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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1897)
T H E TORCH O F REASON, S IL V ERTO N , OREGON , T H U R S D A Y , JU L Y 1, *nd so he alw ays acted in a grim and awful way. Such men are trem endous allies for whichever bide they take. fie welcomed the new-comers with a certain stu rd y grace. “ You have passengers, I believe?” ‘ Yes.” said Stockdol liger, “ very pleasant ones too, q u ite pious and devoted. ReffttyT*/ nave been'ecfin1* ed with th eir com pany, or ra th e r his com pany; for I h av en ’t seen me woman, only the m an, but he is one of the saints. He prays every d ay .” - “ W hat is his name, please?” D ru n k a rd ’s Will. I leave to society a ruined c h a ra c ter, a wretched exam ple, and a mem- ory th a t will soon rot. I leave to my parents d uring the rest of th e ir lives, as much sorrow hum anity in a feeble and declining state can sustain. --- - I leave to my 1) rot tiers and sisters HS m uch m ortification and injury as 1 could bring on them . I leave to my wife a broken heart, a life o f wretchedness and sham e, to weep over my prem atu re death. I give and bequeath to each of my children poverty, ignorance and low- character, and the rem em brance th at th eir father was a m onster.— — Selected. “ Gooch— E p h raim Gooch from Scooptown, Maine. I know’ him by reputation, he came from near where I live. He has just built a new steeple to the church. He is an honor to our cause. H e seems W ettstein Taken to Task. to realize the worthlessness of hum an life. I h ard ly ever see him smile. I feel as if my ship was E ditor T orch of R eason - blest w hile he was on board. He is In the T orch of Ju n e 10, Mr. in his cabin now, reading the Bible. W ettstein takes agnostics to task He doesn’t read any other book, for declaring th a t they do not know except a tract now and then. He what becomes of us after we die. has some beautiful tracts. They The reasoning was so queer th a t are full of the spirit of the gospel. it interested me more th an such He proves I hey treat of the sinfulness of m an, a itid e s usually do. o, of the _ awful* _____ conclusively th a t we do not know o f Sabhat h-breaking, in >s of dancing: they adm onish us ' what becomes of ourselves. From to lie m ournful, and sit in sack- this, he argues th at nothing he- eloth and ashes. They have done comes of us which is the opposite me a great d ea lo f good, these tracts °1 w hat he proved, for if we know have. They have penetrated my th a t we are to be an n ih ilated , we soul like the sword of the Lord, and certainly know- what becomes of us H e then shows th a t a m an is an convicted me of my shortcom ings.” “ We would like to see this anim al. From this, he argues th a t paragon: he will he w illing, I sup w hatever happens to an anim al at death, happens to m an. T his is pose, to put in an appearance.” “ I will send for him : he will parallel to the reasoning of the student of logic who argued th a t as edifv you.” m an was an anim al and a horse Soon the cap tain sum m oned his was an anim al, th a t therefore a im m aculate passenger. In a few m a n was a horse. He lays down the proposition moments, the fam iliar form of G o o ch was seen coming up the th at “ those affirm ing m ust prove tru e.” He proves abundently that hatchw ay: he bad a Bible in one at death the body disintegrates but b ind, and was hum m ing the good th at does not prove what becomes old melody, “ H ark! from the tombs of the life, the power th a t made the a doleful sound.” W ith a most organism and intelligent or even a obsequious how and im perturbable live being. The most th a t he proves is th a t In* doesn’t know. But in air, he greeted his old acquaintances stead of saying so as the agnostic of Golden Th rone. does, he boldly affirms th a t he does know a n d th at this power or life is C h a p t e r x x i ii . an n ih ilated as well as the carcass. “ 1 begin to th in k th a t Gooch is if e not 8tick to his proposition ose affirm ing m ust prove the devil him self,” said C harlie as ' “ tho8 tru c .” 1 be problem s of electricity, he looked at him . “ It m ay he of m agnetism , of life are y»*t open harder work than wre im agine to questions. No one knowetii whence h ^ a k through the net he has they come nor w hither they goeth. Is the m agnetism annihilated woven.” Gooch advanced with deliberate when we dem agnetize a w atch? It has disappeared. The watch weighs ” ep. H p ¿¡d n<>t seem surprised just as m uch after the operation. "r afraid to meet his old associates The most th a t we can prove is He was evidently prepared for any ^hat the wafch is demagnetized, emergency. prove w hat becomes o f the “ We ar« not verv glad tn nee you, " ’a« nP,!Brn P ^ v e th a t the I I c rnnfoco ♦ » • i i- * m agnetism is an n ih ilated is an- o n fe r, said C harlie. “ Never- other thing I t in ea»y t o deelarel heless, we have been very anxious th a t the m«»on is made of green to overhaul this ship. We care f'heese, but to prove th at it is or tnore for your com pany than for th at it isn’t is another thing. Mr. .'<»u. There is a lady on board, I M ettstein proves the annihilation believe.” ’ of the body as such. Let him es,” said the deacon, unabash- Pr°ve the an n ih ilatio n of the power *d. which moved the bodv aliout. “We will take her hack with us, Proving th a t it has disappeared, •<nd you can go to C alcutta as fast does not prove th a t it has been an nihilated. Respectfully, (TO BE OONTINUED.) I 1897. W. 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