THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, ORE« ON, THURSDAY, JULY 1
which this part of the lesson was the beet of it. Make restitution for
read, th a t the reader wished to the wrongs you have done the h u t
show the m any infidels present th a t you can, and from this very m om ent
he was justified in h atin g them let your future record he pure and
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perfect .................
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but let this white.
* as it m ay I am sure th at no true
\ on have th e power w ithin your­
Secularist hates him or his God. self t<l do tli'Q fin/l
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„OF UUO auu We nefjt a g We]J
as the benefit of the
do not believe the o th er exists. wjloje worj(j
To us it would be more absurd to
Belief in Jesus is a fraud an d a
believe in «uch a being as this poor-
brothers’ holy book describes; great detrim ent to all, for it not
only furnishes a scape-goat for
thau it would to believe th a t an
wrong doers and helps them to con­
orang-outang lives on the sum it of
tinue in their wrong doing, think
M t Hood.
ing th a t bye and bye they will sad ­
The three thoughts th a t the
dle it all off on some one else, but
preacher wished to im press upon
the principle of the innocent suffer­
the m inds of his hearers were these:
ing for the gu ilty and th at there is
There is no escape from God. There
virtue in mere belief has filled the
is no escape from conscience.
world with hypocrites, d istru st and
There is no escape from our record.
unhappiness.
If there is such a being as a god
we should judge th a t the first is
true, but a god’s existence should
W hen?
first be proven before our friend
has the rig h t to make the state­
W hen have Infidels founded I n ­
ment. Millions of men who have
quisitions to to rtu re men into be­
had as good opportunities for study
lief?
as the average preacher have declar­
\\ hen has Infidelity afllictcd
ed th a t they can find no proof
whatever of such a being, but if m ankind with twelve centuries of
there is such a being we secularists woe, most fitly described as “ The
do not wish to escape him (heror it) Dark Ages?”
W hen has Infidelity carried on
and are perfectly w illing to take
our chances with our C hristian religious wars like the “C rusades?”
brothers who think them selves so
W hen has Infidelity slaughter! d
much more fortunate th an those fifty m illion people as M other
who do not believe.
Church has?
In
regard to conscience, the
\\ hen has Infidels m urdered the
em phatic statem ents th a t we never teachers of our race, as C hristianity
can escape it, were, we believe, a l­ did
H y p atia,
Bruno,
V anini,
together unfounded. How does he Servetus, and m any others?
know? If other a n im a l’s m inds
\\ hen have Infidels vented th eir
perish why should not m an ’s,
spit** upon the dead by digging up
but if conscience does continue it is
and burning th eir bodies?
certain ly wiser for us to keep it
\\ hen have Infidels begun, on
free, th an to tru st to the clensing
power of an y o n e’s blood to m ake it St. B artholom ew ’s Day, and m as­
sacred seventy thousand of their
white after it has become dirty.
fellow-men in one week?
Some of the things that were said
\\ hen have Infidels persecuted
in regard to the escape from our
the Jews?
record were grand and true, and
were purely secular. In fact when
W hen have Infid-ls sold “ In .
our friend left the old bats and owls dulgences?”
of a n tiq u ly and talked modern
When have infidels set up the
common sense we could see the worship of bones, hairs, rustv nails
audience brighten up and we “ w ood f -r I h e t« u e c r o s s .” a n d
thought how grand it would be if o t h e r re lie s?
all public teachers would leave the
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hen have Infidels decried the
old lies and preach living, iip-to- „
t
4.
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date tru th s
H
use of a n e sth e tic s in obstetrical
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cases as “an im pious attem p t to
I here is no escape from our re- escape
the
curse” denounced
cord says th e preacher. W hen it
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against all women in Genesis ill.
in m ade it is made. You c a n ’t
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change in
In other words it can
When have infidels burned holes
not be washed away; but listen to
the absurd paradox. “ T hank God in Q uakers’ tongues, and dragged
the blood of Jesus washes aw ay all old> bedridden women from their
sinsand makes us as white assn o w .” couches and hung them , as witches,
Dear reader, it seems to us th a t ° n the evide«.ceof little children?
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here is the test of the whole con-
troversy between orthodoxy and in-
fidelity. Is what the preacher says
true and is it rig h t?
W ould it not be tru er and better
lor public teachers to say, “ Y our
record m y dear people up to this
moment is m ade. It can never be
changed. You now realize this
fact. \\ hat is past is past. Make
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introduction of stoves, carpets,
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churches?
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insurance, and the setting up of
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lightning rods, as “challenges to
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