THE TORCH OF KEA'OX, .SILVERTON, OKEGOX, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1897, JOHN HICKS. struggle for blood. It believes in the n .... . efficacy of blood in the salvation of . . Z f T ° " ’ 0" PT ! 8’ °f hiS thB worl<,> a,,d i t h “ believed in Exact T.me, declared that 27 dis- the efficacy of shedding human carded books were genu.ne, Arch- blood in .he spread of its doctrines “ “ : D E A LER S IN : ~ ------ bi.shop \\ ake, also testifies to the and power. In Christian wars and ■ - « »•* * * ' * ’» „ o it is' 'estimated that » ith the above learned writers. On 150,000,(WO of the unfortunate sons the other hand many able chris and daughters of men have perished, tisms have denied the authenticity and that blood euougli has been Stoves, A gricultural Im plem ents, Guns, F ishing of several books that were admitted spilt in its name to make a river Tackle, C utlery, and Sporting Goods. into the canonical New Testament. large enough to float a great fleet Even Luther himself denied theau- of vessels. It has been a most thenitcity of Hebrews, James, Jude, bloody religion; it has devastated and Revelations. the fairest portions of the earth; it Buckle, in his “History of Civili has throwm into sadness and gloom zation,” p. 120, says: “The sys whole nations of people; it has tem of morals propounded in the suppressed individual rights; it has New Testament, contained no mercilessly pursued its helpless maxim which had not been pre v ietims at the secret hour of mid viously enunciated, and that some night; it has inflicted upon men, of the most beautiful passages in women.and children the most cruel D E A L E R IN the apostolic writings are quota tortures human ingenuity could C hem icals, Drugs, tions from pagan authors, is well M edicine, Toilet A rticles, known to every scholar.” But to devise; it has crushed liberty of Perfum ery and Soaps, Stationery. assert that Christianity communi* thought and action; it stifled the P atent M edicines, P aints and Oils, cated to man, moral truths pre highest and purest aspirations of Com bs and Brushes. viously unknown, argues on ihe the human heart. O, the bloody, part of the asserter, either gross cruel devastating, and almost in ignorance or wilful fraud. For terminable wars and persecutions evidence of the knowledge of moral which forsucceedingeenturiesswept truths possessed by barbarous na over southern Europe, western tions, independently of Christianity Asia, and northern Africa, and all and for the most part previous to in the naineof the mild and amiable its promulgation, compare Mackey’s Jesus! I he student of facts wo!! knows that the history of the Religious Development, Mure’s History of Greek Literature, Pres Christian church is but a record of cott’s History of Mexico, the works wars and persecutions for opinions Blood, Blood,” says Baxter, of Sir William Jones, and Mill’s sake. “stains every page of its history.” History •f of India. It is a standing argument with During the Crusades60,000,000lost Christians in favor of the divine ap their lives, not to mention the Span proval which their system of relig ish inquisition, the massacre of Corner Main and Water Streets, Silverton, Oregon. ion has received, that it has spread St Bartholomew, the sack of Mag- so largely over the world and that delhury by Tilly, and 45,000 Saxons so many millions of human beings by ( onstantine. For fifty genera- have embraced it. According to ions the church carried the black this criterion, Christianity is no dag of rapine and murder; thought more divine than Mohammedan w as a crime and investigation meant ism or Brahmanism and far less so death at the hands of a cruel and than Buddhism. J he last two sys ignorant priest-hood. Spain under tems named, existed many centu Moorish rule became a rich and ries before Christianity commenced, prosperous nation, and tne most and have each had far more fol enlightened of Europe, but having lowers. It is estimated that the been under the rule the Romish Buddhists alone have reached a church for 400 years, she is to-day number ten times as great as all one of the most illiterate nations the Christians who have lived. To on earth, as well as the most cruel, day they number about 400,000,000, and if she continues in her present three times as many as Christians course, will within a few years, be can truthfully claim. If numbers blotted off the map of Europe. W h e re A l! can buy to A d v a n ta g e . are the test of divinity and truth Ireland is another example, her of the various systems of the world’s sons areexiles, and Italy is repre Some Store-keepers pride them selves on great religions, Christianity will sented by a hand organ with a mon have to stand about fourth in the key begging for pennies. Mexico the fact th a t they cater to a special class scale. A comparison of the means furnishes another example of what of trade. We d o n ’t. Everyone can buy by which these different systems of the church can do when she has religions have been spread over the power, and so it has ever been here and he suited. One price to all, and the world is most damaging to and always will remain so, just as t h a t the very lowest. Christianity. Brahmanism is the long as people are kept in ignor most ancient, hut its history has ance and allow the advance agents of not been bloody. Buddhism has another world to do their thinking A. W O L F &. 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