Torch of reason., January 14, 1897, Image 1

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T H E TORCH OF REASON.
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Man H intelligent, hence it is £„.| wisdom and thanksgiving. ,l,,„| *
concluded that he must be the work
feelsaceor.l-
Spalding says, “feel exactly as God
For th e Torch of Reason.
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Vi - u v t m ti
“ So long a, the T ouch of tru th m akes of an intelligent being, and not of a ing’io Vhei?“ meaZ.re \ 7 t h e y V"a're
its way it m a tte rs not how or by whom
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■ 1 teeis, according to tln-ir measures,
nature
devoid
ot
intelligence
filled
with
all
i
lie
fullness
of
G
od”
it is b o rn e .”
H uxley .
as they are filled with all the full-
Although nothing is more rare than Patten in “Sermons to the Young,” ness of God ”
to seem a.. use this intelligence, o f ' says “Out of that mouth, out of which j I nco.,q arably superior to the
The Torch of tr u th is m aking way
which he appears so proud, I will when you open it will proceed H a n ie s ,saintP in he ‘ ni(J Ilv „
The powers of d ark n ess m ourn ;
lilest is th e land w ith rea so n ’s ray,
adm it th at lie is intelligent, th a t his will also pr<x*eed dreadful b
l a s n
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o o r « « o n u i n i d s p m - p erso n s co n sig n ed to hel of w h o m
By w hom soever borne.
neees-.ttes develop
him this ,.her against God. That same tongue. it is not said ,1m, they rejoice'ih
The gloom was g reat when tru th
faculty, th at the society of other Io cool which you will wish for a one another’s sufferings', and whose
was c ru st,
tnen contributes
especially to employed "io "'e,n silnge a n d ' bias- CUrH,.s Hnd ''¡““phenties, consider-
And m ig h t was reckoned rig h t;
cultivate it.
Hut in the human
The rule of wrong has done its w orst,
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machine and in the intelligence pheming Gcd anti Christ “
For tru th tu rn s on m ore light.
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hell, which God could end in ‘a
with which it is endowed, 1 see 1 ,, ve seen cruel , men, witnessed
cruel
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moment hut will not, are no more
Once priests and kings o rd a in e d -4‘Obey n o th in g t h a t show s in a precise deeds,
out 1 have never seen men A ,
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’ death
if F I. is
ivi ■
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to
be
condemned
than
would
be
the
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wouxu ot me
manner the infinite intelligence of as cruel as God and hissaim s have
Ye m ust believe, or we will slay,
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expressions
and
contortions
of a
the workman who has the honor of been represented to be. I know from .
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And send your soul to h e ll!”
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human
being
under
the
knife o f« ,
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making it. I see that thisadm irable personal experience som ething of I • • .
But science searched to fin,I out fa, ts,
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, vivisector who should prolong the
machine is subject to derangement; the honors of war, of battles and' .,« • . a]
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And found those th ro n em ate s frau d s;
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suffering to the extent of his Dower
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T r u th ’s torch re\ ‘.tied th e ir roguish acts that at that time this wonderful battlefields, of victory amt <»f< efeat,'
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and exeicise all his devilish in-
T he gleam conusm ned th e ir gods.
intelligence is disordered, and some­ of capture and being captured, of
times totally disappears; from this guarding prisoners and of being con­ genuity in making it as excruciat­
In vain th e hypocrites m ay rage,
ing ami horrible as possible.
And p riests read bibles stra n g e ;
I conclude that the human inteb, fined in war prisons and hospitals
B. F. U nderw ood .
They soon will loose th e ir hireling wage, ligence depends upon a certain as a prisoner of war; hut in all mv
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W ith rea so n ’s ray in range.
Secular F lashes.
disposition of the material organs
„ __ , experience I have never seen mani-
T hen brave the T orch of R eason hear, of the body, and that, because i tested such heartlessness,
such
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Nature
rejects
the
monarch,
not
O ’er ocean, peak and p lain ,
man is an intelligent being,
it
is hellishness of disposition as th a t of i | ltl
+ 1.
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l ,»e m an. the subject, the citizen*
Till not a hum an anyw here
.
not
well
to
conclude
that
God
must
the
God
of
the
clergv
and
of
the
n
„ ,ra and
all,i subjects, m utual
» , , foes, for-
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bhall grope in e rro r’s reign.
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kings
loiix P l rescott
r p h p o t t n uri n
b e a n intelligent
being,
any . more i saints of a few generations
ago.
1 1 ever . play
i(1„ a .. 1 losing
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. each .
JOHN
LruiLD.
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game into
¡than because man is material, we never saw a soldier rejoice over the zob^r’u
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The E xistence of Alan Does Mot are com pel lefLUt Conclude th at Goo death agonies of a wounded ami .. 1 m :qprv Tl \
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Prove That of God.
is m aterial. The intelligence o f: dying soldier of the enemy who by
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1 ** man ° vlrtuoUR
man no more proves the intelligence j the fortune of war had fallen into pnu.„_ k u .. q ,, , .■
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. f then
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” ..... his
to . hands.
