T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , OCTOBER 21, 1897.
it should exist, it can have no
fu rth er claim s nor justification in
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itself for continuance. The onlv
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LITTLE
TORCHES.
By W. F.. Johnson
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Ot one thing we may , be sure,—
n atu ra l claim s that can remain in God is not in favor of sin. He does
relation to it are those which attach " Ot .W“ r>‘ ,u?
sin - G" d '* o |'P "swI
to sin and he wants us to be.—S u n ­
to offspring. Pursued to this point, day Schools Times, Oct. 9th.
the question then reduces itself to
If God “ m ade all things,” he
this: do claim s for the term ination ,nU!it have made sin.
You will
of an unhappy m arriage outweigh have to renovate your theology or
account for G od’s m aking things
the claim s of offspring for its con­
th a t he did not want.
tinuance?
©rfch ©f l^ e a s e n
Song Book
“ May not parents equally or bet-
A book th a t is im m oral in its
x ter secure the welare of offsping by nature or teaching cannot stim u late
moral feeling.—The M ethodist Re­
some other means m utually agreed corder.
upon than the m aintenance of a
T h a t’s exactly why we reject the
A couple of
discordant m arriage? This is one bible. I t’s nasty.
of the most try in g problem s of our years ago a citizen of K ansas was
age. I do not attem p t to answer. sentenced to the p en iten tiary , and
properly so, for sending an obscene
I only plead for science to help us
verse from the bible through the
find the tru th .
M arriage can m ails on a postal card.
occupy no m iddle ground: she m ust
stand as a divine institution, and
he treated in the light of su p ern a­
turalism , or she is a n a tu ra l in sti­
tution to he studied in the light of
science. I believe, if these issues
could be met and fought in the
open field of science, they could he
ju stly settled.
\\ ithout speaking
am iss, it can a t least be said, as re­
gards the legal aspect of niarrage,
th a t it is but meet and proper that
com pulsion should take care of its
own results. So long as children
are for the most part the fruits of a
The first great battle which the
church of Christ fought with Infi­
delity in the defense of tru th , was
fought for the sake of the preserva­
tion of the sacredness of tru th . The
early persecutions strove to destroy
loyalty to the tru th rath e r than
belief of the tru th . They were con­
tent if they could persuade the fol­
lowers of Jesus to deny him, even
though the denial itself was a false­
hood. The fagot, the sword, and
the rack were the argum ents used
in the fight.—The C hristian Guide,
Sept. 24th.
1.
“ Keep the Torch of Reason Burning.”
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We defy you to point to a single
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should continue to protect them , or anybody else. You know you
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ib is difficulty can only be obviated lie when you assert to the contrary.
with the sam e logic and fitness E very fagot th a t was lighted in
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W om an is m ost deeply con­
SILVERTON, OREGON.
“ He (S a ta n ) requests and obtains
cerned in this question, and it is permission to test the faith of right­
she who should • speak for herself. eous Job by a series of troubles, t
If, therefore, m otherhood should be Here we get the first solution of the
free, consistent with this position, m ystery of suffering, nam ely th a t
suffering is sent as a test of saint-
m ust not m arriage be free?”
ship. Job is stripped of his m any
“ In w hat sense do you ask if
possessions and his sons and daugh­
m arriage should be free? Is not ters are slain. But Job remains
every one free to m arry whom lie faithful to God, exclaim ing in the
pleases, or not, as he pleases?”
m idst of his calam ities, ‘the Lord
“ I mean freedom in m arriage to gave and the Lord hath taken
do w hat either or both deem best aw ay; blessed be the nam e of the
Lord.’ A second c u n c il is held in
for th eir perm anent happiness and
heaven and the S atan, coming again
welfare, i f i t Ge tow ard a dissolution „ ill, the sons of God, suggests for-
of th e bond.”
j th er afflictions to test the piety of
“ W ould th is not be a dangerous J°h. J ° b ¡8 sm itten with boils.—
fretd o m ?”
Prof. G. R. Moulton of the Univer-
“ M arriage should dem and free- "¡‘y of Chicago, in the Firsl Baptist
,
.
C hurch, P hiladelphia, Sept. 2fith.
dom as an inalienable right, irre-
, .
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, .
' W ill y<>u explain w hat business
spective of any use to which it m ay '
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S atan had up in heaven, c.inspiring
be applied. In this sense, m arriage
. .
would be safer in freedom, because
God against a respectable c.t,
zen, like a couple of burglars?
fortified by the tru th .”
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“ W herein fortified by the tru th , Jesse Pomeroy him self could n<>t It should be in th e h an d s of every th in k in g p erso n . A ddress all orders to
unless used for the tru th ? And, if have devised a more infamous piece
The JORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon,
freedom were always used for the of husines- than this outrage, u ,ieh
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y0U say God ¡s guilty
of.
I r y the io re n tor Jobw ork,