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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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cially adapte»! for Rugs and Rag
«0 < eiita each, postage 10 cents.
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"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.
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'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
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