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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1897)
< THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1897. T alm age on Jo n ah . “Oh, what a wretch! Well your Who are the pure in heart? •‘I ought to. You know that you Must not the test of purity of heart have got to die, and you ought to blood will not rest upon my soul. Rev. I)r. Talmage lec’ured in r u = not \ ir i I have tried to convert you. You be , purity of e life ? Has Herbert be prepared ’ “I am prepared, if I must die. reject the mercy of your savior, Rockford, 111., a few days ago. Spencer’s life been without re While there he was interviewed by proach? Has a word ever been But I uni innocent; and, if you and now you must perish.” of the Morning * p , „.i- . « . „ , . “I think the saviour w von talk a representative 1 , , u b lish ed a g a in s t his in te g rity or really care for my welfare, you will of the learned honor? Is the h , fact , , that , . . he is a man alwuit is a humbug,” said little Pete Star, who inquired 1 help to save me.” divine if he believed in Jonah. The of great intellectual ability and at- “There is no doubt of your guilt. desperately. has become the f leading * tainments ♦ . evu “ What do you mean, you villian question What I want you to do is to repent. 1 . any idenee against his one of the dav since Dr; Lvnian „i , • There is no chance for you in this you?” shouted the deacon, almost . . , . J , moral - - character? - --------- Does greatness Abbott, of P lym outh church, treated world; but I would like to have you striking him in his wrath. ’ . 7 . . of mind afford a presumption of ? “Why, you say that Christ is this story in a mirthful wav in his moral impurity? Were Humboldt, ,,o to glory for your own sake, and because it will add another shining Almighty, that he is in heaven and pulpit, and said this hook is the Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, Clifford, rules everything, and that he is Pickwich Papers of the Bible. L ew e s, George Eliot and Harriet jewel 4o my crown.” But Talmage: “ I believe in the wants to make “Then yqji expect to show off in good and Martineau deficient in moral purity? inspiration of every part of the Why don’t the next world and wear tine everybody happy. Must we suppose that the ignorant Bible.” Then the doctor told his I have suf clothes,” said Pete. “ Well I don’t he do it then? lout who imagines that when interlocutor that God would not care for your company, there are fered, and thousands have suffered; religious emotion is aroused h ■ is in have protected anything which was lots of good folks going the other and vet what has he done? I am communion with God, is more pure false, or which unrepresented him. •„ heart i .... « belter ■ . see God ,, , to be hung, though I am as inno way, and I guess I ’ll go too.” ’ , in and able to “ It has withstood the bombard than the great thinker whose whole “ What a reprobate, a child of the cent as the babe unborn. If he is devil indeed! Yet, bad as you are, in heaven over us on a throne, why ment of the centuries, and not a life is devoted to high thought? Is don’t he help, why does he let me splinter has been torn from it.” it against a man or woman to be a Christ died to save you.” That settles the questions with “Who is thisChrist that you talk perish? When he shows himself thinker and a scholar? If so, we a zealot. The logic also proves the ' >n l>egin . • at once to . close , about? What can he do for me?” as a real helper in my trouble, then * i may as well “He is the Almighty God. He I’ll believe as I believe in Charlie, divinitv of the Koran, the Vedas our schools and preach a gospel of cameand dwelt among us. lie was who’s going to stand by me. If and still more forcibly the Zend ignorance. Many religionists, in these Avesta, for the two latter of crucified and buried, and arose Christ is God, I must say that he cluding Methodists, have believed have an antiquity greater than again and is now in heaven, the is a very shiftless one. I’ll take that the less education a man had any portion of the bible. Lord of all. If you believe on him my chances with men.” the better fitted he was to preach Though the bible vae « rented |he wor(, of UoJ. for (hen Pete shook violently and clenched he will save you.” “ Will he prevent me from being his fists as he uttered this fur from the hands of Catholics, who thoughts would not get mixed up hung.” ious speech. He seemed to speak, insisted thev knew how the book with God’s thoughts, and he could ~ ... of e “Oh, no, he will wash your sins for the moment, more as a man was made, ’ and declared it improper ' r give his hearers the “ ,, pure nnlk in the hands of laymen; w u hen w riters •< • i i away, and you will be white as than as a boy, he was so wrought to he placed 1 j > the word.” » \\ indulge • such language as is above quoted . i wool, and reign with him in glory.” upon by the intensity of his passion. and though 6 the most . . learned schol- in “ Well, if it makes no difference At any rate, he confounded tin* ars have shown it is of com para they ought to show’ us that they to him, I wish he would save me deacon, who took his Bible and in tively modern origin, with forged have some rational or consistent now from hanging. I have com continently departed, saying to accessories to strengthen a belief theory in mind, else