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VOL. 1.
SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1897.
TRUTH.
NO. 19.
meant the principle of arbitration
craft cannot change, and in thy when he knows he ¡a cruel enough
as developed l.y Great Britain and
wondrous scales hast weighed the to infict exquisite torments upon
T ruth is like gold in the gulches,
Oft buried deep u n d er th e sod,
the I nited States, which he hoped atom and the star!
him; in short, to punish him for
W hile often the tender-foot searches
would eventually prove, if not I Thou hast founded the true relig- the least faults.
No man upon
For gold on the face of a clod.
a remedy, • a mitigation of the ion. Thou art the very Christ, the eartli can have the least spark of
The color is found on th e surface,
risksof international strife.” Let only saviour of mankind!—Inger love for a God who holds in reserve
Bift if you would find rich er stock,
Go dowu where large nuggets are bu r. us hope that arbitration treaties soli.
eternal, hard, and violent chastise
ied,
will, in the near future, render wars
O rigin of Species.
ments for ninety-nine hundredths
Go down till you find th e bed-rock.
between civilized nations impossible.
of his children.—Jean Meslier.
Many {»eople exam ine th e surface,
No one ought to feel surprise at
Steam and electricity, commercial
And p en etrate never w ithin ;
intercourse, international interests, m u c h remaining as'yet unexplained
S e c u la r F lash es.
B ut th e outside is sleek as a beaver,
breadth
of
thought
and
sympathy,
in
regard
to
the
origin
<»f
species
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The h e a rt often dyed deep in sin.
the spirit of respect and and varieties, if he make due allow-
Science makes friends, religion
H ence lives are b u t base co ntradic and
tio n s ;
reciprocity-developed by trade and a nee for our profound ignorance in makes enemies. The one enriches,
And h earts are oft pining in sorrow ;
travel—these will, in the good time regard to the mutual relations of the other impoverishes. The one
To-day w hat m ay seem q u ite angelic
corning, accomplish for mankind the many brings which live around thrives best where the truth is told,
As crim e m ay be looked on tom orrow .
what centuries of faith in theologi- us. Who can explain why one the other where falsehoods are
T ru th , th en , is scattered and buried. ! Cal mysteries have failed to produc-. species ranges widely and is very believed.—Ingersoll.
It is m ixed w ith th e gold in th e glen ;
r
numt rous, and why another allied
B. F. U nderwood .
Go wash all th e d irt from th ese n u g
“It is dangerous to let man per
species
has
a
narrow
range
and
is
gets,
A postrophe to Science,
ceive too distinctly how closely he
And find if you can honest m en.
rare? Yet these relations are of
For tru th th a t is pure and unvarnished
Thou alone performest the true highest im portance, for they deter- ,i
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same
time
showing
him
his
Is w orthy th e search of th e w ise;
miracle. Thou alone art the worker mine the welfare and, as Ihelieve, i
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Com pare it w ith nuggets and d ia
f
,
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’ ¡greatness.—It is also dangerous to
of
real
wonders.
Thou
knowest
the
the future success and modification i x v-
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m onds,
let
him
see
Ins
greatness
too
much,
circuits of the wind—thou knowest of every inhabitant of this world.
P u re tru th is by far th e liest prize.
‘ whence it cometh and whither it Still less do we k n o w of the mutual without at the same time indicat
One m iner, perhaps, in a m illion
goeth.’’ Fire is thy servant and relations of the innumerable inhab ing his lowliness.—Still more
Will pick up a fortune today,
dangerous is it to leave him in ig
W hile o th ers m ay toil for a lifetim e,
lightning thy messenger!
itants of the world during the many
Y et delve in the very sam e way.
Thou art the great philanthro past geological epochs in its history. norance upon both subjects.—On
Ami yet ’lis by toiling we find th e m —
pist. I hou hast freed the slave Although much remains obscure the contrary, it is of the greatest
T hese nuggets we so much d esire;
and civilized the master. Thou and will long remain obscure, I can advantage to give him a clear
’Tis only by working unceasing
notion of both.’’— Pascal.
bast taught men to enchain, not. entertain n o d o u b t, after the most
W e m anage to clim b up still higher.
