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TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVER'ION, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1897.
S c ie n tific W isdom .
TRACT NUMBER TWO.
DOES
C H R IS T IA N IT Y O R S C IE N C E
C IV IL IZ A T IO N ?
PROM OTE
LIBERAL
UNIVERSITY
ELIGION deals with worship, supernatural power, mirach s, pray­
ers and future life. Science deals with facis. human abilities
and this life. School books teach facts, hence are sci n ’ific.
Negro slaves had religion. Schools and self-dependence teach
• em science. Is Christianity or science civilizing them?
Miracles will not cook, plant, build, clothe or heal. People do scien-
ti work six days.
On Sunday tired mill operatives do home work,
dean up, visit, drink; religion forbids harmless out door pleasures,
iseums, reading-rooms and practical instruction, which science says
¡|,ev need for health, happiness and development.
Christianity teaches self-sacrifice, and sinfulness of worldly pleasures,
tempting from worship, forfeiting heaven’s everlasting happiness.
Christianity also teaches that earthly pleasures and possessions are
fleeting; toil and disease are inflicted to teach dependence on God;
death is the gateway to paradise or to perdition; “ many are called, hut
few are chosen” ; obey the bible, fill spare time with church work, and
“no harm shall come nigh thy dwelling ”
“From one erroneous idea ten thousand others germinate and become
-tock notions of the people.” These church teachings mislead millions
into distrust of scientific teachings, retarding reform, development, civ­
ilization. Science teaches that lightning, drouth and all natural evils
harm pious and unbelievers alike; most other evils, diseases and pover­
ty are due to ignorance, which mankind should overcome. Labor and
economy provide “for the morrow”, necessities, health ami enjoyments.
Harmless pleasures and possessions are realities; bible promises may he
air castles. Christians fear death, instinct and facts outweighing
religion. “Justice, integrity, humanity, and the other virtues, have
B u ild in g in C ourse o f C o n s tru c tio n .
been developed ‘by the practice of comradeship’ through long centuries
of social life.” “ Not trusty” ruins business, homes, g o v e rn m e n t.
T H E ONLY S C H O O L OF T H E K IN D
Civilization is evolution from ignorant, lawless savagery into orderly
co-operation for the general welfare, “multiplying the means of culture,
enjoyment, progress and achievement.” The world-renowned civiliza­
tion of pagan Greece and Rome far surpassed that of God-chosen Jeru­
salem, when science promoted industries, culture and morality. Wars
destroyed these and brutalized mankind.
Christianity overspread
Europe. “ The scarecrow of eternal punishment was the hall and chain ,
of Christianity” by which priests and kings tyrannized people into sub­
mission, poverty, ignorance, toil, self-sacrifice, to fatten themselves with
wealth, power, luxury, surfeiting, etc.
For 1300 years, through the
Dark Ages, Christianity’s bloody wars, fiendish persecutions and the
Inquisition kept science and civilization bound.
Luther, Galileo Pupils are Given Every O p p o rtu n ity to Learn W ith o ut
Being H am pered by S uperstitions and Dogmas.
and others exposed some church fallacies; science revived; civilization
advanced. Modern civilization is due to free schools, printing, inven­
tions. discoveries, statesmanship, arbitration ami all that hri lgs culture
of mental and moral abilities, bringing hygienic enjoyment, recompense,
for labor, and obliging people to regard the rights of others. Christians
condemn swearing, unlielief and Sunday recreation more than intemper­
ance, tobacco, and vote-selling. Which harm most?
Science teaches salvation from real sins.
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F ree from S uperstition
S trictly N on-Sectarian
L o c a tio n H e a lth fu l
S o c ie ty G ood.
E x p e n s e s M o d e ra te .
Then and Now.
A Splendid Corps of Teachers and Good F acilities for
the ship comes hack.
Teaching.
For inform ation, address
“ Yours in ye bowels of Christ,
J. E. HOSMER, Ph.D., B.S.D , President,
“ Rev. C otton M ather .”
SILVERTON.
OREGON.
Such was Christianity 200 years
ago, and the church is full of such
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tyrants today, especially among
the clergy.—[Freethought Ideal.
E. M., 297.
Youthful Philosophy.
S eptember 15, 1682.
“ Y e A ged and B eloved M r .
J ohn H igginson .—There he now at
sea a ship called the Welcome which
has on board a hundred or more of
the heretics and malignants called
Quakers with W. Benn, who is the
chief scamp, at the head of them..
A little child having been told
The general court has accordingly
that she must not play on Sunday,
given secret orders to Master Mala­
and all the toys being put away,
SILVERTON, OREGON.
chi Huscott of the brig Porpoise to
sat down and watched the kitten
waylay the said Welcome slily, as
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playing with its tail. Then she re­
near the Cape of Cod as may he
proved pussy for playing on Sun­
and make captive the said Penn
Enclosed find.................................. Dollars to assist in the
day, w’hen the mother said: “ It is
and his ungodly crew, so that the
not wrong for pussy to play w ith its
Construction of the Liberal University at Silverton, Oregon.
Lord may be glorified and not
tail, my dear; God gives it its tail
mocked, on the soil of this new
Yours for Progress,
to play with.” Then the child,
country, with the heathen worship
clasping her chubby little hands as
of these people
in prayer, cried: “O Dod, dive me ►
“Much sj>oi 1 can be made by sell­
a tail to play with on Sunday!”
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ing the whole lot to Barbadoes
what you can, and forwatd
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where slaves fetch good prices in
We will send the T orch of R eas ­
J. E. HOSMER, President,
n ’m and sugar, and we shall not on one year to five new subscribers
Silverton, Oregon.
only do the Ix»rd great service by for $3.75, and the party getting up
punishing the wicked, hut shall the club will receive fifty visiting
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and people.
the famous Wettstein badge heauti-
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and I will set down the news when the name.
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