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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1897)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1897. iron, mid could endure alm ost an y edge mid in harm ony w ith our J e s u s of N azareth . Niger. 1 bus we have one evanirel- fatigue. She never prayed, hut hope is, to n certain extent, jusiifl- ist anti four of th e early teachers P orphyry, the celebrated Neo very often swore, yet at times she able. It is belief m ade w ithout of C hristianity who were A fricans.” showed the tenderness of the most knowledge and in obedience to platonic philosopher horn 233 A Still an o th er pious fraud, the th ird refined woman. She was a jewel prejudice and fear th a t has cursed I), was educated under Grigen the collection of Sibylline orach s, in indeed, b rightly Hashing in the the world. O ur knowledge is con- t hristian writer. P orphyry wrote i . . ,, eight hooks. This collection is th e rough world by which she was sur- tiuually advancing. Shall we not, fifteen book? bowing the fallacies { ' . . , n u it ,»r tlie unscrupulous rie tv of ' 11 « h riu ; ,* ; r y .... ... . ' . . . ; V * ■ ....' some P latonic C hristians, more considered so effective as to he -Up- reflecting all its sadness, and yet its brightest result-?” zealous th an clever, IWCW (these OlOVlS Sibyls , , . . . . • resplendent w ith perfect woman- “ I suppose so, if such be o u r pressed hv p a r tic u la r e d ic ts u n d e r , • • ’ *.,, 4 . , being originally pagan oracles.) hood. m ood, a n d we d o n ’t do it on coni- th e reign of C o n s ta n tin e a n d l h e o ..................... l’inally it was from a p o e m o f the later \\ it <1 deft hands, she prepared pulsion, but obey our own sweet dosius. A bout a cen tu ry dhyl of th e G u in e a , th at the prin the beautiful M adeline for her will. I adm it th at the m ountains these hooks were ordered to hn pub- <-4 pal dogm as of C ristian v n h ru u m im ity y were were grave. M adeline had been so re- give a certain sense of power; vet, licly burnt by the Emperor Theo- , 7 dosius the elder. The wh.de list of th e lm Perial tiring i t \ her disposition th at she after all, they are but bare, rocky p , . , , . , in au g u rato r of the Christian relig- , . . , had scarcely been seen by any one forms, and will tum ble upon us and lo rp h y ry ’s works as given by v J ion, m the discourse which he pro- , , . 1 at Golden Throne, and it is prob- crush us w ithout remorse. W hat ra b n e u s am ounts to sixty-oim. lA.rf, « f ,i , ‘ , nounced before the assem ble of th e • , . ‘ able th a t Jennie had never caught there is of apparent friendliness in ro r t\- th r e e of these have been i x j i TA i , SHmts, snows tn<it the fourth , w •, , • , . more th an a passing glim pse of her n atu re we m ake out of our wishes, b u rn t or destroyed. P o rp h y ry died v , in tl.A v p .,r ‘4 01 i 71* * Eclogue of \ irgil— “ which is m ade , yet a m other could not have more We th in k she gives us bread. She in tne ^car 304, aged t 1 years. *, . , onz. . up utterances of the Cum ean •* , • , , . v u . e an f . gives us only a stone. We m ake About the year 300 an able attack i 41 I • * • i• . witch, w only a prophetical (lcscriD , 4l o ' 1 beautiful it looked in the calm the bread, If we have an y ; an d we was m ade on the Christian religion i ir* lx i • i - , . , tion of the Savior, and declares . . . m ajesty of death! A fter the first live on fancy. N ature is a hard hv H ieroclesthe president of Bithy- ,, , , • if* i « . th a t lie f>aw in this poem the niir- , .... . . . L. J horror has passed, w hat an awful fact. S he’ll drown us w ithout corn- ma and afterw ard« perfect of Alex- i • xr . , acle of the birth of Jesus of a vir- H e wrote two hooks • al . ,. . , and sweet radiance there is in the pnnetion, if we tu m b le into her andria. against Christianity entitled “Sin- K‘" O he “»xd'tton of sm by preach- everlasting sleep, w hat sublim ity of seas. She never yet performed a cere Discourses to .'he C h ristian s,” ° ^ ’<‘1 i m a word, Jesus repose! The waves of life ceased, m iracle to save life.” . • , | . . . , C hrist announced under th e great in which he m aintained th a t the , . , J and as in a m irror som ething of th e “ And never w ill; if she did, h