we are left to mitted no murder. If Christ is good himself, “ Well, I am glad he’* in its antiquity, vet the hook is conclude that they are confused in clung to as a sacred fetich. as you say, and ha* the power, why going to be hung.” thought or are pandering to Talmage says he and Abbott ignorance. doesn’t he help meat once? I don’t B. F. U. Burnham found no success in his were seated together for three years Ixilieve in putting things off until search for the strange wanderer. in school, and were for a time as Nettie A. Old’s Lecture Dates. one’s dead.” Every part of the surrounding Dr. “Oli, Christ saves you from hell- country was carefully examined. sociated in the ministry. Albany.......................... March 3-4 tire. He won’t save •/ you from There was nothing to vouch f >r the Abbot t is deemed a level-headed man Salem............................ . . “ 7-8 by all who know him. The other hanging.” story of Pete, except the vague tes Independence................. . “ 9 “Of what use is he then? Il’s timony of a couple of town women is ; i l.p’y Dr. Talmage, and that is McMinnville................. . “ 13 hanging that I want to be saved on the outskirts of the eamp, who all it is neces-ary to say of him, but from. That’s a real thing, while thought they saw such a man pass it is wonderful to note how in Press Fund • timately he is associated with the hell-lire is sort of guess-work.” by just toward evening. If there Previously A cknow ledged . <82 00 “Oue shouldn’t reason thus. were any tramp of the sort, the Creator and Ruler of the universe, Jo h n 1 liainond, C o b u rg ........ .......... .......... 1 00 It is wicked. You must submit. earth assuredly must have swal and how ready he is to tell “all J o h n E Jo h n so n , V a le ...................... 1 00 M inerva Jo h n so n “ ....................... 1 (X) It may be best for you to be hung. lowed him up; for not a trace of about God,” and his plans in regard J S O degard, C rescent C ity, C a l. . . 50 to man. The boy on the witness It may bring you to conviction, and him was discoverable. P C Mosier, H om er, III .................. 1 00 stand told what the bog thought on save you from the worm that never “ I guess it’s the hoy’s invention,” T o ta l.............................................. <86 60 dies. Let me read you some said Paddie. “It would he a good a certain occasion, and was as cer tain he was correct as is Talmage scripture.” story, if we could only prove it.” We give the T orch of R eason when he voices the will and counsel “I don’t want any scripture. I and The Freethought Magazine “Oh yes, we could easily shove don’t think it will be comforting, the crime off on to him, if we could of God.—Progressive Thinker. for one year for the small sum of $1.75. Now’ is the time to sub what I have heard of it.” The Gospel of Ignorance. only prove his exiatence. We’d scribe. “It’s very comforting, if you are make him a vicarious sacrifice,” “ It is not the richly-endowed and - in theright spirit. Hear this: Man said Jimmy. highly-trained intellect, but the is born in sin, he is shapen in “ Well, I shall do the best I can pure heart, that enables its pos- W ailfGu flfl Id ea iniquity; the smoke of his torments with the story,” said Charlie. “I « K , « r "!?7* ascendeth up forever and ever; if Ixdieve it’s true; and there is some »essorto see God. It is not the ye hate not father and mother, slight evidence. Mollie and Libhie man who has made the circle of the ____ . ____ ]....... brother and sister, ye cannot lie w’ill testify they saw' some such sciences, hut the man whose eye is my disciple; he lifted up his eyes in a cuss. I’ll give ’em a ten-dollar single, whose whole Ixxly is full of hell; if ye do not believe, ye shall bill to make the most of it without light. Hence it is that, while the supreme being is—to millions of be damned.” lying. Justice has to he liought people who are vastly inferior to “Oh, stop those horrid words. I sometimes, you know; and truth can’t bear them. They will make is so slow that we must purchase a the class of which Mr. Herbert Spencer may he taken as a type— • Caveat«, and Trade-Mark* obtained and all Pat me insane.” en t buimes* conducted for M O D E R A T E F e e s . ticket now and then, anil put her the Ever-present, with whom they • •and O ur O f f ic e is O p p o s it e U . S . P a t e n t O ffic e “These are the words of inspira we cans«- ire patent in less time »har, those on hoard the train.” J are permitted to hold daily converse, 'remote from Washington. tion.” said the deacon: “you should » Send model, drawing or photo., with de»crip-i “ How are you going to manage?” to the rejoicing of their hearts, He •tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free o f roll them as a sweet morsel under said Jimmy. ¡charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured, J • A P a h r m l e t , “ Hew to Obtain Patents,” withi is to those intellectual giants ‘the your tongue.” “You might put in a plea of •cost o f same in the U. S. and foreign countries' , “I do wish you would go. I shall jurisdiction when you are in the unknown and the unknowable,’ or ¡sent free. Address, almost long for hanging, if you tiger’s clutch.” at the most a mere intellectual ah- ♦ C .A .S N O W & C O J O rr . P a t e n t O f f ic e , W a s m in s t o n . d . C keep up this clatter.” straction”—Toronto Globe. To Be C ontinued.