TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILV E R T O N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , JU N E 24, LS,»7.
form ulas of worship, was defiance vintage after the earth had been tires and superstition flee." like a
of the church; to die w ithout the devastated by a flood to rid it of thief from the electric light. We
Bible T im es and O ur Tim es.
help of a priest was bell, and to get revelers. Then again the only know how to catalogue those who
courtroom be made an arena where well by the aid of n a tu ra l m edica- good man in a whole city w ouldn’t m isco m p are o u r own day with the
quarrel.“ are settled by duels, as in m ents instead of bv incantations have been there if be had not been night of long ago. If it is not be-
the former times. Perhaps our and miracles, was to be worthy of selfish, and his wife w a -s o fresh cause their deeds are evil, it is bt-
she had to be salted by a shower of cause they have not woke up.«
operas will be transform ed into death.
In the form er tim es it was a brim stone and brine. The m an
Let us adjust our eyes to th e in-
rings for Spanish bull-fights, and
Paine Memorial building become a capital crime to pick up chips to declared to be “ after G od’s own creasing light as the sun m ounts
M ethodist church. M ayhap those bake a pancake on the Sabbath, h eart” stole the wife of bis general tow ard the zenith an«l let our hands
who dare say “ boo” contrary to the arid parents were cornel led to stone and then planned his death in be zealous for the labor of the hour
legalized belief will be throw n to th e ir chiIdren to death for going to battle to get out of the scrape. The and leave the d* ad past to attend
wild beasts in the menagerie for the ^ u,,da>’ school of another th an their wisest man bad enough wives to its own funeral.
No prophet’s
tend
a
cotton
mill.
am usem ent of the orthodox Sunday own RnPe,!*acred sect. I he wife
tom b-stone can block the wheels of
school. All these things m ay come m ust subm it to her husband in all
Compare the people, one and all, p ro g re s s .
.J ohn P rescott G u ild .
to j,ass— but it is improbable.
things, and if she did not,.he could of the present day and thinking
We give the Torch of Reason at d
In the course of civilization’s divorce her by his own blessed will times, with those of the piously
the Freethought Magazine for one
developm ent
the
chronological
^ ie f°r n n r times the Gods credulous past.
order of certain discoveries and in- : dwelt am ong men, the d ev ilstrav el-
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ventions has been, if not providenti- ed about ad libitum . Woman was highest niches of w orthies—W ash Now is the time to subscribe.
al, at least very favorable.
theu a lhir'X <<»r m an’s convenience ington. who freed his country from
In the former times, or three and men were supposed to have been foreign dom inion, or Jo sh u a, who S I L V E R T O N . . .
or four hundred years ago, when ,,,ad(‘ to h«n k t ach o th e r in pieces led an arm y of treacherous and
the church held universal sway, t0 Plea8e the kings who are ordain- bloody invaders?
John Brown,
the m echanical ingenuity of all 'J <d
r’gBt of the priests, who with his feeble hand sought to
christiendom was employed in c o n - Í c o u r s t‘) to sick em on each other, free four million slaves or Francisco
..... A r tis tic W o rk
stru ctin g engines of to rtu re and
aI vvas then the only honorable Pizarro, the chrisi ian h«»gherd, wi.o
death, all to the end th a t priestcraft business, except th a t oí the priest, conquered a peaceable and in
m ight he absolute and perpetual. wh°®e P,i,,c iPle was to procure dustrious nation to make him self WJien you want a....
The clergy, for th eir holiness, held ^’°d s blessing upon wholesale the richest m an who ever vexed
G ood S m o o th S h a v e
the p aten t on knowledge, and it was hum an butchery. Then peaceful the ea rth ?
W ho was the best Or a F irst-C lass........
sin to know an y th in g they d id n ’t 8Cience (w hat there was of it) whs preacher, Peter the herm it who
H a ir - C u t
deign to teach. If some one u s e d ¡cu Bivat« <1 by the herm its of the hounded all Europe on to the
C A L L ON-
his skill w ithout leave from the ' m onasteri<‘8 a ”d m ountains who crusades, or Theadore Parker who
E. E. T A Y L O R .
saint-factory, whatever he m ade were left alonM because they were proclaim ed a relegion of hum anity?
was labeled the works of the devil, th o u gh t to b e good for nothing else, W hat orator should woman love to
O O O O O
and the fabricator of an y th in g new Fa,l)ine was a frequent visitor be- listen to, St. Paul, the old bach who j S ilverton , - ...............................O
- -
r e «; on
and useful to the masses was sent caUFe 80 n ian y WPre engaged in declared “ wives be obedient unto
b y a rough rout to his alleged each o ,b er’s destruction (all for your husbands,” or C<d. Ingeisoll S i | v £ p { ( ) f |
m aster.