er < • * • f ,, £ t H character of th e Son of God. And • •> * . , . unseen glory of the universe is tru e glory wonld l>c gone, for then I Scripture is full of contradictions i r ii • *.i i coincident with the alwive rnen- \\ e th u s see th at *: i f witnessed. The im agination can- chaos would reign. N ature is law, and fallacies. *, • * .,* • e tinned frauds is the never refuted f , • not stop with the rigid flesh. It I adm it, and in th a t sense is a hard from the very introduction of , r-i • * •* i *, , , , charge of Lazimus, th a t the Emp- .7, A a. , , , 1 weaves a glorious world from the fact. Sue will not save us; we Chi istianity hv the school of Alex- i • ii i * erot (/Oiistautiiie learned the chris- pregnant silence. m ust save ourselves by the obedi- a n d n a all along the first two cen- *• * • . . tian religion from an E g y p tian : sn d , 1 ’ . W hile Jen n ie was perform ing ence to h er law. If we do not’ obey, tu n es, the new superstition was ,, f , , ... , , ** i i i. • , Hie fact adm itted by Socrates, the i • . h er gentle offices w ithin, the two then the law breaks us; a n d 'it aliiy attacked on all points by , , I t * r n / ecclesiastical historian, th a t th e m iners walked w ithout the cottage, wo„ |d break U()d as q ,]ick)y a „ u q learned, and honest, men. The . , , • cross was found m the tem ple of seeking in fitful conversation an d if there was such a being So God’ Christians m ostly replied hv invect- • i , • , , , . r , nerapis, and claim ed bv his wor- And these j ; , . *, " , , „ the m ighty forms of n atu re some can do no good as against a law o f . lve or pious frauds. r r i i f , shippeis as the proper sym bol of • ... . v . relief from the intense sorrow. n a tu re . God coubl o n |y g(,m> ug charges <»1 fraud and forgery made • . . .. 7 • , their new religion. As an offset to t , ,, . e i e ■ “ W hat should we do in these th ro u g h n atu re as a sort of priest against them have lived up to the , .. , a ll the outrageous frauds of pious , • .• .. . . hours of terrible suffering,” said to n ature, and Tthink we can servo present, time. Like B anquo s ghost n ..i *.. . ( a* ly Christian writers, it is a great W ill, “ w ithout the m ountains an d j oursplves fl|1]y a< w e l|. f()l. wg they will not down. Ail the pic- „ . i. . • * • , , the sea an d sky? They are like a digol)ey nature> Qod c a n ,t p . tures of the fabled .Jesus hear the *. *? i ,, * f i f ... to find th a t no reference w hatever p a rt of us, an d out of th eir vast life a l ) d ) w e obey n a , ghe jg ,)oun. closest fam ily likeness to the In- , , , , . . j- „ . j *i z, , , ias ' >een m ade to C hristians or give us courage an d consolation.” ti[ul of ber og n sp|f „ dm n ( h ristn a, and th e Greek and i • *• •* , *, » P , A ,, 0 * 1 ,* , T C hristianity by th e following an- “ A" d yet, I sometimes question,” oj se(. y()U are what t| Hn Koman Apollo. But had the Jew- eient w riters, whose works still re- said C harlie, is it we th a t give the „ p tb „ ;s , Y„ u are a , h fu| ish text been respected, he would , . . , ,. , roam ing, were w ritten as follows, consolation, or is it really the a „d Iook (||e hrj h , gjde <)f nave been pictured as bideoualy m •, , „ I in - • ; I h,1° w,)o wrote about 40 A. D. m ountains an d the sea? Are they tbjngg. j m(|8t C))nfegs (hat j am ugly: his visage was so m arred, t , , . „ *i ii-* - Jcsejihus about 40, Seneca 69, f . T f living, in some sense, as we live? down. hearted a t ti an d a , m()st m ore than any m an, and his form P .;, , , n r - , J,1,y the eIcler 79, Diogenes La- more th an the sons of men.” Isaiah . • . f cry out in despair, the world is so 1 j p . n t f iii • , ce rtiu s7 9 . (G eographers) P ausan- m erely reflections of our inw ard ,1 v , o2. 14. But this would have spoiled • w , , m , • . ZII. •; ureary to me, and life seems such a , >as and *MeIaa(X)ut /9. (H isto ria n s) ents of the church and n u, r t » 7 uW pitiable failure. I t w ouldn’t help , die ornam f . r . . . ()-C u rtiu s R ufus, Lucius A F lo iu s, r . , I believe they are actu ally liv- *. 4 , .. / been fatal to the fair sex, the m ain- * „ ., , * the m atter for me to believe m , * i * ing, said W ill, who had some- ,1 T n , : „ i , R a • , stay and w illing slave to its per- 4l ? ... , ,, a God. J think if there is one he - . , . . .... who wrote between 79 and 141 A thing of the poet s insight as well u , , doctrines. W ho could be- .