be seen of m en.” The preachers loving God. Weakling-» are born
have found th a t they can do le tte r into the world with th eir poor
of
Many of the ideas th a t are said to disobey C h rist’s instructions and brains befogged by inherited faith
The Only P aper of Its Kind.
to have been brought to light by pray to be beard of men.
The and credulity and are throw n upon
Published W eekly by th e Literal Uni- Christ are not
practiced by Chris- closet plan is a failure; there is no the world with no ab ility except to
versity Com pany, in the Interests of ! | j angj arH] in fact are strenously money in it. God will not answer worship. These we pity from the
opposed by most of them.
The these closeted prayers and Chris- bottom of our hearts.
Poor things,
J E H osm er,
E ditor Sunday laws which are now being
tian m inisters know it.
they were lo st when they were horn
P. W. (jeer,
M anager forced upon our people by Chi is-
Everyone knows th at the Chris- and no m atter how m any times
tians are directly opposed, not only tians are as anxious to make money they are “ bom ag ain ” they will re-
E ntered a t th e postoftice a t Silverton, to conirr)o n sense, hut are ju st oppo- as anyone. Many of them have m ain lost, and lost forever.
< tre g o n ,
site to the ideas expressed by C hrist money in the hank and whenever
I'he second class are mostly men
to the Pharisees in regard to the they can get good interest on a who were born all right, and in
SUB5CRIi*TION RATES.
99 S abbath day. Then Christ was loan they seem pleased ju st like m any cases have had a good chance
One year, in advance.
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< *. other people; and yet the holy hook for school, but being throw n on
In clubs of five or more, one year, _ ; offend thee, pluck it out, etc.’ says, ‘‘lay not up for yourselves th eir own resources before they had
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Kayjng this seems to imply treasures upon e a rth .” Is there a experience enough to overcome dif
Money should lie sen t by registered
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le tte r or m oney order.
th a t their right eyes would lie apt C hristian who is so foolish (or so ficulties th a t alw ays arise, they be
to offend some of them , or what was wise) as to ‘‘lake no thought for his come discouraged, give up, think
Notice!
the use of this all-w ise m aster men- life?” W here is one th a t does not th ere’s no use in tryin g and are lost.
A p en cil m a r k h e re d e n o te s t h a t y o u r ^¡o n i n i, j^. a n ,| where are the Chris- think of what he shall eat or what This class m ight he redeemed by
suhscription will ex p ire w ith th e n ex t
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nu m b er. You are earn estly requeste«! tian s who have p lu ck td out th eir he shall d rin k , and the clothes th a t proper surroundings, and th is is
to renew ho th a t you m ay receive th e |>a- ( r j
ey es? We never have seen he is to wear? Most of them seem the class th a t should aw aken the
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . W e have de
cided th a t it is liest for all concerned one who has plucked out a right m he as anxious about these things liveliest sy m p ath y ; not in a narrow,
th a t we do not send papers longer than eye or cut off a right hand, and we as we Secularists, in spite of the help-one-m an way, hut in a way
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered.
.
T his will prev en t any loss and we will are quite sure that these members fact th at swallows and chicken- th a t means the removal of the cause,
know ju st w here we sta n d .
have in m any cases given offence, hawks do not run seeders, harvesters and the ultim ate earth ly salva
Have you no sym pathy
of Secularists who m ight become sub- for how often we hear the C hristians or threshing m achines, and the tion of all.
««•ri hers and we will m ail sam ple copies. calling them selves “ vile
worms,” lilies of the field do not wear pants. for this m an who will not work?
and in m any ways showing th a t We wonder w hat C hrist, who said, Let us look at his history: As a
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5»E. M. 297
they them selves believe that their “judge not, th a t ye he not judged,” hoy he was considered intelligent,
W e M u s t D e s tro y th e In c e n tiv e . orBans l,ave ,,ff<‘,lde<l ,h e m -
w»uld say if he heard a Methodist hut being deprived of parental care,
Then again, how m any cases do preacher passing judgm ent on the h e hired out to work for a brute of
The priests of religion are not the we find of C hristians being divorced ‘ Secularists? M any C hristians really a man wTio sham efully abused him
only priests th a t are a curse to m an- and m arrying divorced wives, which believe th at they are trying to he and finally when the hoy retaliated
kind, and in our secular work we is absolutely against the teachings Christ-like, hut they would not for he was cursed, perhaps beaten, and
should not only trv to scatter seeds i of M atthew , V—32. Nearly all One m om ent attem p t to do w hat lie sent away w ithout being paid his
P er
of tru th , hut we should pull up C h ristian s swear in court, and in is supposed t<» have tau g h t, or do as scanty, hard-earned wages.
haps he tried again with no better
every weed of error, even if some of m aking out a sim ple affidavit they he is supposed to have done.
