* _ >■* *-*■* J**»~ k l A VOL. 1. The Creed of Hope. SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEM BER 30, 1897. NO. 48. of sorcery attached to the cultiva- Im pulse to V irtu e an d H o n esty , out scruple worships a m an, and tion of alm ost any intellectual p u r By A. Ài. Hasw ell. who helieves firm ly in the incon By I >r. I . B uchner. [N atu ralized by Jo h n P. G uild ] suit, and the Em peror Ju stin ia n ceivable m ystery of the T rin ity , ‘‘T hè te x t is beholden to him th a t Ju st as no single atom or sm all reads upon it for im proving i t . ” ---- R. actu ally passed a law for the “sup-I ridicules the C atholic C hristian be est conceivable particle of m atter L ’Est range. pression of m athem aticians.” cause the latter believes in the can disappear or be destroyed in The world is grow ing b e tte re v e ry day, W hen the t y ra n n y of the church m ystery of the tran su b stan tiatio n . * Though crim e and greed and cru elty the life of n atu re in general, so not join h a n d s reached the zenith of its power, He treats him as a fool, as ungodly To forge fresh chains to bind th e the sm allest deed or most insignifi- weary lands. n atural science became alm ost a ami idolatrous, because he kneels The sun n e ’e r sinks b u t th a t his settin g ; cant thought of a man can perish tradition of the past. The pedants ray to worship the bread in which he 'o r be lost in the general life of m an (Bids som e new broken fe tte r freshly of the convent schools divided th eir believes he sees the God o f the u n i throw n aw ay. kind. For both propagate th em time between the forgery of m iracle verse. All the C hristian denom in The waves of reform ation ebb and till, And e a rn est w atchers fo ra rising tide legends and the elaboration of in selves in unending sequence, by ations agree in considering as folly Grow sick at h e a rt and deem th e ir virtue of the im pulse given by them , hopes denied ; sane dogmas. The most e x tra v a the incarnation of the God of the But soon and sure th e wave retu rn in g will just as the oscillations of the surface T h u n d er e x u lta n tly , ‘‘T r u th ’s tide is ris gant absurdities were propagated Indies, V ishnu. They contend of a piece of water produced by a ing s till.” th a t the only true incarnation is under the nam e of historical rec falling stone vibrate onw ards in The d ark n ess is h erald of th e light, th a t of Jesus, Son of the God of the And g ath ers blackness ju s t before it ords; medleys of nursery tales and constantly larger and weaker circles. flies universe and of the wife o f a car ghost stories which the poorest vil In sw ift re tre a t adown th e ra d ia n t And although this m ovem ent its e lf skies ; lage school teacher of pagan Rome m ust by degrees be lost or come to penter. The theist, who calls him And evil still but serves to prove th e would have rejected with disgust rest just like these oscillations, it self a votary of n atu ra l religion, is m ight And certain victory of hum an good and were gravely discussed by so-called has in the m eanw hile set free a satisfied to acknowledge a God of rig h t. certain num ber of other (physical whom he has no conception; in The sta r of hope leads onw ard to th e fray ; scholars. Buckle, in his “ H istory himself in jesting upon Nor tr ails its sta n d a rd ever in defeat ; of C ivilization,” quotes sam ples of or intellectual) movements, which dulges N o re v o lu tio n from its goal r e tr e a t, on their part renew and continue other m ysteries taught by all the And they w ho m arch w here Reason leads such chronicles which m ight be t he sam e action. Thus the life of religions of the world.— “ S u p ersti th e way, In N a tu re ’s stre n g th shall w in th e g lo r m istaken for products of satire, if the individual is a t the s a m e time tion in All Ages.” ious day. ab u n d an t evidence of contem porary the life of h u m an ity , and the life of If Death Ends Ail. w riters did not prove them to h a v e f h u m an ity th a t of the individual! Perversion. W hoever cannot or will not allow By R. G. Ingersoll. been the c u ire n t staple of mediev this great tru th to suffice for him , By F. L Oswald. And suppose, after all, th a t d eath science. whoever is unable to find in it a There is a trad itio n th a t a year does end all. Next to eternal joy, W hen the gloom of the dreadful sufficient im pulse to virtue and next to being forever with those we before the conversion of C onstantine night was broken by the first gleam .honesty, will also be incapable of love and those who have loved us, the son of the prophetess Sospitra of m odern science, every torch- being kept perm anently in the right — next to th a t, is to be w rapt in was