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
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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
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considered so effective as to he -Up-
reflecting all its sadness, and yet its brightest result-?”
zealous th an clever, IWCW
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being originally pagan oracles.)
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l’inally it was from a p o e m o f the
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\\ 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-
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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
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tiring i t \ her disposition th at she after all, they are but bare, rocky
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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.
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beautiful it looked in the calm the bread, If we have an y ; an d we was m ade on the Christian religion
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tion of the Savior, and declares
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m ajesty of death! A fter the first live on fancy. N ature is a hard hv H ieroclesthe president of Bithy- ,, , ,
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horror has passed, w hat an awful fact. S he’ll drown us w ithout corn- ma and afterw ard« perfect of Alex-
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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,”
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repose! The waves of life ceased, m iracle to save life.”
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unseen glory of the universe is tru e glory wonld l>c gone, for then I Scripture is full of contradictions
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witnessed. The im agination can- chaos would reign. N ature is law, and fallacies.
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weaves a glorious world from the fact. Sue will not save us; we Chi istianity hv the school of Alex-
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pregnant silence.
m ust save ourselves by the obedi- a n d n a all along the first two cen- *•
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h er gentle offices w ithin, the two then the law breaks us; a n d 'it aliiy attacked on all points by
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m iners walked w ithout the cottage, wo„ |d break U()d as q ,]ick)y a „ u q learned, and honest, men.
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seeking in fitful conversation an d if there was such a being So God’ Christians m ostly replied hv invect-
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n a tu re . God coubl o n |y g(,m> ug charges <»1 fraud and forgery made
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hours of terrible suffering,” said to n ature, and Tthink we can servo present, time. Like B anquo s ghost n ..i
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W ill, “ w ithout the m ountains an d j oursplves fl|1]y a< w e l|. f()l.
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the sea an d sky? They are like a digol)ey nature> Qod c a n ,t p .
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p a rt of us, an d out of th eir vast life a l ) d ) w e obey n a ,
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“ 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 ,
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fu| ish text been respected, he would
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consolation, or is it really the a „d Iook
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more th an the sons of men.” Isaiah
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cry out in despair, the world is so
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has proved an a rra n t hum bug, for nicious
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Iieve m an uglv son of God? “ 1 am , n ,
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lu<led to th e C h ristian s, a n d th e
of pure faith ? And is there any i.
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he only m akes the tragedy more Christian
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sp iritu al life in nature, th a n in a
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G o d ;’ asked C harlie, who, in his
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base forgeries is well known hv
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takes care of us, like a loving
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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. ,
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dence of a nobler or more powerful to introduce the words of Bishop
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intelligence or will than in man. I
a wonderful life in nature? \\ hen
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comfort, if we can only grasp and l.ueiua of Cyreue was an Af- Mr«. Lee Laughlin b irth Yamhill, lo o
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was m ade for us or th a t we are the
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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
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our bare sight, and yet to our bare suprem
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sight how beautiful! Belief car-
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