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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1897)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , JU L Y 8, 1897. preservation of justice; aud yet how ers. I will not in a short article though Moses and Aaron had work- N, J s r m a n , J . H . Lyons. often it hecon ea the upholder of op- like thia have space to say in detail ed it over once. Then they brought pression. and the h eart sinks be- w hat I would like to about thia re- forth the frogs, and the m agicians JERMAN & LYONS, neath its blow. I will follow’ th is m arkable m an. I will only give a ‘lid the same, and as Pe-k says, tin y P A IN T E R S . man, until he is compelled to yield few instances and pass on to the were bigger frogs and better jum pers bis victim; and, if he injures her, next. W hile in Rome at one tim e th an Moses and Aaron made. Now House, sign and carriage naint- then I will kill him. Do you h ear th a t, he was accused of treason; at th e ?. P ai ‘ w hat I would like to have some aper-hanging and interior booch? You shall not escape me, trial the accuser came forw ard with one explain is this, why is it th a t decora,ion coration a specialty. C harges , reasonable \\ iirlr (mil ,'u „tA.i.J though you sail round the whole a roll of parchm ent in his h an d upon ave none of these wonderful reasonable. Work guaranteed. globe. She shall be m ine, for she which the accusation was supposed perform ances now adays; the laws is my life. I f you touch her, I will to have been w ritten, but when it of nature are the sam e to-day as S IL V E R T O N ... sheathe th is knife in your h eart, was unrolled it was a blank peice they a I wa \s were. Irenaeus affirms \ ou cannot alw ays be as safe as of paper; not a word nor sentence thai all tru e disciples of C hrist you are now. ou can n o t alw ays nor ch aracter of any kind was on w rought m iracles, cast out devils, -find fools and bigots to defend you it. The accuser had probably pick- and had knowlege of future events. aud flout justice.” ed up the wrong roll. On another ..... A rtistic Work But we hear of nothing of the kind “ I shall pray for you,” said the occasion when he was a hundred to-day. W hat is w long? Are there ------- deacon. “ I »ee th at you are in a years old, he was again throw n into no tru e disciples now, or have they When you w an t a .... very bad state of m ind. I wish prison at Rome. One of the pria- lost faith in the m iracle hallucina- Good S m o o th S h a v e you would read this trac t, ‘let not ioners asked him when he « ould grt tioo? The tru th is this: could Or » F intt-C lass........ your angry passions rise.’ Re- his liberty. “ To-m orrow ” said h e , “ if know all of the wonderful and m y s - H air-C u t in* ml" i the tt xt, blessed are th e it depends upon t h e Judge; th is mo- ¡euous things th a t have been w rit ----CALL ON----- meek, for they shall in h erit the m ent if it depends upon m yself,” and ten and tau g h t by t lie early father», earth .’ I am afraid you will lose to show them th a t he was not fool- m iracles could not he put upon the E. E. T A Y L O R . th at inheritance. However, ‘long ing them he drew himself out of his m ark et to-day for one cent on the ***** as the lam p holds out to burn, th e irons, th e n p u t them back again, dollar, and as the race advances, ! S ilvkkton , ............................ O regon vilest sinner may re tu rn .’ ” W hen summoned before the trib u al and p< ople begin to think and rea- “ \\ hat a sain tly disposition you D om itian w a sso stru c k with th e an- so n fo r them se ves, all system s have,’ said Sockdolliger, “ so soft ^wers of A pollonius th a t lie said, “ I supernatural religions will decline S i l V C r t O n . . . and lam b-like! How gladly _ you acquit ynu of the crime with which and people will only have confi would convert all these poor poor sinners! you are charged, but you must re dence in the real ami n atu ra l. L IV E R Y ( to be continued .) main u n til I have a talk with y o u .” They will then begin to see that the According to the testim ony of Vos- m iraculous birth of christ, hiH res- FEED A N D picus, Eusebius, and M arcellus, Miracles And Miracle W orkers u rrec’ion and ascension, and the SALE S T A B LE th e people of T yana his birthplace m iracles are all outside of the n a t Cor. W ater and Lew is Every system of s u p e rn a tu ra l wor8hiped A pollonius as a god for ural and beyond the lim its of reason S treets. religion with which we have been more ‘^ an it,nr hundred years, and cannot therefore be true acquainted, h as had its m arvels and ^ " r,aP’us in the fifth cen tu ry said —J oei . M. B erry . miracles but like m any o ther of its A pollonius was not so m uch of a Double Rigs and Saddle H orses alw ays on hand a t th e low est prices. A corral silly and fabulous teachings, the ' philosopher as som ething between Notice our ad for our New Song connected w ith th e barn for loose stock. miracles of ch ristain ity are at th e a a "^ H m an, and th a t