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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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•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 |
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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
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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
,
.
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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
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