T H E TO R C H OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , O REG O N , T H U R SD A Y , D EC EM B ER 9, 1897. i purposes hidden in his superlative For th e S u n d a y School. p a p a ,” she said, p a r ting an d alm ost wisdom; then we tu rn from him out of breath. “ Now, C lare,” I E ditor T orch of R eason : said, “ this will help those children W hen one looks out over the ail<^ set solution of moral sal- \\ ill you kindly do a favor foi • nd thousands of others not yet world of men, and perceives with vation elsewhere, and then because m y little daughter C lare? I read born.” “Oh, p apa,” she said, “ you the eye of knowledge and of his- " e thus tu in , we are heretics to your news and notes in the issue are so funny. How can it h elp tory the som ewhat loose and chaot- the fa ith , but none the less do we of Nov. 18th to her and she w as children not yet bo rn ?” “ I will quite interested and said, “ Papa ' tell y o n , dear. Yon see there are ic state of m orality; the diversified 8ro" " e a ry and disheartened at let us move to S ilverton so I can ¡children horn every uav, and th eir characters com posing the strug- dnu-s when we find the way rough attend the Liberal U niversity ami fathers and m others read the T orch gling m ass of hum anity; the un- a n ^ 1 roH^ hard to keep, the Secular Sunday school.” “ I of R eason and tell them of all developed brain of the ignorant, the to s°tnetim es stop and know it would be nice,” 1 said to these little things and the good de semi-wise and the polished hypo- tak e stock and see if we have gain- her, “ but papa is not able to go; I rived from the S unday schools, crite; the sm ooth and heartless j e<^ or l°st. Let us count up and would if I could.” Then she said, and will send them to the schools scoundrel; the different classes of cast UP ^ ,e ^ h g e r of the past and “ I would like so much to see those when they are old enough; and little children because they learn crim inals; the cranks and intol- 6eevvhere we stand in the present, ju s t what you are teaching me you see the more help we get to support the S unday schools the e ja n t fanatics, and harnesses him -j th a t we m ay be wiser in the ever every day, and we ca n ’t help them m errier the children all are. No self to the car of developm ent and j UI1hdding future. along unless we live th ere.” “ Oh doubt the little boys and girls of progression, believing th a t it will hat have we done th a t has ad- yes, Ulaie, we can do good no m a t Silverton all wonder who little ter where we live, if our motive is Clare Stoll fs and would like to see move when he tightens on the ded one jot or tittle to ,th e w orld’s such as to be good and help to bet you, and perhaps in the near future traces of his logic, his ethical, m oral m oral progress? If we have done ter the fu tu re .” “ How, dear pa we will move to Silverton and live or religious code his m agnetic nothing, then indeed are we nonen pa?” “ I will tell you, Clare. H ere am ong the people of our own power and sublim e eloquence, he tities in the great dram a of life— is fifty cents; go to the postm aster belief, and then you can run and T his play with a lot of children like may find his belief som ewhat sh ak we would not even show to be fools and get a money order. is equal to two cents a week if you \ ourself. W on’t th a t he fu n ?” en by a d ish eartening failure. when its cu rtain was raised, acting gave it every time at S unday school I “ Oh, m y, yes! 1 can h ard ly w ait.” After years of labor it will seem to the part of fools, but drones, of no for six m onths. W hen the six So find enclose«! the money order use except lor reproduction of our m onths is up, papa will give you for fifty cents, which please give to him th a t the grand old car has useless kind. fifty cents a;-aii>, and by so doing your S ecular Sunday School and never budged; th a t its golden None of us are perfect, nor in you will do just the sam e as (hough you will hear from ue again. W ith wheels have m ired in the sloughs you lived in S ilverton.” And away good wishes to all th e pupils