Nothing appears to be really
his fellow man, but the forces of deliberate study and dispassionate
C h ris tia n ity an d W ar.
nature—forces that have no hacks judgment of which I am capable, durable, eternal, and worthy of the
The Marquis of Dufferin, n«»w re to be scarred, no limbs for chains that the view which most natural name of a principle save matter
tired from the British diplomatic to chili and eat—forces that never ists until recently entertained, and only. Matter, as the absolute, in
service after labors of some fifty know fatigue, forces that shed no which I formerly entertained— cludes within itself all forms and
years, has a rather pessimistic tears, forces that have no hearts to namely, that each species has been dimensions. But the infinity of
philosophy regarding nations. In brea k!
independently created—is errone forms under which m atter appears
Thou art the great physician. ous. I am fully convinced that I’8 not accepted by her from another,
a speech in Belfast, Ireland, re
cently, lie declared as one of the Thy touch hath given sight; thou species a r e not immutable; hut that nor, as it were, only in outward ap
convictions which a lifetime of ob hast made the lame to leap, the those belonging to wha' an- called the pearance; hut she brings forth from
servation in the higest diplomatic dumb to speak, and in the pallid same genera are lineal descendants herself, and where we say there
posts had stamped upon his mind, face thy hand h a th set the rose of of some other and generally extinct is death, there is only the outgoing
I hou art tlie destroyer of j species, in the sanie manner as the towards new life, a loosing of one
that “it is a, vain thing to exjiect ¡health.
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nations to be j u s t or reasonable pain. Thou “ hast given thy be acknowledged varieties of any one union wfiich is the binding into a
when their material interests are at loved sleep,” and wrapt in happy species are the descendants of that new.—-Giordano Bruno.
stake.’ This seasoned old diplomat dreams the nerves of pain,
species. Furthermore, I am con
“Like the Roman emperors, who,
went on to say;
Thou art the perpetual provi- vinced that natural selection has intoxicated by their power, at
“Anot her conviction which has been dence of man—builder of homes, been the most important, hut not length regarded themselves as
borne in upon me is this, that in preserver
of
love and life! the exclusive, means of rnodifica- demigods, the ruler of our planet be
spiteofChristianity and civilization, Thou gavest us the plow and loom, tion.—Darwin,
lieves that the brute animal sub
iu spite of humanitarian philos- a,,d thou hast fed and clothed the
jected to his will has nothing in
ophies, the triumphs of scientific «’orid!
Impossible to Love God.
¡common with his own nature. The
knowledge, in spite of the lessons of
I bou art the teacher of every
If I take my ideas of God from affinity of the ape disturbs and
history and the hitter experiences v*r’tue, the enemy of every vice, dis- theology, God shows himself to me humbles him; it is not enough for
of the more recent past, force and c°verer of every fact. Thou hast in such a light as to repel love, him to l>e the king of animals, but
not right is still the dominant
the true basis of morals—
—the The devotees who tell us that they he will also have it that an impass
factor in human affairs and that 0I*g^n and office of conscience, love their God sincerely, are either able gulf separates him from his
no nation’s independence or pos- Thou hast revealed the nature of oh- liars or fords who see their God in subjects, and, turning his back
sessions are safe for a moment dgation, and hast taught that jus- profile; it is impossible to love a upon the earth, he flies with his
unlesM she can guard them with her ti^e is the highest form of love. l>eing, the thought of whom tends threatened majesty into the cloudy
Thou hast shown that even self-love, to excite terror, and whose judg- sphere of a special “Human king^-
<>wn right hand.”
W hat a reply are these words to Kuided by intelligence, embraces ments make us tremble. How can dom.” But anatomy, like those
the claims and pretensions of the " ith loving arrn* the human race. we face without frar, a God whom slaves who ___________
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followed the conqueror’s
eulogists of Christianity as a divine Thou hast slain the monsters of we suppose sufficient barbarous to car crying o u t ‘remember that thou
system which has radically trans- bUPerptition, and thou hast given to wish to damn us forever? Let art a Mani’ disturbs him in his
formed the nations that have adopted nian fhH one inspired book. Thou them not speak to us of a filial or self-admiration, and reminds him
it! The Marquis said that a “con- haKt ,he re^°rds «f the rocks, respectful fear mingled with love, of that visible and tangible reality
solatory idea had lately dawned wrlttPn l,y wind and wave, by frost which men should have for their which unites him with the animal
upon the horizon,’* by which he and bre records that even priest- God. A son can not love his father world.”—Broca.
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