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VOL 1.
A Free Thought Hymn.
SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 15, ¡897
NO. 37.
world give to it its m oral ideals.
LITTLE TORCHES.
In the wrong done them justice
The W o rld is N eith er W h o lly
Good Nor
o h ! my bro th er, h e ar me,
and right are violated, hut in their
“ It is well to glory in art, re
W h o lly Bad.
If you would ransom ed !«•
devotion
to
principle
in
the
face
of
ligion and the m arch of C h ristia n
From th e th ra ll of p riestc raft.
Ami m ingle w ith the free.
ity
which has elevated the classes.”
to rtu re and death, m ankind are
George Eliot said that she was
If old-tim e fears enchain thee,
taught by exam ple, tin* loftiest — Bishop Ninde, in a sermon at
(»h^ east them all asid e;
neither
an
optim
ist
nor
a
pessim
ist,
M iddletown, Conn., Ju n e 27.
Let faith in Man su stain th ee,
m orality is inculcated, and the
And Reason be thy guide.
*'ut a tnehorist. It was she who
Yes, dear Bishop, hut renaember-
noblest type of ch aracter is ex
c<mtribute<l the word meliorism to
that the “classes” have been elevat
Why, my bro th er, tell me,
alted.
Dost thou weep and pray ?
our language to express a mean
ed just in proportion as C hristian
W hat is it dost ini|»ell thee
I he great m ass of the m artyrs
between optim ism a n d p e s s im is m .
doctrines have been relegated to the
To cry in wild dism ay
are those uncrowned and unknow n
To a m ythic Saviour
1 he world, as we k now it, is cer
rear. I here has not been a single
Who once, a m an like thee,
to fame. All who have sacrificed
ta in ly not perfect.
Ihe theory
change m ade in the C hristian re
Ami scorning priestly favor,
and suffered for the t r i l l h and for
Was slain on C alvary?
th a t “‘everything is for the best,”
ligion for a t h o u s a n d years except
the good of others, belong to this
Stand up, my b ro th er, firm ly ;
in the sense that all events ami
to lake som ething away from it.
great arm y. Says a writer: “ Cross
W hat h ast thou got to fear?
actions are such as adm it of no im
The more you take away from it,
No C hrist can bear th e burden
ing the ocean in a steam ship, see
the better it becomes.
T hat thou hast got to bear.
provem ent, destroys all distinctions
ing how the ladies ami gentlem en
Erect in conscious m anhood,
between ju st and unjust, between
B e righteous for th e rig h t—
m arch up and down the s ta ’el v deck
right and wrong, and renders im
Disdaining every falsehood,
\Ye were horn in a state of origin
— the men airily pulling th eir al sin; th at is, w ithout an y th in g
Rejoicing in th e light.
possible any rational conception of
— C h a s . J. R a e .
cigars, the ladies c h a t t e r i n g ih 'e ir hut purely n atu ra l gifts and gr 'aces,
morals. On t> e other hand, the
idle gossip, a hundred
people in a slate accursed before God be
theory that the universe is essen
stretched out in easy chairs, read cause we inherited a state of de
We Build.
tially evil, th a t m an is wholly <le
ing novels, sittin g a t table eating base«! and fallen nature which ca n
praved and corrupt, that life is not
not he restored except by some
Is it nothing to free th e mind? worth living, is contrary to general delicious food. I have thought of special a c t o f G«>d.— New York
Is it nothing to civilize m an k in d ? experience, and if com m only be those men down below, a hundred Catholic News, J u n e 30.
If th at he true, then God m ust
Is it nothing to fill the world with lieved to he true, would be the or more, sooty, grim y, black, ig
norant,
feeding
th
e
furnaces,shovel
have dam ned us before he create«!
light, with discovery, with science? paralysis and despair of philan
ing the coal, dragging out ashes, us; the child is horn with an en d
Is it noihing to dignify man and thropy.
doing it night and day, day ami less sentence in the divine pene-
exalt t he intellect ? Is it nothing
H istory, observation, and com
to grope your way into the dreary mon s>*nse unite in declaring th at night, scarce ever having a glimpse ten tiary branded upon his heart.
prisons, the dam p and dropping our world is one in which t h e r e are of the sun. never seeing the glory \\ hat a devlish, nice God he must
dungeons, the d ark and silen t cells both good and evil, right and of- the sea, never w atching the be!
serene moon, seeing nothing but
of superstition, where the souls of wrong, and in which m a n ’s volition
“ W hat moral right has a C hris
men are chained to floors of stone; counts as a factor in helping or these awful fires, now and then tian to put a tem ptation in the wav
only pushing th eir black faces out
to greet them like a ray of light, h im h rin g hum an progress.