* n • , ? / , . . 5 has proved an a rra n t hum bug, for nicious .. . D. Besides these we have seven Iieve m an uglv son of God? “ 1 am , n , . . as the practical aetent,he outlook of be ,e(s , h; ,0 b aJ ¡n a ,, , i . , , e wel1 known poets who wrote be- m odern days. 'contem ptible way. H e does not blaek b u t comely () ye daughters of * ,.... /><> . ,M, . i , .» *, / 1 • j , tween 63 and 9(), who never al- But isn ’t such a belief a m atter - 4 , ... , ! Alm ost alw ays cited by ,i * *, , • .. . , e , . , 0 * 1 . , im prove n a tu re ; and, if he exists, Jerusalem , • *• , ’ . lu<led to th e C h ristian s, a n d th e of pure faith ? And is there any i. . i , preachers as referring to „ * , , .... , . . . . . he only m akes the tragedy more Christian i ’t.riui Tin» ii i • u° ted o rato r O untilian, who was t firist. J h at all the m odern pic- , » . ... , ’ . r more reason for believing in a desperate.” *, t a. . o - born between 40 and 50 A. D., as sp iritu al life in nature, th a n in a * * • • . . , tures of th e so-called Savior are ,, *, c i. , . ,. l m not a n optim ist, in the , e . . , well as ttie famous astronom er and G o d ;’ asked C harlie, who, in his .,„,j fll base forgeries is well known hv , , . . . ’ ’ sugar and molasses sense of th at pV,.rv t ; / •* « « G rap h er Ptolem y, never men- revulsion from orthodoxy, was not r i *. , every scholar. 1 ne fam ous pic- .• , .. • *, . . ,. , , ,. . J . *. term . 1 do not believe th a t every* *,lw i i - i *i (,r 1 „ Honed them in theircopious works, disposed to believe in m uch of any- ,, . , . . tu re of him known aa th e “ L o re tta ,” * , • 4, . , . / , , a * J th in g is all right, nor th a t nature . . And in the whole body of Rom an thing either in m an or nature. represents him a« a bouncing young law there is not e x ta n t one word takes care of us, like a loving “ I adm it th a t it is belief sim ply, , T , .. . , father; nor do I see in n a tu re e v i- A frican, and right here it is proper about the C hristians, an d not knowledge,” answ ered \\ ill. , e H . D. B urrows . , dence of a nobler or more powerful to introduce the words of Bishop Yet does not science today reveal ; * *, . T B. W. A rnett in his speech a t th e P re ss F u n d . . . . . . . . / ’ intelligence or will than in man. I a wonderful life in nature? \\ hen , . . w orld’s congress of religions held at n : i « , , , F u Previously Acknowledged........... $40 25 T i m , n t, i • T only recognize in n atu re an over- I read Tyndall, H uxley, D arw in, I 41 . , , , ( hicago, (page 383,) ‘“Luke the he- Dr. A. Slarnan, Lennox 8. I)..... 10 00 , ’ ’ flowing and ab u n d an t life, th at loved physician, was from Cyrena, M • -L Dean, Talent O re................. l oo am am azed a t the magnificence of , , , , . . . . . , m akes order, beauty, .delight, and an A friean by birth If no, by'blood. .......... | « pow’er in which the world seems to .. . .. j , ... T . comfort, if we can only grasp and l.ueiua of Cyreue was an Af- Mr«. Lee Laughlin b irth Yamhill, lo o be co n stan tly revelling. It is eter- * • J , Simon, the father of H. C .G ist,............... “ ..................... » .. .... , . enjoy them by w hat we ourselves n c a n . 25 nal m otion, and it is eternal beauty. , r i . , Rufus and A lexander, was a Cyren- D- A. B ran ch ,. 25 u , *i * • • do. J do not lielieve th a t nature ..................... 50 Science m akes these m ountains hi - , r ¡an. 1. *. watt . . thia black man, a ........“ . ’ - E. L. Totom,.........9n was m ade for us or th a t we are the 4, . . . n a tiv e o f a n A frican c ity , w ho he- Peter Rauch, Silverton................... l m finitely more th an w hat they are to , . . . , . , nuioeiiic e th uiuig io cam e the cross-bearer of the son of A K Olds, McMnnville.. .7 ... .7.. ‘ 20 00 in , g . in m the e universe, to our bare sight, and yet to our bare suprem , . , , .. ,, . which ev erything else m ust bend, God on his way to C alvary. \ Ir«. M.................................................... sight how beautiful! Belief car- 1 .0 0 A m ong the early teachers of - A - n ti C. 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