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T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , S E P T E M B E R 9, 1897.
Rabbits and Pheasants,
and put m an in God’s place.
But
if Jesus was in reality the rem ark- '
able person th at he is represented
E ditor T orch of R eason :
The in stitu te m ust be made a
to be, if he came of his own acc<> rd
success. Reforms never go back­
or was sent on a mission in which
ward.
A forward step is being
the future destiny of all m ankind
taken in hu m an progress and will
was at stake, why did he not go
no more “dow n” than the ghost ot
about it in a gentlem anly and re­
M acbeth. Churches of h u m an ity
spectable way, and give us an ac­
and Secular schools have come to
count <>f his own w riting, or have
stay; delays m ay occur, but not
some one to do it for him under
failure. The Silverton people are
his instruction, so as noi to leave
on the rig h t road. Remember the
even the shadow of a doubt in the
'tortoise.
m inds of the most unbelieving, of
I c a n ’t help m uch, but Christ
the tru th and m agnitude of his
accepted the “ widow’s m ite,” so 1
m ission; but what do we lind? He
guess the Secularists will accept
comes and goes on this im portant
mine. And I m ay say here, th a t if
m ission and he d o n ’t leave us a
everyone who is interested in this
word of his own w riting, neither
progressive m ovem ent, whose chil­
does he authorize anyone else to
dren and ch ild ren ’s children are
give us a record. But in th e course
to be benefitted thereby throughout
of time, four men calling them selves
all com ing generations, will do as
apostles of Jesus undertake to give
much according to th eir ability as
us a history of him and his mission
I do there will be no delay».
For the press fund I offer a pair here on earth, but they m ake the
of young Belgian hares, worth $1. worst bungling, m ixed-up, c o n tra­
For the u n iv ersity fund I offer a dictory mess of it of an y th in g I
p air of young Chinese pheasants, ever read in my lite. Two of them
(the ring-neck variety) the famous m ay agree on some certain point,
game bird of Oregon, worth $3. hut the other two .will contradict
These will be crated and delivered them , word for word.
Three of
f. o. b. here, ready for shipm ent to them may agree but the fourth will
any p a rt of the U nited States, p u r­ contradict them positively.
They
chasers to send th e price to the m ight all agree in w hat they say,
proper fund a t Silverton, and the but th a t would not prove th eir
hares or pheasants to be shipped statem ents true, because the parts
on order from there.
Directions m ight all agree, and the whole he a
for m anagem ent sent with goods fabrication.
But their disagree­
when desired. I will offer also a m ent in w hat they say proves false­
choice of one big horned owi, stuffed hood positively. H ad the w riters
and m ounted, $3; a Chinese pheas­ of these four hooks gone into a
a n t cock, stuffed ami m ounted, court of justice to prove an alibi,
$2.50; or a goshawk, stuffed and and given the sam e m ixed-up, con­
m ounted, $5; packed, f. o. b , same tradictory “ mess of stuff” that we
as above.
F. S. M atteson .
find here, there is not the least
Oregon.
doubt th a t they would have
Some C om m ents on th e New been arrested for perjury, and they
would have ju stly deserved it, yet
T estam ent.
this is the kind of C hristian evi­
Is it not strange th a t in a book dence imposed upon the world to­
.J oel M. B erry .
claim ing to lie a revelation direct day.
from God, th a t the a u th o r should
give no account of himself, his
birth, parentage or a n y th in g else?
Not one line
is of his own
th a t to other
nevertheless
of the new testam ent
w riting. He has left
people entirely. It, is
called a revelation
from God to m an, but it has never
been revealed to me.
All th a t I
know’ about it is w hat some one
else has said. Revelation can only
be applied to som ething which God
reveals of his own will to m an, and
then it is only revelation to the
person to whom it is made.
It is
ignorance or im position to apply
the term revelation in cases in
which m an has been the actor, yet
th e bible is represented to us as be­
ing all revelation. W hen it is re­
vealed to me I will believe it.
It
isn ’t rig h t th a t I should tak e the
word of a m an as the word of God,
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