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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
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u = not
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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-
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“I think the saviour w
von talk a representative
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,
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
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. evu
“ What do you mean, you villian question
What I want you to do is to repent.
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any
idenee against his
one
of
the
dav
since
Dr;
Lvnian
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There is no chance for you in this you?” shouted the deacon, almost . . ,
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, moral
- - character?
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Abbott,
of
P
lym
outh
church,
treated
world; but I would like to have you striking him in his wrath.
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. 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
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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
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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
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“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
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away, and you will be white as than as a boy, he was so wrought to he placed
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indulge
• such language as is above quoted
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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................. . “
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“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................. . “
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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
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“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 ........ ..........
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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. . .
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to
man.
The
boy
on
the
witness
It may bring you to conviction, and him was discoverable.
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stand
told
what
the
bog
thought
on
save you from the worm that never
“ I guess it’s the hoy’s invention,”
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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
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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
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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.