T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , S E P T E M B E R 9, 1897. LITTLE TORCHES. greater injustice th an the clergy m en; and they are u tterly uncon By W . E Johnson scious of this, or of the savagery of The young m an who desires to their opinions and conduct. De be pure m ust th in k pure thoughts. liver me, said a M assachusetts —Southw estern C hristian Advo judge, from the m ethods of an eccles cate, August 19. And in order to th in k pure iastical trib u n al. Surely they are infam ous. They either whitewash thoughts he m ust steer clear of or they crucify. Ther^ i« no sifting such villianous obscenity as be of testim ony, no effort to discover fouls the old testam ent from lid to the true relation of things, facts are lid. Much of th is sacred book is perverted, reason ignored, only not fit to be read in a sewer. prejudice and the petty feelings of WheD affliction is in our home, th e hour trium ph. “ I t ’s like going into a deu of when disease is in the body, or tigers,” said Jim m y . “ Look over when death invades the home circle th e crowd. Can you expect justice and the crape is on the door and the coffin in the home, the Holy from a set like th a t, the cowed S pirit com forts and helps us, slaves of popular o p in io n ?’’ soothes our sorrows, helps our “ You m ight as well take your hopes, and points us to the world o f light, life and joy where we shall staff and s ta rt,” said Charlie. meet the God we have loved and “ I will compel them to say som e he friends we have lost.—C hris th in g . They s h a n ’t evade it. H alf tian Conservator. these people call them selves liberal. T h at is just like the God of Moses L et me see if they are or not. They and Talm age: he kills some m em h ate Skinflint, and yet they will do ber of a fam ily and then sends the exactly as S kinflint orders.” Ghost around to ask the m ourners Skinflint was indeed the ru ler of how they enjoy the funeral. th e assem bly: for he was really the only bigot in it, and therefore the “ C ertain papers representing the only m an of real conviction, and C atholic T otal Abstinence move suprem e by the power of his con m ent are doing great injury to the viction. H e believed in H ell-tire good cause they are cham pioning by th eir violent and scandalous You could see th at he did in every denunciations of “ beer-swilling lineam ent of his face. There w asn’t C atholics.” H undreds of canon a chance for a sm ile in it. I t was ized saints and m yriads of uncanon the face of a m um m y, cold anc ized ones have drank beer every terrible. He could answ er any day of their lives.”—Church P ro gress. question you m ight propound con T h at is the trouble you get into cerning an y p a rt of the Scriptures from w orshiping beer-soaked sain ts an d had a thousand texts a t com and a “ D ivine” N azarine who m aud. He was com pletely armec rushed the can for the guests at and equipped for theological battle th a t celebrated m arriage pow-wow He believed em phatically in verba in C ana. in sp iration. The salvation of the world depended upon th is belief. R ationalistic C hristianity does The word of God must be accepted not reach the people, and is little, ju st as it is. There must be no often nothing, more than an in tel lectual diversion and social nucleus disp u te and no doubt. In forcing Demorest to say yes to the cultivated.—The C hristian or no to this dogm a, S kinflint was Advocate, A ugust 12. “ R atio n alistic” and “ C h ristian sim ply acting out his n atu re The mo O thers would like to have dodged ity ” are opposite term s. the issue; b u t he was relentless, be ment C h ristian ity becomes “ ratio n alistic,” it ceases to be C hristianity. cause he was illogical. H e saic very p ertin en tly , if there isn ’t Every believer in Jesus C hrist is any hell-fire, w hat is the use of the under obligation to receive the old C hurch? They all saw the poin testam ent in precisely the spirit in an d m eekly obeyed his sum m ons to which Jesus C hrist received it—one of unquestioning oltedience.—The the com bat. B rother B alderdash, a fam ous C hristian H erald (D etroit) August p h ila n th ro p ist and president of the 19. By the same logic, this believer Young M en’s C hristian Association, was th e right-hand m an of S k in is “ under obligation’ to go bare flint in th is all-im p o rtan t struggle. headed and wear sandals and sk irts He would also be H e him self, however, was not as Jesu s did. m uch of a theologian or student. “ under obligation” to ride a jackass, He called him self a “ C hristian when travelling, instead of a street ________ w orker.” He took his creed e n tire car. ly on tru s t and swallowed it whole; Grand Undertaking. an d , as hell-fire was a p a rt of it, of course he swallowed th a t. He E ditor T orch of R eason : could have swallowed an ything. Enclosed please find $0 for the He was very receptive, and entirely U niversity; I hope to be able to do obedient to the dignitaries of the more later on. It is a grand u n d er C hurch. H e was once a m erchant, tak in g and must succeed—and it b u t found th a t he could m ake a will. 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