a l n g e n n g 1 ea £p,e o[,j p op w ar-horses sat there various reasons; some are afraid brutal appearance, and appears to th a t the good Saint who so despised grinn£)d w bj,e th e c |erieal and ()thers have struggled so long he the nearest approach th a t has women did hum bn.g the brethren ,Jro. wa8 pollnding away> ap p a r. w ith effects of boom times th a t been found, as yet, to the m iss o t tat c urc . ... w « ii" ently perfectly oblivious of w hat they think they can not spare the ing link between m an and ape. th e cause of God, i. e .t le enure i, he wa8 doing w hen ,)e fin nillue Please send me the L ittle I he oldest type of m an known is characterized by long and narrow’ more abounded through Ins skull- t||e ho|lge g<)|dbugs ftnd C andle # duggery and lying, why should he c h w red , U8tj,y and Q u ar(er|y am) (>,d - heads [dolichocephalic], prom inent >e ju t ge a sinnei . - n t .e nal)g |,ty Pops. sm iled serenely, for tru th and justice while living eyebrows, m edium stature, and great thickness of bones, and prom BUcceet ei >} lin g ( g u t ') » .) '1 he president of the college fol- and eternal sleep when dead inence of ridges denoting great not? I can m yself rememlair when lowed H e spoke of the schools,, A. G. D escent . m uscular stren g th .---- Agnostic’s it was openly held th a t deception ¡tg in8titution alld ifg 8up ort au d p g. I was born in 1830, m ar- Prim er. w as rig h t if done th ro u g h good ull| A„ ; , uii s. . • • x • i- , , . ' . eulogized eveiything pertaining to ried in aool ». mv 1356. Mv wne wife is is stm still with with motives a n d g o o d , 1. e., C hristian „„,1 1. 11 a , ; , Q uestion Box. , a . ’ . . n highly and probably not un- me and when death separates us a d v a n t a g e , c a m e of it; and th at -lloxi.T t i : • T • . * . . . . . . ’ , ju s tly . I his president is, I am in- she expects to go to A b rah am ’s If five hundred men, who lived branch of C hristianity knowu as o „ .... , . , . 6 >f . , formed, a goldbug politician and bosom and I expect to be crema- th e M orm on c h u rc h teach es y e t j >• 7, . , . . Ia , 1 e d nineteen hundred years ago, claim ed . . . , . ,. . . ; . obtained his presidential position ted to have seen witches, would you t h a t it is right to lie for ihe good of . l .u , <■ „ ap . , —. .. a “ p ull.” 01 course g iihnc he xin |g , , , ■ . . - i , i , through believe in witches? D escent of M an. the church " the ~ ----- *l-----3 rch, - 1. e., priesthood. O1, _ 1 . , . .. , . . T> . _ not supposed to have any socialis- And the ancients had St. P a u l , St. .• . Is there as good proof th a t , . . . Man represents the highest de- ’ tic tendencies, yet ho m ade a social- witches exist as th a t Jesus was Constantine, St. Esubius, etc, and • , , . , , , ’ • istic speech, pure and s im p le . B u t velop m ient of anim al life, and is resurrected? modern C hristians have Spurgeon, , • , T a . - . . . . 1 , rp , ’ both self aud , I . Q I , , — V.. him z.xuzxcvii cauaa his .i.tw audience a u u ie n c e ap- mcJu< ‘»eluded in th e order ‘P rim ates’ Is the fact th a t you never saw . . . . . . .. . peared to be perfectly oblivious with apes and monkeys, each be- George W ashington an y proof th a t . „ . . • , °f the fact, and he w a s c h e e re d nig of common m am m alian descent, Jesus was divine? homrne,” to overcome them w ith 1. , „„ , . • • ,1 . . . . . . “ g u ile .” W ell w hv n o t ? P eo t.le 6 eCh" W eD<L 1 h e hall o n g tu ally tree-dw ellers in T ertiary Do orthodox people use deductive • i ’ . ‘ . ..»V was packed, densely. H ad these times. The apes of the old world or inductive reasoning in trying to a re so easily h u m b u g g ed . W h y . , . . , . . . , 7 e , . „ a ;.,, .1 ir a» 7 Pe° p le been asked to come an d hear are the highest of their class, are not indulge them some? If they . ,. a ® , ’ prove th eir religion? W hich is , • . , a a J a socialist address, by a socialist, the naarest to m an, and are conse- kick a t a nam e, >et accept the fact e J ’ a, ,, , . best, deductive or inductive rea w ithout the nam e, what does th e ,h ,'ee- f¡’url,,,, " f ,h * "‘ wot.hl no, quently eal ed anthropouls.’ They soning? name am ount to? “ A rose by any have be,‘n tl" 'r”- The M ethodist include gibbons, orange, chim pan- If a w ayfaring m an, though a r.tkow ..u.w ..1 1 11 n Preacher and all would have »nd gorillas; all being w ithout other nam e would smell as sweet.” , , , . a . fool, need not err therein, why are [T h a t quotation is old, hackneyed, ^ l"Je“ ‘."e'1 Pe rl,ap» “ bused tails and cheek , touches, and hav- there so m an y C hristian denom i .hreadbare, fra je d at the edges, and ,h r alterw a' d -. Y<>ur Christian, -„g and ca ta rrh in e n o strils like nations? all th a t f know, hut it tits in here . y° 'lr P°l,t,cal P artisan, sel- man. Ih e gap betaeen civilized Is the religion of h u m an ity very all the same 1 t,Om ° r u e v e r m a so n s, a n d h as an(1 ravage m an is g re a te r th an easily understood? If Jesus had It is a fine thing to be brave, but 'i 111 s ',Se ,for torehe8 U" !eR8 H tl"*it betwee'' ‘ he savage and th e ' lived in the 19th century, to w hat when we have a treacherous enem y torch of discord;” and eer- anthropo.d ape. Man and ape are church do yon th in k he would to overcome, who seldom fights i'u “ .“ T a r'’ tO like the 8" “" lar 8tructure- ‘" ’'’¡b’ ’¡fe, belong? the open, is it not good policy to Pr° ve' blal “ red ra « ” “ > “ ' ’ttll, gesture and expression, and both W hat did Jesus mean when he use a little “guile?” ' an^ niay ^>e bard to lead or are subject to the same diseases, told the orthodox people th a t they T his phase of hum an nature I <lriVe’ bUt Ca" be “over’ f' ’r " ‘ diSti',C‘ 8ocie,i‘>9- " nd were like whited sepulchres, which illustrated a little when I lived a t I ° ° “ e Wlth g " ile‘” bi,‘e f° r Protecti‘,n, com bination indeed ap p ear beautiful outw ard, Aumsville. I tried to get some of f ’reethouHb t can only appeal ( favoring the developm ent of emo- hut were w ithin full of dead m en’s m y C h ris tly friends to take the to. the ln tell'8 cn t and independent tnm al and intellectual strength. bones and of all uncleanliness? “ F reethought,” then being pub- m inded, yet there are very m any M«»» differs from the ajie in th a t be Was Jesus a reform er? Did he ¡ h I. h .1 i iu n S an F ra n c isc o by gOO.d pC° ple wh° leave to others ,U,rt * beavi“r b ra in ’ broader fore- linked try to tear down the orthodox and M acdonald I th e*r Way ° f ‘ th iu k in g> a n <i the head, and possesses th e power of Putuain churches of his tim e? could not get them to read it, let form ation of th eir ideas and con- building up ideas; he is more erect Did such a m an as St. Jo h n elusions; therefore if the cause oi has a more ¡»erfectly developed aloue subscribe for it. The nam e m akes out Jesus to he, ever exist? scared them . And there was sent m ental liberty shall more abound vocal m echanism , a better heel and How long after Jesus had died through (innocent) “ guile,” w h e re - shorter arm . M an’s individual me from the east, a few leaflets con did St. Jo h n say, “ In the begin fore shall we be adjudged “ sin n ers”? developm ent reads like a recapitu- taining some sayings and senti ning was the W ord (Jesus), and the I his is not cowardice; it is diplo- lation of his ancestral history. H is m ents by “ Bob Ingersoll” . They W ord (Jesus) was with God, and were so headed and had the ad macy, strategy, ju stifiab le un d er prolonged infancy helped to evolve the Word (Jesus) was God?” Did the conditions. We do not m ake gentleness, as the habit of using of the A. S. U., its officers etc., a m an by the nam e of Jo h n ever printed ou them and they were no the conditions, neither can we slicks and stones, and of buildiifg lie? go. No one would touch them , change them. They are, and it is shelters, evolved wit. Man and the p a rt of wisdom th a t we m anage th e antropoid, or m an-like ape, We give the T orch of R eason so 1 did a little “guile.” I wrote accordingly. branched off, in different directions, and the T ru th Seeker for one year to the parties who printed them ‘‘Be ye therefore wise as serpents;” from a common ancestor, through to new’ subscribers, for $3. The to p rin t me a hundred, leaving off everything hut the subject m atter. never mind the “ dove” business, m an y centuries of evolution and T orch of R eason aud Free T hought developm ent as ape-like m an Magazine for one year to new 1 heu I «aid to my “ C hristian That can he considered later. F. S. M atteson [A lali] of the Miocene and Pleocene subscribers for $1.75. p » l(« rn an il deception « u iac not m ean , O |w (h e | w a i a f,.e e th o u g h t )e c tu re ((ocasiollal|