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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.