and of im m orality; th a t despite all of deed can we be in this stage of our she went on a double-quick t un to teachers of the S unday school, I But it our lives bis self-sacrificing and heroic efforts developm ent. get the money order. “ There it is, am, fratern ally , D r . L. S. S toll . have really been p artly m oral — the world of men and women daily more moral than wicked — if we grows worse. have actu ally tri« d t«» live bv the Surely there are hours in the . . . . , , . dictates of ourconscience, and from wav-worn tra v e le rs life, who has . , year to year tried to educate our fought the good right.— who has conscience to know the right, the worn away the im pulsive and ch i good, the pure and »he true, then m erical gaze <»f rosy-eyed youth, have we been doing som ething to and now secs with a (dearer vision, ward the elevation of our race and -w h en the ultim ate civilization have not lived in vain. But, oh, when we contem plate and moral reform ation of h u m a n ity seems so far aw ay in the future t i e stupendous ta k o f reform ing the im m oral dw arfs of hum anity that the brain grows weary in its th at breed and foster anm ng us, contem plation. we stagger and faint, and fain T ruly it is alm ost a heartless would rest in oblivion’.« dream to fight — a weary, d reary stru g g le - aw aken when a b rig h ter day shall daw n. b attlin g against the tide of crim e Yet we fill a niche in the m ighty and im m orality th a t sweeps over walls of tim e— arc building for tin o u r fair lan d . T h e th o u s a n d s , ave. fu tu re —and it is best that we trv m illio n s of ignorant hum an beings, lo build well. If the task seems being swirled on and on to their js n atu ra l to ‘- " ’uptime? , t stop and sigh and reflect th a t the m o ral doom m its a p 11 p a llin g 6 v o r f x , ’ m a te ria l i is rough, .. l onr b i a n d . s ten , d , er makes the heart trem ble with the :, nd bleeding, and the building up- crushing knowledge and to filte r «»o which we lab««r an unending by the wav of life, aod to ask itself, structure that will take countless whv the«« awful ih in as ahould bp. tl> a k " ’* » » -'"p b -w ith in which gods m av dwell. There are m en an d women who A nd th e L ib e ra l refo rm e r is but belicv- in a god with all power, hum an, a i d bis w av of building Tliev see these struggling hum an 'different from the way <»f the world, beings in this revolving vortex of 1 **’ r' is h ard er and tl.e . , , ,, , . more disheartening in the extreme. B u ild in g in C o u rse o f C o n s tru c tio n . . rim.- and woe, they fall u p o n tb P ir p u sh e(, fr()[n h js p |.,c„ anf, knees and p ray to God t h a t crim e ostracised by fanatics and the self- and m iseiv shall *e mt m ore— »bat praised good men. Is it world« r Î ■ 9 In sweep it from the land. But when h«J pauses and retie« ts on man - i tl.pv arise Ihpv Mill hear the w a ils.; h ..m an ity to m an? Is it wonder , , , th a t he is som etimes tem pted t< th p y rn an s, th p c u rs p s a n d screerb- pl„ „ g(, ¡„ lo w h irf ,| es of men an d women still being hum anity and give up the struggle swept on to m oral d eath anil ever- of reform ; th at he sometimes re lasting despair. solves to look out for num ber one 7 i regardless of th e rights of his fel- O, faith, thou art too weak, or the |()Wu:j Pupils are Given Every Opportunity to Learn Without C h ristia n ’s god h ath n«» power to Ah, but he is m ade out of Ini- Being Hampered by Superstitions and Dogmas. tu rn backw ard e’en the crooning n ian itarian clay th a t will not l»e zephyr’s b reath , though it bore moulded by the pott« r ’s band of sweet perfum es interm ixed with w ro,'K a J crime, and in the da*k- , . , , , est hour of despair his soul arises ina arm «eat i from their sickening depths of W hen we learn th a t the Chris- gloom and m ounts upon the w iig - tia n ’s god is powerless to stay the "I love tow anl the undying star "I tide of crim e, im m orality, and wo •, ¡,nPe 8 ^H’r *ky. and his arm T h e R e fo rm e rs R e tro s p e c tio n . 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