THE TORCH OF KEA'OX, .SILVERTON, OKEGOX, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1897,
JOHN HICKS.
struggle for blood. It believes in the
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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
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bi.shop \\ ake, also testifies to the and power. In Christian wars and
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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
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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
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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
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spread without causing the flow of or them.
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Mohammedanism
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