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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.