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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 189:
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Note and Comment.
observers report sufficient food in
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In d ia for all.
But it is not in the
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h an d s of those who produced it. and
depression are favorable to religious
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the
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alone
are hungry,
revival.
Is th is why we are ex- n
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h *’ lndeed “ h ard sh ip , »1-
haven’t got?
,K a' 8 " " d , * ' - 7 » here, but Chria-
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gland s spoliation
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m ust
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hear a large share, if not the whole,
A voluntary com m ittee will col­
of the blam e for actual starv atio n
lect and exhibit a t the trans-M issis­
in In d ia. ______
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sippi exposition a t O m aha, as an
evidence of prosperity, a car-load
T he F all of H a n .
of cancelled K ansas m ortgages. Of
C O N TIN U ED FROM F IR S T PA G E.
course if they cannotcollect enough against it. W ith such a com bina­
of the genuine article for th eir p u r­ tion of faculties could there be an v
pose, paper and p rin tin g are cheap conflict in the m ind, an y debate,
fanother evidence!) and they can any tem ptation (i. e., tension)? It
add spurious copies at pleasure.
would surely be an argum ent of
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only one side; a sim ple decision of
“Conscience is m ade to direct the m oral faculties. The bare m en­
man, and not m an to direct con­ tion of so terrible a crim e would
v in ce,” says a religious exchange. shock such a nature.
Now, if the
But the fact rem ains th a t m an does I reader will picture to him self a
not only direct conscience, but, so m ind in which the m oral faculties
far from its being a som ething ere- exert a sim ilar restrain in g power
ated and set up in him as an infal- over all the inferior propensities,
lible guide, be him self creates or he will have the idea of a perfect
develops it, just as he has develop- m ental governm ent.
ed every o th er m ental an d m oral
I f A dam possessed such a perfect
attribute.
Conscience is but the m ental equipm ent he would not
reflection of m an ’s ideas of right and could not have sinned, because
and wrong—an effect, never a cause perfection im plies com plete moral
grows out of his experience and | restrain t. On the other hand, if he
changes with the altera tio n of his
opinions.
W ere it the fixed and
infallible th in g supposed in the quo-
tation, m en’s opinions of rig h t and
wrong could not c h a n g e — in fact,
they could have no opinions on
ethical points, being merely vassals
to conscience or outlaw s against it.
But conscience in the orthodox
sense is n othing more nor less th an
fear.
The “conscience-stricken”
sinner sim ply quakes in fear of the
was created imperfect, in yielding
| to sin he would have undergone no
co n stitu tio n al change.
T hat is to
say, if he sinned in de<d he was a
sinner in thought before he com-
m itted an y outw ard act, and must
have been originally endowed with
a sinful nature. Or, in still other
words, he must have been depraved
before he fell, or he would not have
fallen, and being already sinful, of
course he did not fall when* he
vengeance of his god, and the feel-| sinued.
mg is the sam e in the pagan d e ­
The bilde teaches that Adam fell.
votee as in the C h ristian .
If he was created per fect the idea of
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, the fall is absurd
If be was creat-
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W e have the h sson of In d ia as it , e<l in M'e»Fct, h e
then, in sinning,
siniply acted out the n atu re with
which he was endow ed, ami m an i­
fested a will which was necessarily
evolved from his inherent organiz­
ation and his environm ents. In
the la tte r case God would have
been
directly
responsible
for
A dam ’s transgression.— [T h e Brain
and the Bible.
applies to religious m yths.
No­
body believes in a god who could
su p ernaturally intervene to save
India. T h at day has passed. True,
t hristians still claim om nipotence
for their god, hut it all applies now-
a d a y s in a m etaphysical sense.
He still works m iracles in people’s
E m b o sse d in G old.
hearts, but he has resigned his po­
To buy and reproduce fam ous p aintin g s
sition as w eather-regulator. All involves an e x p e n d itu re th a tc o u ld h a rd ­
c iv iliz ed people un d erstan d th a t ly be Irorne, unless, as in th e ease of the
Y o u th ’s C om panion, th e e n te rp rise is
fl< <>ds and d rouths are due to caus- su stain ed by tire approval of m ore th an
with w hich no god can interfere ; ^ve h u n d re d th o u san d su b scrib ers. The
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trnlhseekers? and m ost costly ex am p les of th is form of
Would In d ia b*- in her h e lp le s s a r t - Y et every new su b scrib er receives
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r\ 1 ng c o n d itio n if free from th e the pa|,er is sent free to new subscribers
domination of rent an d tax gather- ever.v week fr° m l he tim e th e subscrip-
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tion is received u n til Ja n u a ry , 1898, and
Has not landlordism render- then for a full year to Ja n u a ry , 1899.
pd her helpless and unable to pro- . The pop u lar price of the C om panion,
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$1.75 a y ear, and th e c h a ra c te r of its
• against calam ity ? Even in co n ten ts, m ake it a pap er for every
f th 1, e n tiio>t
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prom ised for th e fifty-tw o n u m b ers to be
toilers stripped
issued d u rin g 1898. The R t. lio n . W.
v» ry verge of w hat they now suffer [;• ¡dadstone, the H on T hom as B.
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