praying in the tem ple of Sera- bearer was persecuted as an incen path by any external force or the dream less sleep of eternal peace. pis, when the sp irit of his m other diary. Astronom ers were forced to agency. N either philosophical nor Next to eternal life is eternal sleep. came over him and the veil of the recant their heresies on their bend religious creeds are capable of furn Upon the shadowy shore of death future was w ithdraw n. “ Woe to ed knees. Philosophers were caged ishing even d istan tly an equivalent the sea o f trouble casts no wave. our children!” he exclaim ed, when like w ild beasts. Religious skeptics for it, or of replacing by m eans of Eyes th a t have been curtain ed by were b u rn t at the stake, as enemies th eir mixed egotistical and im agin the everlasting dark will never he awakened from his trance, “ I of God and the hum an race. It ary m otives that firm morel posi know again the burning touch of see a cloud approaching, a great was, indeed, alm ost impossible to tion which the individual m ust a t tears. Lips touched by eternal darkness is going to spread over the enunciate any scientific axiom th a t tain by the recognition of the im silence will never speak again the face of the w orld.” T h at darkness did not conflict with the dogmas of perishableness of his being in con broken words of grief. H earts of proved a thirteen hundred y ears’ the revelation-m ongers who had for nection with h u m an ity a t large. dust do not break. T he dead do eclipse of common sense an d reason. centuries subordinated the evidence not weep. W ithin the tom b no All Religions Are Ridiculed. There is a doubt if the to tal destruc of th e ir own senses to the ra n t of veiled and weeping sorrow sits, and tion of all cities of the civilized epileptic m onks and m aniacs. Ami By Jean Mealier. in the ray less gloom is crouched no world could have struck a more when the sun of Reason rose visi N othing appears more ridiculous shuddering fear. cruel blow to science th a n the dog bly above the horizon of the intel in the eyes of a sensible m an th an I had rath er th in k of those I ma of salvation by faith am i ab sti lectual world, its rays struggled dis for one denom ination to criticise have loved, and lost, as having re nence from the pursuit of free in torted through the dense m ist of an o th er whose creed is equally fool turned to earth , as having become quiry. The ethics of the world- superstition which continued to ish. A C hristian thinks th a t the a p art of the elem ental wealth of renouncing fanatic condemned the brood over the face of the earth, K oran, th e divine revelation a n the world; I would rath er th in k of love of secular knowledge as they and was only p artially dispersed nounced by M ohammed, is but a them as unconscious dust; I would condem ned the love of health and even by the storm s of the Protes tissue of im pertinent dream s and rath er dream of them as gurgling the p u rsu it of physical prosperity, ta n t revolt. im postures injurious to D ivinity. in the stream , floating in theclouds, T he light of modern science has The M oham m edan, on his side, bursting in light upon the shores of and the children of the next fifty generations were s y s t e m a t i c a l l y brought its blessings only to the treats the C hristian as an idolater other worlds; I would rath er th in k trained to despise the highest a t h ab itan ts of the social highlands; and a dog; he sees but absurdities of them as the lost visions of a for tribute of the hum an spirit. S p ir the valley dwellers still grope their in his religion; he im agines he has gotten night, th an to have even the itual poverty became a test of moral way through the gloom of inveterate the rig h t to conquer his country faintest fear th at their nak»*d souls w orth; philosophers and free in superstitions and prejudices, and and force ‘ him , sword in hand, to may have been clutched by an o r quirers we banished, while m ental centuries m ay pass before the world accept the faith of his D ivine pro thodox god. But as for me, I will castrates were fattened at the ex has entirely emerged from the phet; he believes especially th a t leave the dead where nature leaves pense of the toiling rustics and me shadow of the life-blighting cloud nothing is more im pious or more them. W hatever flower of hope chanics; science was dreaded as an which the son of Sospitra recog unreasonable th an to worship a springs in my heart I will cherish; ally of skepticism , if not of the nized in the rise of the Galilean man or to believe in the T rin ity . I will give it breath of sighs and arch-fiend in person; the suspicion delusion.—The Bible ot Nature. The P ro testan t C hristian, who with-1 rain of tears.