THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1897.
The Exodus,
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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,
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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
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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
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40 years in the wilderness, and in tecedent to the pronoun “he,” there !
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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