According to some of the accounts success, for there are m any well-to-
them are difficult to handle. I he nearly all disobey th e scriptural
orthodox guardians of the supposed injunction, “ swear not at a ll.” given in the bible, if he should do men whose only th ought is to
soul o f man a r e perhaps no more of W here is the C hristian who w ill j come here today as he was, or as he get all they can out of a hired hoy,
a nuisance than the orthodox guar- “ resist not evil?” The C hristians is represented, ignorant of the mod- and when the lim it is reached the
dians of our health. The m odern them selves would consider a person ern w ins and worship, and went to hoy’s mind is fixed; he will not
physician, if he is w hat he should who would not resist evil a fool, teaching and acting as lie did then, w ork; he is shunned as som ething
he, has to com bat and compete with j and our advice is to look out for he would he taken for an an arch ist evil; he him self is convinced that
the old
oe ideas of purge, bleed i the law if y<»u trespass on a Chris- and probably ju stly so, for he would he is no good; he is a tram p. To
and blister, just as secular lecturers tia n ’s rights. There are hut few tu rn over the money schemes; stop be sure, it takes more to m ake some
are obliged to fight the old ideas of C hristian m inisters who really the preachers praying in public; people tram ps than others, hut most
hell, blood atonem ent and m iracles. > “ love their enem ies,” and as far as break the holy Sahhath;condem n the any one can he brought down by
We hope the time will come when “ giving to them th a t ask” anil preachers who have divorced wives; favorable conditions, and instead of
not only public speakers will con-j “ tu rn in g the other check” is con and thegivingof alm s in public; pre being satisfied w ith blam ing these
vent C hristians from laying up
fine their work to things which cerned, they no im»re practice this money for a rainy day and raise poor unfortunates, or w asting our
energy praying for them , we should
agree with science and advanced th an the Infidels, and would he the dickens in general
m ethods, teaching us how to live foolish if they did under present
Both ancient and modern Chris- get at the root of the m atter, re-
tian itv is m any centuries behind the move the cause and save the boys,
happy lives here, hut when the b u s -1 conditions.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
iness <>f our public serv an t, the
“ Take heed th a t ye d o not your times, and w hat is now rapidly tak-
ing its place is the more practical
physician, will he to keep us well alm s before m en,” says t lie god-m an, and up-to-date ideas of Secularism ,
H o w M any?
instead of bleeding us after we have hut when a collection is taken n p the Scientific religion, the religion
We know of a num ber of in telli
already been afflicted.
for the poor heathen, or for any of Progress, the religion of Hu-
gent people who have given up work
Then we have with us th e priests other purpose, or when a rich Chris- inanity.
ing for the good of h u m an ity and
of politics, those law yers who care tian gives a l m s , people seem to find
T ra m p s .
are at present working for money
not for law, justice or right, hut it out very easily. I11 fact, there
who, like the orthodox preacher and are no people in the world who
The beggars th at are thronging and money alone, and when we
orthodox physician, works for w hat sound a louder trum pet before them our cities and pestering our farmers consider the pressure th a t has been
he supposes is for his own interest when they give, than «he followers are of two classes; those who want brought to compel people to do this,
He will sell out his client, plead of him who is said to have forbidden work and c a n ’t get it, on account of we do not feel so hard toward them
w hat he knows to he false, or act such work. The secret alm s giving inability, and those who do not as we otherw ise m ight. The Chris-
the baby to affect the ju ry . If he idea seems to he b an k ru p t and the wish to work. M any people con- tian church is a great, strong organi-
is a good (?^ fraud lie will he elected rew ard promised for secret alm s- dem n and hate both of theseclasses; zation which is forcing men and
to represent us perhaps in Congress, giving never comes, hut a person is some leel sorry for the first c la s s , women, with terrible force, to play
and he forever afterw ards an “ lion- rewarded by himself and his friends while they despise the last, and the hypocrite and act th e C hristian
orahle” m an.
if In» works.
others sym pathize with both. W ith- p a rt for w hat there is in it.
The only remedy th a t we can see
One o f the very plainest in s tru c -!out prejudice let us reason from
One of our dectives has uu-
for the hortible conditions these tions is in regard to prayer: “ And cause to effect and perhaps we may earthed the following from one
This
false priests have brought us to, is when thou prayest th«»u sh alt not discover what should he our atti of the supposed saints.
in some way to do away with the I be as the hypocrites are; for they tude.
heaven-bound
trav eler’s
words
incentive for preachers to pretend, love to pray standing in the syna-
W hat causes the first class? Per- will speak for them selves.
He
doetors to poison and lawyers to gogues (churches) and in the cor- haps no greater cause can be found says in a private letter, which he
lie. How can we d»» this?
ners of the streets, that they m ay than blind faith in an all-wise and never expected would fall into our
Torch
Reason
C h ris tia n s vs. C h r is tia n ity