Philost- Book. 1 hese little books have cost In fo rm atio n regarding any kind of present day fast falling into d is re -1 ra tu s 0UKht to have »ntitled his us much labor and we w ant to sell stock p ro m p tly atten d e d to, by jierson o r le tte r. H orses Boarded am i Fed on pute. People begin to ask, “ did a god of APoil lonius.” “ The De- them . Send for one and write to reasonable term s. i . . . . . ° r i — j _ have a hand in w orking any of these scellt oi Goti u P°n E a rth .” He was your friends about it. m iracles?” W hen we rem em ber wo,'sh iped by both C hrist an , and HARDESTY & MOODY. that the m iraculous is the im possible heathens. M e give the Torch of Reason and and an y th in g w ithin the realm of But a true com parison between the Freethought M agazine for one the possible is no m iracle an d C hrist and other m en who have had year fo r the sm all sunt of $1.50. that m iracles can be w rought only divine honors paid them , and who Now is the tim e to subscribe. in the m inds of the ign o ran t and have worked m iracles, would have those desiring such fabulous silly a tendency to make C h ristian -w eak colored w ith “ P E R F E C T IO N ” teaching, it is imposible for us to in the knees. If those who put so Dyes will m ake Jx-autifui C a r conclude th a t an all-wise infinite much confidence in the m iracles of p ets and Rugs, an d , u n lik e god lias ever been engaged in the C hrist would inform them selves o th e r dyes, th e colors o b tain ed miracle racket. ,hat history gives accounts of bun will not wash o u t o r fade. They are sim ple and econom Many men have claim ed with <1 reds of m iracle workers they would We can furnish th e following books ical to use, and th e new “ P e r gods assistance, to have worked come to understand that none of well bound in cloth ; good p rin t, sta n d a rd fection” 0 >tt >n Dyes are e sp e miracles, but it has been the policy t em were ever performed b y divine sizes, for th e e x trem ely low price of cially adapte»! for Rugs and Rag «0 < eiita each, postage 10 cents. D on’t "t the church to keep the people ig- assistance. Moses and Aar»m were fail to tak e ad v an tag e of th is offer. C arpet m aking. O rigin o f S j i e c i e s .................... C has. D arwin " “rant of any, only those recorded considered expert in this bianch of For Sale By All escent of M a n ..................... “ “ in the new testam en t, because if the business, and they tried to show D F irs t P rin c ip le s............ Ile rlie rt S pencer D R UGG I S i 3. “ “ masses come to know th at th e same P haraoh some of t h e i r slight-of- D ata of E th ic s ................ E m e rso n ’s Essays GUISS »& SON, miracles which C hirst perform ed hand performance»«. P haraoh laugh Barber Shop Old Rags GOOD BOOKS S a rto r R esartu s ............ T hom as C arlyle H istory F rench R evolution “ ‘‘ W holesale A gents. D iscourses of E p ictetu s S I L V E R T O N ...................OREGON. Past ami P re s e n t.......... T hom as C arlyle H y p a tia .................................. C h as. K ingly A utobiography of B enj. F ra n k lin Fifteen Decisive B attles of th e W orld E. C. C reasv T en n y so n ’s Poem s S h elley ’s Poems Longfellow 's Poems I P o p e’s Poem s M ilto n ’s Poem s H o o d 's Poem s B u rn s' Poems R obert B row ning’s Poem s Caveats, and Trade-Mark« obtained and all Pat B y ro n 's Poems ient business conducted for M o d er a te F ees sm all p rin t O ur O ffic e is O f f o s itc U, s . P a ten t O ffice and we canse< ure patent in less time than thkwe S h a k e sp ea re's Poems remote from Washington. sm all p rin t ' Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip i n ’ ’»pen perform ed by m any others; ic y would only have a p ar value 'd h th ereat. Long before the birth f ( hrist and for m an y years after ' ‘ ry co u n try and city had its pro- phets and m iracle workers. The ed at th eir arrogance and super- ^’ition and said, “your hocus-pocus trick« ain t worth a pinch of snuff, over here in Egypt. VV’hv I have some second-class m agicians th at can do an y th in g you can, and not grmraut masses regarded tht m with ««e, because they believed th a t they were assisted by some unseen and mysterious power. will r ow introduce one of the greatest m iracle workers in the "o rld ; Bishop W ait says th a t he " a<i one of the most rem arkable haracters in history. This was Apolloniu». He lived in the tim e t < hrist and performed great wond- lav any claim to divine assistance.” So Moses and Aaron turned all the w aters of E gypt into blood, Now »t don’t say how long they stayed th a t way, n eith er does it say who turned them hack to water again, hut it does say th a t P haraoh’s m agicians turned them into blood A .'dress, also, and as Jo h n Peck save, they JO NES’ BOOK STORE, got a great deal better blood and 291 A ldkk S t . PORTI LAND, m ore of it from th e sam e water, al- • O reg o n . ' tion. H e advise, if patentable or not, free of J charge. 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