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»ILVEKTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, ¡897.
THE PROGRESS OF NATURE.
nothing could ever bo done towHi-d
governm ental recognition of the
All n a tu re dies and lives again ;
T he flowers t h a t p ain t th e field,
t in stia n religion, w ithout being
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.T h e trees th a t grace th e m o u n ta in ’s against
plain word of /Ma—
C hrist,
brow,
well as against the fundam ental
A nd boughs and blossom s yield,
principles and the suprem o law of
Resign th e honors of th e r form
the G overnm ent itself.
At w in te r’s storm y blast,
And leave th e n ak ed , leafless plain
A desolated w aste.
Y et soon reviving plants and flowers
Anew sh all deck th e p la in ;
in 'th e'fv ir
in the fear of C hrist, we say th a t
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w e will not have to a c .a p t th a t sit-
uation. We will not have to do
it, sim ply because we will not do
it. N ot only this, but wear»*going
to oppose it with all our m ig h t—
not on the field of carnage nor with
weapons ot carnal w arfare; hut
as our fathers did, in the field of
public opinion, w ith ‘the sword of
the Spirit, which is the Word of
God,’ ‘with sufferings and the
C ross.’ There are thousands of us
now, and there are going to he
thousands upon thousands of us
before the contests is over, • who
will not ‘accept the situ atio n ’ ‘who
will n o t’ face the m usic.”
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ent, should d - w hat they can to prove th a t lie has attended to all
advance th en thought in .he inter- his duties regularly and a t the
ests o f ¡ntell. itu a l freedom .—B. F. seventh prove th a t he has never neg-
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elected his family. For every sin
some penalty is exacted.
Spencer.
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trines or not, the feat lately accom- Leiper, reporting the visit of the
plished hv Herbert Spencer in the Anti-Sal<>on League to President
completion of the last volum e of Cleveland, a short tim e before, adds
the S ynthetic Philosophy compels the following; and the italics are
A nd flourish green again.
ad m iratio n . The work is of «‘po­ his ow n:—
So m an, although he fades aw ay,
“ After this cerem ony was over,
chai im portance as a reflection of
Lives in a n o th e r race
the trends of m odern thought and
w riter went back to the presi-
A nd each doth fill h is little round
as the fullest expression of the dent, and in the presence of a few
Of life, of tim e and space.
greatest philosopher of th e age. others, said:
‘Mr President,
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It draws upon resources of inform a­ m ost earnestly thank you for the
W ill Not Accept the Situation.
tion which are the m ost remote and recognition of your Saviour and
inaccessible. It penetrates deeply m ine in y o u r T hanksgiving procla­
There is no m ore ea rn est opposi­
into biology, economics, m etaphys­ m ation.’ I write this incident in
tion to th e union of church and
ics, sociology and ethics and sums order to give the president’s reply,
state in this country than by those
the deductions thus derived into a which deserves to be rem em bered
C hristians who are ably represented
by all citizens. After referring to
synthetic philosophy
by th e Am erican Sentinel, a jo u rn a l
“ S etting aside all the questions the f.ict th a t he had I>een criticised
which is devoted alm ost wholly to
which are bound to come up for for it by th e Jew s and some others,
the advocacy of com plete Secular­
controversy am ong living thinkers, he re m a rk e d : ' \C,> a re a C h r is tia n
ization of the state. It keeps a close
To Liberal Thinkers.
n a tio n , a n d ire m a y a s w e ll fa c e
these very disputes are signs of the th e m a s ic .' ”
watch on the m ovem ents of the
1 h at statem ent of the president’s
N ational R e fo rm Association and
Rev. J. W. Chadwick in th e pregnant q u ality of Spencer’s work
of his P,,wer as " " instigator i does certainly “ .leHerve
b„ re.
other organizations which are C hristian R egister says th a t “ r e l i t - '
cooperating with it, declares their ious indifference of cu ltiv ated neo- ° f th o u 8 '"- The feat which lie has membered by all citizens,” an d by
'« a m agnificent exam - all others in the country. Indeed,
design and in every issue, shows what pie is a kind of sp iritu al breeding
P° Wer and endurance. there is not much likelihood th a t
m ust he the inevitable effect of th eir tan k to furnish converts to th a t or P ?
success an d appeals to the Am erican some other equally irratio n al sys­ 1 o undertake and outline a work they will have much opportunity
people to resist the-e ecclesiastical tem of belief. T heir children are knowing th a t it cannot possibly be to forget it. The real question is,
encroachm ents on their c o n stitu t­ as soft as p u tty in the h an d s of the completed for m any yea i s, and th a t will they “ face the music?”— Am er­
ional rights an d liberties.
The first m an who comes along with it will dem and a life-time of u n ­ ican Sentinel.
Sentinel was quick to call the any strenuous conviction or colos­ swerving application, is theconcep-
tion of a man of the highest cour­
Secular Flashes.
P resident to account before the bar sal fad.”
age and determ ination.
of public opinion for hisollicial recog­
Mr. Chadwick says th a t the
F or it is indeed the true ch arac­
“ If H erbert Spencer had accom­
nition of Jesus C hrist in his last liberal th in k e r is very hard upon
T hanksgiving p ro clam atio n . I t is the orthodox believer because of plished nothing else he would have teristic of science, th a t she casts her
stated th a t the president in com m ent­ his selfishness in addressing him-1 lived to - good purpose for the object net in search of results on every
side, seizes upon every perceptible
ing on these and other sim ilar self so exclusively to his individual eS9',n hc haa 8iven in
property of things, and subjects it
“ B u t,” rem arks Mr. a PPllcat“ ’n >° an id e a l”
criticism s said th a t this is a salvation.
to the hardest tests, no m atter w hat
“ C hristian n atio n ” and th a t sooner Chadwick, “ has th e liberal th in k er
W hen the M oham m edan, dies the finally comes of it.—Grimm.
or later “all will have to accept the been less selfish with his conception
be,jef ¡8 tb a t two
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The great business of life— even
situ a tio n ” and “ face the m usic.’ Of tl,ech u rch as intended only for ap p ear a t his head holding a bal-
The sentinel rem arks p ertin en tly :
his en terta in m e n t or advantage?
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before us— will be more fully u n ­
“ E verybody knows th a t upon I he orthodox believer has spent
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Gne part points to the east, the derstood and m ore ratio n ally
principle, and by express provisi« n untold treasures of
gold and
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other to the west. In this th ed ead
perform ed, the better m an know’s
of the suprem e law’, th eg o v ern m en t precious life to redeem the hea-
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m an s sins as well as his good deeds
of the U nited States was established then world.
H as th e liberal
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are weighed.
I hen his soul is
not only w ithout any recognition of th in k er done as m uch to m ake ♦_
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com panying angels. If otherwise, is a m ixture of good and evil. The
too, because of respect to the which m ake up th e sum of rational
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finite sp irit of etern al tru th m ight
M any l.beral th in k ers have con- 8tation8 in , he ab
At th e f im asylum s enough to hold the insane
move in its freedom, and p u rity , tnbuted generously to diffuse know- fie is asked in w hat m anner he has (rf its own n iak in * 11 ha9 flhed
and power,’ and th a t there m ight
- , ledge of th eir principles, hut there observe<1 the religioU8 rites pre- tnore blood ,h a n 1'ght.—Ingersoll.
be no encroachm ents upon the pre- are too m any, it m ust be confessed,
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