A lib
of his fellow -m an? If the contents
of
some
port-hole
to
get
a
little
of the glass which I offer to mv
like the song of a bird, the m u rm u r ertine m ay destroy the peace of a
whiff
of
the
air
lest
they
die—
th
a
t
guest cause him to stum ble, he
of a stream ; to see the dull eves fam ily; a p h ilan th ro p ist m ay add
is
the
history
of
h
u
m
a
n
ity
.”
stum bles over me. 1 am a p artn er
open and grow slowly b rig h t; to t<> the sum total of the happiness
This vivid picture, which illus in his sin .”— Rev. Theodore L.
feel
yourself
grasped by the and comfort of a com m unity; a
Cuyler, I). D., in the Evangelist,
shrunken and unused bands, and ty ra n t m ay bring war, orphanage, trates the inequalities of hum an J u ly 1.
hear yourself th an k ed by a strange ind m isery upon a n atio n ; a wise condition to some extent m ay also
T h a t’s exactly w hat you C hris
serve
to
rem
ind
us
of
the
folly
of
and hollow voice?
tians do when you sit aro u n d the
statesm an, a great ruler, m ay lift a
m
aking
display
or
notoriety
the
N it nothing to conduct these people Io higher conditions by se
com m union table and d rin k liquor
test
of
the
value
of
hum
an
service,
souls g rad u ally into the blessed curing to .them the blessings of
in mem ory of the divine wine
or of ju d g in g men by conventional m aker of Cana. An appetite for
light of «lay— to let them see again prosperity and peace.
stan d ard s of social respectability. liquor is as certain to he formed by
he happ\ fields, the sweet, green
E vidently the true view of man
earth, and hear the everlasting and n a tu re is th a t the world is The m an “ down below” f«*eding d rin k in g grog at the “ L ord’s Sup
music of the waves? Is it nothing neither perfect nor hopeless; that the furnaces does a m ost useful per” as by d rinking th e sam e
to make men wipe ihe dust from things are neither wholly good nor work, and he may he m orally, and m iserable stuff in the foulest b ro th
their swollen knees, the tears from wholly had, hui th a t conditions of even intellectually, above m any of el of San Francisco.
their blanched a nd furr-oved cheeks? hum an life are im perfect and can those who walk the steam er’s
We m ust look forw ard, not be
Is it a sm all thing to reave the be im proved; th a t hu m an ity is in stately «leek, and his service to the
heavens of an in satiate m onster a process of growth which can lie world m ay he far more valuable to hind, lest we he betrayed into the
folly of heathenism .
Lot’s wife
and write upon the eternal dome, accelerated or retarded; th a t c h a r m illions who, in however hum ble lo«»ked hack and was turned to a
glittering with stars, the grand acter and conduct are not what station, have perform ed faithfully pillar of salt.
Moses looked for
the
duties
of
life,
have
by
their
ward and attain ed success.”— Rev.
w o rd — F reedom ?
they should b»-, hut th at they can
labor
and
sacrifice
m
ade
th
e
world
Jo
h n H all, D. I)., in his sermon at
I” it a sm all thing to quench the he elevate«!; th a t the n atu ral and
tiaineg of hell with the holy tears social conditions of life are defec better, and they are entitled to our the F ifth Ave. P resbyterian church,
New York City, J u n e 27.
"t pi’y; to unbind the m arty r from tive, but adm it of am elioration, and gratitude none th e less, because
Then why look back to collect
the stake; break all the ch ain s; put th a t it is the duty of every m an to they were of th e common people.
the scoundrelism , dogm as, super
" ’*t the fires of civil war; stay thej m ake the world better, in some way,
“ T he ran k is b u t th e g u in ea ’s stam p ,
stitions and obscenity of a th o u s
T he m a n ’s th e gowd for a ’ t h a t . ”
S"ord of the fanatic, and tear the for his having live«! in it.
To this
and years ago for rules of life in
hloody hands of the C hurch from result everyone contributes who
“ The grow ing go«wl of the w orld“,” the present.
One trouble with
he white throat of Science?
discovers a new tru th , invents a as Dr. Liadon once said, “ is p artly C h ristian s is th a t th ey look hack
L >t a sm all thing to m ake men new m achine, lightens the burdens dependent on unhistoric acts; and
like L ot’s wife; th ey are tu rn ed in
fUly free—to destroy th e dogmas of labor, breaks down the harriers th a t things are not so ill with you
to church steeples instead of pil
ignorance, prejudice and power b e tw e e n m an k in d , battles against and with me as they m ight have
lars of salt. Quit searching am ong
—the poisoned fables of su p ersti p o p u lar error and wrong, or teaches been, is h a lf owing to the num ber
m um m ies for the spooks of p ro p h
tion, and drive from the beautiful a larger view of m an, his duties and who lived faith fu lly a hidden life
ets and work for the good of the
face of the earth the fiend of F»*ar? his destiny.
and rest in unvisited tom bs.”
present. There is plenty to do,
I ngersoll .
The self-sacrificing heroes of the
B. F. U nderwood .
Dr. Jo h n .— W. E. J.
HELlORISfl.