T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON , TH U R SD A Y , JA N C A R Y G, 1S98.
A R em arkable W ill.
friend of Col. Ingersoll, who wrote
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the preface to his volume of Liberal
writings.
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New York, Ja n . 4.— One of the
Profane Jokes.
most rem arkable wills ever tiled in
the office of (he surrogate is th at of F rom th e London E rec tb in k er.]
I be following obituary notice ap
Henrv M orehouse Tabor, offered
for probate today.
In spite of the peared in an Aniciican paper:
“ The wife of the R e v . J. Dolittle
fact that Mr. T abor was president
listened to her husband’s preaching
and treasurer of the board of tru s
on S unday last, and died in con
tees of the first P resbyterian church,
vulsions the following Tuesday
in the opening clause of his will he
afternoon.”
denounces all religion as a sham
and as having its origin in super
Mrs. J o n s in g .— “ Am Pahson
stition. He requests th a t no serv
Jackson ve’v eloquent?’’
ice- be held over his body, and th a t
Mrs. W hitew ash.— “ Am he elo
it be crem ated.
quent? Oh, my! I wish yo’ could
Mr. Tabor died C hristm as eve at
the age of 73. Two children, Sid hab heard his sermon las’ Sunday
’bout Balaam a n ’ de ass— vo’ could
ney Richmond T abor and Mary
Tabor, survive him , ami to them alm ost ’magine yo’ heard de ass a-
R espectfully invite you to visit
talk in ’.”
the estate, valued at over $1,000,-
th eir establishm ent and con
000, is given absolutely. The will
vince yourself th at they are
“
My
text,
dearly
beloved
breth
is in the h an dw riting of the testa
show ing the greatest line of
ren,” said a m inister in a western
tor, and says:
( le n c r a l M erchandise in Marion
town enjoying a land boom, “ will
‘ Relieving th a t all religions, in
county at popular prices.
be found in the gospel according to j
cluding C h ristian ity , are supersti
Mail ord *:s given prom pt atten tio n .
St. M atthew, lot six, block ten.”
tions; th at the basic doctrine of the
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Christian religion, t h e ‘fall of m an ’, And then the congregation settled
is utterly and absolutely false, and hack to sleep and dream ed th a t a
that its opposite, the rise of man railroad ran through the place and
S ilv e rto n , Oregon.
from the lower orders, is a scientific eastern buyers of real estate were
fact; that belief in the (so-called) as plentiful as chinch hugs on a
K ansas farm.
miracles are hallucinations of the
brain, ami never had the slightest
A strong-m inded ami loquacious
existence in fact; th a t the chief
characteristics of w hat is term ed old lady was arguing strongly the
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other
day
for
women's
rights
in
the
!
the ‘word of G od’ is injustice, cru
elty, u n truthfulness and obscenity; wav of preaching, when an obi dea
that the effect of orthodox C hristian con attem pted to put her down b\
teaching is to encourage ignorance, rem arking that St. Paul once gave
selfishness, narrow -m indedness, ac it as his opinion that women should
Corner Main and W ater Streets,
rimoniousness, intolerance, wrong rem ain silent in church. “ Oh, did
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and mental slavery; th a t C hristi- he?” retorted the obi dame, sharp
anity (so-called) is not the religion ly. “ Well, th a t’s where me and
of Christ; that it su p p lan ts ethical Paul differ; and if lie were here I’d
culture and true m orality with tell him the sam e thing to his very
D E A L E R S IN
meaningless theology and unbeliev face.”— [Ex.
able dogmas; th a t it puts an un
known (am i probably unknow able)
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imaginary being in the place of na plished fact in the E astern district.
ture; th at it gives a name and per Spain has not tho power to over-
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sonality to evil, an equally un throw it, nor to hold for long th«* j
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known and im aginary being; that sm all p a rt still under its despotic ______
it so works upon the incredulity of sway, kept in subjection by fo rce of
its adherents as to create in them a arm s, being fenced in by a troeba
fear of (th a t most horrible of doc of forts and m ilitary c a m p s . —
trines) eternal punishm ent; I say, [S tatesm an.
believing all these, in all kind
ness and in all earnestness, I re
quest that over mv rem ains there
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be no religious services of any kind,
nature or description whatever.
“ I also request th a t my ho ly be
cremated at Fresh Pond, or some
other crem atory, and th at all of my
W e W ill Do I t F or You
ashes be left there.”
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The above was taken from the
a-'oeiated press dispatch. W e can
not believe th a t Mr. Tabor was al
the time of his d eath connected
with orthodoxy in anv wav, a l
though at o n etim e he was religious
and may have been connected with
church work. At the time of his
9path he was connected with Liber
al organizations, and was a Wann
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