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T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, T H U R S D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 30, 1897.
in any position to which th»*re is a
salary attached. Pilkins, however,
take» the golden mean.
He's in ­
evitably on both sides of every
question by natural gravitation,
and so is universally popular. I
believe you were unanim ously
elected m ayor of Golden T hrone.”
“ Yes, and a booming city we
have,” said Pilkins. “ I m ake things
fly, a new schoolhouse th is spring
and a new courthouse in the fall.
‘Education and ju stic e’ are our
hobbies.”
“ Why d id n ’t Prince H al come
cTown?”
“ He won’t leave Golden Throne.
He smokes his forty cigars per day
and m editates. His philosophy is
to do nothing, and he enjoys it.”
“ I sometimes th in k he’s wiser
than us a ll.”
“ My new ship the ‘A lbatross’ is
ready,” said C aptain Furgeson.
“ Take a sail tomorrow?”
“ T h at we will!” cried Paddie,
“ over the waves of the d ark blue
sea, our thoughts as boundless and
our souls as free.
W hat a luxury
tiiere is in the great ocean!
I feel
like the poor woman who had lived
in a country place all her life; and,
when she did have a glimpse of the
sea, she*said she was glad for once
to see enough of som ething.
We
are awfully cram med in; and, if it
were not for the sea, we should
never have the sense of sufficiency.”
“ I couldn’t live ashore,” said the
captain; “ I feel all the while as if I
h ad n ’t room ”
“ The only trouble with a ship is
th a t we can ’t go shopping,” said his
wife; “ th at is all th a t reconciles me
to the land.”
“ You can come shopping to my
store,” said Pippins. “ I have some
nice cabbages and tu rn ip s and a
little of everything.”
“ T h a t’s what I w ant, a little of
everything,” said Blanche. “ Don’t
you th in k the more we have the
better we are?”
“ Yes,” replied the doctor, “it is
right to be dissatisfied and eager
for more. There has been too much
self-denial and repression. We feel
the necessary reaction now, and
w ant more th an we can g e t ; but it
is these restless, infinite desires of
the heart th at have made th is earth
to ‘blossom as a rose.’ If we were
satisfied with the least possible we
could u>*e, there would be no prog­
ress. It is because we w ant palaces
and not huts th a t men know how
to rear palaces. To st"ip m an of
his w ants would strip him of his
stren g th .”
“ Is it not m a n ’s w ants th a t make
him u n h a p p y ? ”
“ Perhaps so for th - inn* l»eing,
but happiness secured at the sacri­
fice of our w ants is a dear-bought
happiness. O nly th at happiness is
valuable which is secured in and
through the m ultiplication and
satisfaction of our w ants.”
( to be continued .)
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By W . E Johnson
Our present body is the seed of
our future body. The one rises as
n atu rally from the other as the
Bower from the germ .—New York
Observer, Sept 2nd.
• W ho ever heard of a corpse
sprouting aud raising a crop after
it had been planted in a boneyard?
Your m etaphors are crude— very
crude.
................. E. M.,
¿07 •
L iberal U n iv ersity C om pany,
SILVERTON, OREGON.
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Construction of the Liberal University at Silverton, Oregon.
God keeps a good supply of asbes­
tos suits for his saints. They can,
Yours for Progress,
therefore, glorify God in the fires of
th is world and escape the fires of
the next.— Philadelphia C hristian
S tanda rd.
C u t th is o u t, or copy it; enclose
w h a t you can, and fo rw a rd to
If God doesn’t w ant his creatures {
J. E HOSMER, President,
to get burnt, why doesnt he p u t ,
out the fires of hell, instead of open­
Silverton, Oregon.
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use of God being guilty of arson,
anyhow’?
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Jesus w’ent to prepare a place for
us, and how well it will be prepared
no tongue can describe nor pen pic­
tu re.— C hristian Conservator, Sept.
15th.
All the same, C hristian scholars
have always m anaged to describe
this place prepared for us as a re­
sort of “ endless torm ent,” and ablaze
w’ith “ fire and brim stone.” Really,
how your god m ust love his crea­
tures— love to frv the fat out of
them .
The fact th a t we are dependent
for power upon the work of God
within us, does not in any way les­
son hum an responsibility, for every
m an can receive as much or as little
of the power of God as he desires,
for God is alw ays ready to do his
p a rt.—The C hristian Guide.
If we are so to tally dependent
upon God for the “ w orkings” within
us, we m ust be dependent upon
God for the “ desire” for this
“ power.” If God made us what
business had he to p lan t “ Jesireb”
for evil within us? W hat business
has a perfect God to do a botch job?
The Christian’s Threat.
“ He th at believeth not shall be
dam ned,” is the spontaneous la n ­
guage of absolute and savage ty ­
ranny. No man who respects his
neighbors could u tter it. It is the
language of a savage brute who will
frighten you if he can; and he would
frighten you because he has no ra ­
tional m eans of bringing you over
to his side. He cannot reason, he
will not try to convince you; he
does not understand the* meaning
of reason and con viction. He there­
fore resorts to brute force in its
worst possible form, and sets up a
perpetual Reign of Terror by way
o f gaining adherent*.
Such was Jesus, such are his real
followers—th e m ost detestable of
all th a t is hum an and all th at is
legendary. The only person in the
case who ought to be dam ned is
the brute who utters the threat.
Jos. S ymes .
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