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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1897)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1897. We are just what our education down the proposition th at “ no in makes us; and if we are taught to be struction is worthy the nam e of superstitious, we shall grow up education unless it rests upon re in th at belief; or if we happen to ligious faith, influencing ch aracter get rid of it, the tabk is exceedingly by religious motives, and regulat- »lifficult. “ It is hard to straighten ing and restraining conduct by re in the oak the crook th at grew in ligious sanctions.” If the church the sapling.” U ntil within a few party win“ in the contest, the basis years ago the ghost superstition of the religious instruction given is was dying out som ew hat; but it has to he the Bible, the L ord’s Prayer, been revived under the “ S p iri’u a l” and the A postles’ Creed. The con- delusion, which is doing no little test is said to be raging now with mischief in that direction. great bitterness, and people in this We heard the other dav of an country should take w arning from incident which goes to show the such object lessons and carefully good effect of bringing up chihlren avoid all ground for such m t - in a rational and sensible m anner, happy controversy here. Religious without poisoning them with super- teaching cannot he put on a par stitious folly. A little girl of nine with the teaching of arith m etic or \» ars, living in a country town, geography.— Sentinel. went some distance to visit a neigh B aptists the Original Secularists. bor, and, on retu rning home, the Respectfully invite you to visit night being d ark , lost her way and The history of th is denom ination th eir estab lish m en t and con mistook the r« a<l. She wande red j be United States can he traced vince yourself th at they are round until about m idnight, when far back tow ards the first coloniza- show ing the greatest line of she arrived at a graveyard; and tion of New E ng lan d by th e pilgrim (ieneral M erchandise in Marion thinking she might reach her home fa t| ierg. The first B aptist churches, county at popular prices. l»\ passing t rough th at place, she however, were founded by Roger Mail orders given prom pt atten tio n . boldly mad»* the attem pt to do so, W illiam s, in Providence, R. I., and Yours to Please went through, and finally reached by John C lark, in Newport. R. I.,! her fath er’s house between two and during the year 1639. W illiain sat three o’clock in the m o rn in g .. There first met with considerable opposi-; Silverton, Oregon is not one child in ten thousand, ^ Qn and persecution for declining and hut very few’ men and women, to recognize the power of the civil w’ho would dare to <lo such a thing m agistrate in m atb rs of religion; We d o n ’t know’ hut that even we, but in 1644 he obtained a ch arter ourself, with all our disbelief ( in the for land which he and his fol- daytim e) of ghosts and goblins, lower8 had colonized. It -D E A L E R S IN- m ight, at the witching hour of called Rhode Islan d , and was am ong ! night when ch u rchyards yaw n,” the fir8t Htates to g ra n t re jigiou81 have been a trifle inclined to liberty. In the other colonies the whistle to k e e p our courage up, persecution of the B aptists lasted if placed in th at position. But our m any years, occasioned not alto- Corner Main and W ater S'reets, little heroine was ae fearless as was g e lh u . by th eir religious views, hut SILV ER TO N , O R E. lighting Joe ll«»oker. when charging ¡n pa rj by their extrem e views re- a rebel battery. Her m other said to ga|.d ing civil governm ent. Laws lo*r, wasn t you a u a id , Mary, wh» n w«-re mail»* against them in Massa- vou were walking in »he graveyard c}1USetts in 1644, and some of them D E A L E R S IN at midnigh- ? \\ by, no, replied were banished in 1669: they were the child, thed»*a<l won t hurt me. , proscribed in New York in 1662, There spoke a philosopher a t nine and in V irginia in 1664, but about y ears!—a tar greater curiosity th an tbe beginning of AGRICULTURAL IM P L E M E N T S •ighteent h an y th in g th a t Barnum had in his centurv th e authorities l»ecamemore G uns, Fishing J ackie, C utlery, Sporting Goods, Etc., m useum —a child growing up in a tolerant. It may he said here that | SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, C hristian com m unity w ithout being the article on religious lih cr'y to I,«' tainted with superstition. How found in the am endm ent of our »lid it happen? H ere is the secret: constitution is in no sm all part due lie» parents are Infidels, who not p » ’he strenuous efforts of the Bap- believing them selves in ghosts or in tis’s in 1779.— American Edition, religion, have contrived t«> keep the C ham bers’ L ibrary of Universal mi ml of their child free from thes«* K now ledge. errors. No sensible, reflecting per A recent article in the magazines son can <leny the de noralizi ng eff‘ ct represents th at the religious liberty of h“ hgoolin glories and s ip -rs ti- am endm ent of the United States tious tales; a n d 'i f all men w»*re constitution was occasioned hv the Infidels, there would he none f»>uu<l prevalence of French skepticism, to circulate them. Investigator. and jbe presence in congress of such We W ill Do It For You Infidels as Jefferson; ami the con- R eligious C o n tro v ersy . stitU ’iou is often styled atheistic, or godless, on account of this purely F»»r several years a controversy o c u la r character. W hatever its has been in progress in London, m erits or dem erits on this account, Than You Can Get It Elsew here. E"g., over , he qiiesti-»1- of teaching , be B aptists are largely in •*vi«l»-nce religion in the Board (or public) t h. ref. r, whilst there ; ire many p<»s- ( schools. A large parly composed ing as F reethinkers, wh", as im in- of ad herents of the Established bers <»f such pseudo patriotic secret church d-mHud th a t rellglou« in- ’‘« ictic. a> , he O rangem en, A.m-ri-1 , . , can Mechanics, and A. P. A., are struction be given th e young pupils helpi„ g to failten re| igi(lU, bi«o,ry in the sch«H»ls, and a spokesm an up»on our free institutions, for this party has recently laid J . P. Gi il p . A. 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