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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1897)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1897. The Exodus, 1 T.i__ liT rain, river beds without-waterr C spring brings no bloom, the autumn Exodus 12:37 says: “And the no harvest. And so the whole re children of Israel journeyed from gion appears as if heated by sub Raineses to Succoth” ; but Exodus terranean fires and shattered by the 13:17-18 denies the above account, mighty hammers of the terrible for these verses plainly state that Titans that toil in smoke and tire “God led the people about through beneath.” the way of the wilderness of the Ami we are asked to believe that Red sea for fear that the Israelites this desert sustained 3,000,000 peo would meet the Philistines and re ple with their Hocks and herds for turn back to Egypt. 40 years! Is it possible that any This exodus story bears the ear sane person can believe such a marks of two different writers and monstrous absurdity? All the na in thi3 respect is similar to the ex tions of Europe could not at the ploded and silly story of the deluge. ¡»resent day support such a vast Have to tak e o u r word for it when we say we have a b e tte r However, we will now follow the number of people with their Hocks and larger stock of new goods th a n ever before for th e m e r chandise is here to speak for itself and for us. Of course poor deluded wretches on the way and herds in such a desert for 40 we d o n ’t m ean th a t you would th in k o u r ads deceptive, for to Canaan through the burning years. No wonder the poor Israel we have alw ays endeavored to m ake them the opposite . . desert of Sinai. First it must be ites murmured at Moses; no won borne in mind that God had prom der they wished to return to the ised to Abraham that his se e d , fertile banks of the Nile and enjoy meaning the Israelites, should be once again the leeks, ami the mel come as numerous as the sands ons, and the flesh-pots of Egypt, 1 upon the seashore for multitude, poor deluded wretches! T hink how ever th a t we were o v er-en th u siastic. Y ou’ll e n and that after a sojourn of 400 Ex. 16:13-14 says that God sent th u se, too, w hen you see th e new goods. H o n estly , we are years in Egypt they should inhabit them quails and bread from heaven very proud of o u r stock and believe th e styles will please you, and th e prices in te re st you. Y ours to ¡»lease . . . . a land Rowing with milk and for the people to eat, but I look in honey. It is needless to remark vain through ail the succeeding that not one of these promises, chapters for a storm of hay and either to Abraham or to his seed oats for t he horses, cattle and sheep. Corner Main and Water Streets (the Israelites) were ever kept or Rev. March says there is no ver Silverton, Oregon. fulfilled. Not more than two per dure there, no crops, no food for sons out of a total of about 3,000,- man or beast, and no water. If is so, will some kind Christian 000 which left Egypt entered the this brother tell us how these herds and promised land. flocks survived a 40-year fast? This Numbers 14:29 says: “Your car part of this wonderful story, like casses shall fall in the wilderness all other works of fiction, legend, or and all that were numbered of you,” romance, closes with the death of hero. Deuteronomy 34:5-6: etc.; verse 30—“Save Caleb, son of the “So Moses, the servant of the Lord, Jephunneh, and .Joshua, the son of died; and he buried him, but no Nun. man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.” But as there is no an The Bible savs the Israelites were * 40 years in the wilderness, and in tecedent to the pronoun “he,” there ! DEALER IN is no knowing who “he” was. order to show what kind of a coun II. I). BURROWS. Chemicals, Drugs, Medicine, Toilet Articles, Perfumery try this desert is, I quote from ( to be continued ? “Home Life in the Bible,” by Rev. and Soaps, Stationary, Patent Medicines, Paints Daniel March, I).I). Rev. March Theological Anarchy. and Oils, Combs and Brushes, Etc. says he traveled over the identical ground which Moses and the Israel The Christian Statesman, of SILVERTON, OREGON. ites did, and the following is what March 13, says that “Sabbath breakers are anarchists at heart.” he writes: “That bare, burning, By “Sabbath breakers” it means homeless region remains without all who do not keep Sunday. essential change in its natural fea “Anarchists at heart” are not tures to this day. The sun was as essentially different from any hot, the sand as dry, the rocks and anarchists. As it is true that “out hills and mountains as desolate, in of the abundance of the heart the - dealers in - mouth speaketh,” it must be true the age of Moses as they are now. that “anarchists of heart” will be To say that this wild, wind blown, anarchists in word and act; and blasted region was once able to re they are therefore to be subjected ceive a sudden immigration of two to the most rigid restraints of the or three millions, and support them law. This is the Statesman’s idea “religious liberty,” by the plain for years in a wandering, homeless of logic of the premises it sets up. Corner Hain and Water Streets life from its own resources, is an , But the question of “Sabbath assumption as much at variance breaking” is purely a theological SILVERTON, ORE. with natural law as with divine one. It is purely a question of the revelation. To adopt such a the ology whether the Statesman is not guilty of “Sabbath break ory the extreme of skepticism in its itself ing.” For whether the Sabbath he SAMUEL AMES JOHN HICKS struggle to break through the metes the seventh or the first day of the and bounds of faith must go over to week, it is a question not determined the extreme of credulity. The great bv human law, but by the word of desert is a world of desolation, a God; and this question is warmly by religionists today. It wild and formless chaos of bare desputed DEALERS IN is a question which theologians earth and hard clay and drifted would be called upon to decide; sand and naked rock; a vast and and these having decided in any horrible waste, swept by hot winds, given ease who were the anarchists, burnt by the sun, torn into strange it would be left for the latter to be A G R IC U L T U R A L IM P L E M E N T S with as such by the civil and savage forms by the tempest, dealt authorities. everywhere aud at all seasons dis I tiis is precisely the regime which Guns, Fishing Tackle, Cutlery, Sporting Goods, Etc., Etc. playing the same aspects—hills prevailed in the Dark Ages. SILVERTON, OREGON. without verdure, storms without I —Sentinel. “ Seeing is Believing ' You Don’t ? You High Í A. WOLF & SON J . !€. H a m m o n d D R U G G IS T C n s ite r & D a v e n p o rt ....GENERAL M ER C H A N D ISE Hicks & Ames H ardw are, Tinw are, Stoves,