God e sake) th a t not enough were who a<Ivocaic> “ liberty f«»r man, j
If, in the good old days of the ^*‘ft at home to till th eso il. Disease woman and child?” W ho was tin
08221876 •
L IV E R Y
inquisition, the steam engine had
HWay, and the better woman, R abab, the harlot,
been invented and the power of Pe s,ibence th a t
followed holy who protected the spies of th een e n n
FEED AN D
electricity had been discovered and P'igrim ages to sinks of death were of her country, or Joan of Arc, who
controle«!, these m ighty appliances reM<,,(b‘d as invitations of Jesus to led her n atio n ’s arm y to establish
SALE S TA B LE
instead of being the servants of m e n ¡call those to his arm s who had got her lawful king? W ho acted m ».-t
Cor. W a te r and L e w is
a t large would have m inistered to ^(>o good to be wearied by longer like a hero and a m an, Onesim us
S treets.
the fury of fanatic and fraudulent rem abiing in this stinking world, the slave, who sneaked back to his
monsters, who in the nam e of the * r u ^e ^ ,en was— the more filth m aster because he was told to by
Rigs and Saddle H orses alw ays
storied Savior th a t brake not the I be more faith, and the odor of a m inister of C hrist, or Toiisaint on Double
band a t th e low est prices. A corral
bruised reed nor quenched the ’ sa n c ,^«v b ad no affinity with scent- L’O verture, who led a revolution connected w ith th e barn for loose sto rk .
In fo rm a tio n regarding any kind of
sm oking flax, would have used ■ed 8oaP.
and fought to free him self a n d stock p rom ptly atten d e d to,’ by person
r le tte r. H orses Bearded and Fed on
these factors of in d u stry and in-
In the form er times the father of fellow
slaves
from
C hristian o reasonable
term s.
telligenceonly to to rtu re and destroy the faithful was on«1 who got crazv thraldom ? W hich is the better
whoever undertook to he too <>n religion
and undertook
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„ way, Hie ancient account of pack-
H A R D E S TY & MOODY.
rationalistic i. e. did not take the slau g h ter his own son ami bake ing a go«l-box about on two poles,
p riest’s dictum for divine tru th .
bun as a supper for bis bloothirsly or the modern m ethod of building
In the form er times every folly a"d flesh-hungry God; and the fakir a railroad and riding in a palace
th a t is known to m a n took some who jewed Ids brother out of his in- car? W hich is the best style of an-
sacre<l name ami filled the world beritance, this sam e God selected niv«*rsary, the sacred barbecue of
with fury; every incident that was to populate bis holy land with a »heold Jerusalem , or the Colum bian
colore«! w ith “ P E R F E C T IO N ”
not understood was an omen of peculiar people whose chief record Exposition at Chicago?,
Dyes will m ake beautiful C ar
som ething aw ful; every fact was is that of killing the natives, ap-
No. The form er times were not
p e ts and Rugs, an d , unlike
legarded a s a lie, an«l every lie was propriating th e ir wives and ador- better than these, nor are these
o th e r dyes, th e colors obtained
will not wash o u t o r fade.
regarded as indisputable tru th ; mg their idols; afterw ard crucifying times so good as those which are to
They are sim ple and econom
reality was cursed as devilish and their own prince for calling them come.
Today is better than yester-
ical to use, and th e new “ P e r
the impossible was worshiped as to repentance.
day, yesterday better than year
fection’ jtto n Dyes a re esp e
divine.
In the former tim es th e meekest Before Bist, tomorrow b e t'e r than
cially adapted for Rugs and Rag
In the former times, to inquire m an w asone who com m itted m u rd er today, and year after next will be
C arp et m aking.
into the principles of nature, instead when a prince of Egypt and then better th an next year.
Men are
For Sale By A ll
of accepting the childish tales of ran aw ay to herd sheep t<> save his getting more civil every «lay and
D R U G G IS T S .
tne priests, was not to be thought neck. The on«1 whom God chose to their gods are growing less s a v a g e .
G U IS5 & SON,
«if; to th in k , was sin; to doubt, was be king of his people «lid not know Bve and bye hell will freeze over
I
W holesale A gents.
to be dam ned. To regard things enough to find stray mules, and and God will become s«> full of
as they are instead of as they were the general who raided the wicked glee
will go skating on the ice
S IL V E R T O N .
- •
OREQON.
said to be by the church was in- P hilistines got stuck on a harlot w>th the happy young folks who
fidelity; to attem p t to claim the and “ lost both h a ir and eyes.”
will never hear of the W estm inster
( continued from t h ir d page .)
B arber
Shop
Old Rags
u g h i of
in d iv id u a l opinion,
was
In the
form er
to asoo to the state; to wink other- galoot who was
t o o ,, « .is lool down
tim e s 'th e o n ly catechism.
“ perfect in
his
As me,, run
lyanfPft—An IHoa
to am i fro and k •S,’! ! ? , W
8 « « m E S J S S S
in t h e , generation” got d ru n k on the first, knowledge is incrensed, bigotry re-
new lU t«I one thousand Inventions wanted.