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 .
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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.