1 ower’ llke “
pwtulence,
Whence comes m an? W hat is , Go<I
the tnalioeofmen
Ills origin? Is he the result ofthe the malice o f this God, of whom they i I never saw a soldier wounded pollutes whatever it touches; and
fortuitous meetings of atoms?
pretend , ha, mat, Is the work. In and suffering, capture,1, on the obedience, bane of all genius, virtue,
Was the first man formed of the k ♦
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freedom, truth, makes slaves of men,
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dust of the earth? I do not know! God will always be a cause contra- the enemy’s prisons, denied a glass iz(.d autom aton.-S helly.'
Man appears to me to be a produc- dicted hy its effects, or ofwhom II is of water to quench his thirst, ft
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era noble deed is wrouebt
tion of nature like all others she impossible to judge hy his works
was common under ordinary cir-
embraces. I should be just as We shall always see evil, imperfec- > cumstances for soldiers to
. give
. t Whene’er
a noble thought
n
, is spoken
.
much embarrassed to tell you whence tions, and follies resulting from a from their canteens, water (or T
,* a , t ’ I n 8 zH K’irprise.
came the first stones, the first trees, | c„use c,ailned t„ ,)B full,o( KO()dnew> whiskey if they bad i t ) to captured ° g r l"V'‘1'’ r,se— Lo-gfeHow.
tile first elephants, the first an ts, of perfections, and of wisdom
men whom they guarded. But the
a general rule people who
the first acorns, as to explain th e ,
Jean M eslieb.
God of Edwards and Spalding was flagra n t|y
t'- anything, are
origin of the hum an species.
------------------ utterly indifferent
the tortures
the tortures
rcverRe of ine
‘hat
which 01 they which
pre-
utterly to
indifferent
to the
reV(‘rse
they pre-
Recogntze, we are told, the hand
Theological Diabolism .
of
of the
the da,.med,
damned, represented as
as hor-
hor- tend
tend to‘
to* A man
man who
who Het"
sets UP
up for
fora »
of God, of an infinitely intelligent
. . . . b.-yond . . all
. conception,
. . and
.
waint i«
k« a a ain»»»
« « j a „
rible
Haint
is anrtafn
sure to be
sinner, and
and powerful workman, in a work
I___ would
„1.1 . neither end 1 their
.1 • agonies
‘ . man who boasts that bp
he itt
is u a kinnor
sinner,
\\ hat savagery, what fiendishness he
so wonderful as the human machine, has been taught in the name of him nor relent fiom his purpose to is sure to have some feeble, maud­
I would admit without question who it was declared, came to bring make their suffering as endless as lin, snivelling bit of saintship
that the human machine appears glad tidings of great joy to the world, eternity. And his saints, fit suh- about him which is enough to make
to me surprising; hut since man Jonathan Edwards, the great leader jects for such a God, were so selfish him a humbug. Masculine honesty,
exists in nature, I do not believe it of orthodoxy in America, said:
so insensible to the indescribable whether it be saint-like or sinner­
right to say that his formation is
“The sight of hell torments will torments of millions of their fellow like, does not label itself either
beyond the forces of nature. I will exalt the happiness of the saints for- creatures who never wronged them, saint or sinner.—Bulwer Lytton.
add, that I could conceive far less ever.” “They will not he sorry for that they were utterly without
Reproachful speech from cither
of tic-form.iti<»n <»f the human ma- the damned; it will cause no uneas- compassion. Nay they were, when. Hi(le. The wantof argument sup-
chine, when to explain it to me iness or dissatisfaction to them; hut they contrasted the condition of the
Pfi«d; They railed, reviled; so
they tell me that a pure spirit, who on the contrary when they see the damned with their own condition, often eiK,H the contest of disputing
has neither eyes, nor feet,
nor sight (of the damned in endless tor- so joyful that they broke out in fien d s.—Gav.
hands, nor head, nor lungs, nor ments) it will occasion rejoicing and songs of joy. They contemplated Strength of mind is exercise—not
m outh, nor breath, has made man excite them tojoyful praises.” Rev. with delight the unending torments rest.—Pope.
by taking a little dust and blowing Josiah Spalding-aid that when the of those whom they saw sink into
T h e id e a th a ta certain belief is
UPTk ' a
• k k’t t r p
r 11.?fH T 6 tHe ‘ Wlcked Slnk down ,o hell> including their dearest and necessary to salvation unsheathed
C‘ S A age in 1a >1 ants of I ara- hell, they beg,,, the triumph nearest friends.
the swords and lighted the fagots of
guav pretend1 to be descended from » „ g They see the power of God
There is not among the lowest persecution. As long as heaven L
he moon, and appear to us a . simple- employed in the moat terrible man- savages or the most demoralized or ihc reward of creed instead of deed
tons; the theologtans of Europe ner to make their dearest and near- depraved of men, a man who is so just so long will every othodox
pretend to be descended from a pure est connection forever miserable, completely destitute of sym pathy ¿hurch be a bastile, every memb“
P M I 1’ h ' 8 preten8,On raore And for this display of power they end sensibility who is so hopefully B prisoner, and every ' priest a
ascribe unto new blessing* and glory selfish, so hardened and morally turnkey._Ingersoll.
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