T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , JU L Y 8,
The Licensed Preacher.
keep you out o f his pyrotechnical
OLD
works. I have also understood
th a t the m ajor portion of you w ant
My U tile Ones:—I am glad to me to intercede with St. Peter and
know th at you are greatly in terest­ have him present you with a Jew ’s
ed in religious history. Your con­ harp, and wire a set of rooster’s
stan t attendance at the tabernacle wings to your shoulder biades,
gives me great encouragem ent to w hether you are worthy of them or
furnish you with such inform ation not, but 1 will not do so.
I want
as may be of the greatest benefit to to earn the m unificent salary your
you in this life.
parents allow me h u t I cannot lie.
As there are 1000 religions, by
I shall stick to this earth for the
the tim e 1 tell you about them
sim ple reason it is the only earth
and the m illions of men, women
I know of.
And if any of you
and children th at have been mur
know an y th in g about other earth s
dered to foster them upon an ignor
you can now m ake the usual sign
an t and superstitious world, you
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of the order, and we will listen to
w .y possibly exclaim, “Great God. otherw ise,
go still like,and I
why d id you ever allow these cruel wj|| do the theological k n ittin g
evils to he perpetrated in thv
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tim e I finish my labor of love I
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sense far more acceptable u n to 'i
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have absorbed a considerable more
thee than all the wild and cruel re-
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g°°d, sound horse knowledge than
ligions th a t have ever been con-
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the ostensible purpose of th y glorifi- •
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in an eastern paper of late date:
“ There are said to be no bibles in
A FEARFUL RELIGION.
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) b a rite r e , New M exico, and the
th e re is a religious sect in R us­
C hristian E ndeavorers are about to
sia th a t cal 11hemsel ves “ M orelstchi-
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open a depository for them there,
k . . ’ 1 his sect digs a. large, d e e p |Thill
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stale of affairs m ight he
pit hi t h e earth which they fill
thought to indicate th a t S ante Fe i
with straw , h ay and other com­
is a city of unbelievers, but such is -
bustibles, which they set on fire,
not the case.
and when the blaze is the highest
“ A h its nam e indicates, it is the
and the fire the fiercest, from fifty
city of the “ H oly F a ith ” and its
to one hundred of these poor,
population
is
overwhelm ing! v
frenzied creatures will leap into the
C h ristian .”
flames and sacrifice them selves
I will say unto our brethren of
w’hilst their friends stand about
S ante Fe, th a t if they wish to re­
the p it singing in wild and dem on­
m ain C hristians and believers in
iacal strains.
T hus these poor
the bible they had better not study
creatures m ake them selves w illing
it, for ju st as sure as they do study
victims to one of the most horrible
it, the m ajority of them will be­
religious rites th a t was ever invent­
ed by the foul brain of devilish come skeptics and disbelievers in
its divine origin.
m an.
< »wing to our present intellig en t
A brave m an, a kind-hearted
mode of education, it is as difficult
wom an, a tender and merciful
child, would ask why does the God for an up-to-date m an or woman
of this universe allow’ Huch things! to accept the bible as a divinely-
to be enacted in this world?
I inspired book as it is for B rother
o BY
MORTALITY. n
guess God is too m uch engaged in
“ Ik to pass
counting th e h airs of our bead,
the eye o f a bodkin,
and noting the fall of sparrow s and . '
b” ' r " " " ul- >e i
num bering the sands of the sea h" " e8t’
an d noble, and you
shore to tak e cognizance of all the I f ! ‘ '"*Ve d ° " e ' ? Ur d ',t7 ‘° VOUr
in fern al scoundrels and conniving \ h.
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religion
scam ps th a t have from tim e to time ° l" " n a n ity. I his is .h e religion
set up religions on this m undane of this tabernacle.
sphere for the purpose of gain. I
have often said, and I now repeat
of
it.—“ la k e the money out
'igion and all the 1000 wild re­
ligions th a t now encum ber the
earth w’ould go as dead ns the pro-
verbial door nail.” Money, money,
money is the buoy th a t keeps this
and all other joss-houses afloat.
Dear C hildren, I am intelligent
and sm art enough to m ake a fair
living out of this good obi earth
w ithout lying or stealing, hence I
«ell you the tru th on so-called re-
ligious m atter«. Money makes the
church bells ring
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I have quite recently heard th a t
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TALK.
My little pets, I have talked to
you this day as I would not like to
talk to your parents.
When you arrive home they will
no doubt question you regarding
thie drty ’H 8”r mon. Say t<> them
*nat KaVH the Russians thunder;
th *s wil1 PIease them m uch, and
Pe r^iaPH
m a.v raise my salary
a n °th c r thousand or two.
Fvery religious sect w ants the
other religious sect’s th ro at cut,
^ y a «*e all w illing to pay for
n ,urder-
BI(>od, blood, blood
f° “ 0W'
,hF " ake of a " " 'w « " » -
So my little ones, I will use you
as a kind of tongs to take the
som«* o f you expect me to use my clwwtnutg out of the fire,
influence with Old Split-foot, to ' " (C O NTINUED O S PAGE EIG H T.)
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