T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , O R EG O N , T H U R SD A Y , JA N U A R Y G, 1898.
Scientific W isdom .
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lieved otherwise, for the belief of s a in t say, ‘‘Not my will, hut thy
»\TINCED from fifth page .
the one comes from the vote of the will be done.’’ This is the highest
other. \\ ho the peopb were th a t possible degree of perfection ‘in l he
By special arrangement with the pub-
, u alem? Nobody knows.
Have did all this, we know nothing of. sain t, and also in the dog, the Ite w io Z in g V ^ r - to u n d ’ V X
a true copy of the S ep tau gint. I hey called them selves hy the gen- horse, the parrot.
The dog, etc eent8 per copy, postpaid. Order one and
x body knows. W hat is the oldest era I name of the church, and th is lives not for itself, hut Its m aster; S “t i o n M e m t o n ' hT o S S l
manuscript of the bible we have in is all we know of the m atter.”
the perfect sain t dot's the same. U brary«
H ‘ w
1 ie
m anuscript
fne following from Boulanger, a The anim al keeps his eye upon his The New Man "at
ut have in Hebrew was w ritten in great h reneh historian, shows the m aster, and takes his every cue
Woman's Mistake. or, On a Margin. .
(he tenth century after C hrist. The opinions th a t prevailed am ong the from him ; the sa in t acts in exactly The I at'and’the T'hto.M.” . 'Ly"" U z 3 i
oldest pretended copy we have of different sects of C hristians at the th e same m anner. Indeed, there is At Market Value.............G r a n t Allen
the .^eptaiigint, w ritte n in G reek, tim e the lestam ent as we now see no difference w orth noting between The M inor'chord
J* ^I^C luuqde
was made in the fifth cen tu ry after it was voted to be the word of God: ! the best trained horse or d<>g and Buss B a r t ........................... J. M. Chappie
Christ.
“ I he M arciom sts, a C hristian sect, the best of saints; the m orality of Nance?a Kenulcky Belle.
•*X'.»w if the bible was divinely assum ed th a t the Evangelists were the one is exactly the m orality of Bitter Fruits......... [Illu s.j......... M. Caro
inspired, if it was th e actual word filled with falsities. The M aniche-| the other, though perhaps it is a x ™ m u " W*cy’s
of tiod, we have no au th en ticated ans, who formed a v ery n u m e ro u s b it more peif< < t .n the dog th an in Bill Nye’s Sparks . ..
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copy. The original has been lost, sect at the com m encement of Chris- the ex-m an. I say ex-m an, for the
and we are left in the darkness of tia n ity , rejected as false all the New saint has ceased to he a m an.
! Mas it Suicide? .. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nature. It is impossible for us to T estam ent, and showed other w rit-J A nother point must he m ention- Web t7 r’s ISl Pronouncing' ' h’ic tio n a iy .
10 CENT BOOKS
show that our n Bible
ib le is correct. ingS quite different, t hat they gave i **d. 1 he principal deed* of ihe l ’lust a ted. 350 pages ...............................
The C orinthians trai,,ed dog or trained horse are of ThePisappearance of Mr.. Derwent . Cobb
We have no stan d ard . Many of for au th en tic.
Sacrificed Love..............A lphonse D audet
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the hooks in our Bible co n tradict like th e M arcionists, adm itted not |
m a y a m u se , hut no f u r th e r The Last of the Van Slacks . . . . Van Zile
each other. M any chapters ap pear the Acts of the Apostles. The E r .- ; benefit accrues from them . It is Mark Twain, H is Life an d W ork
to he incomplete, and parts of dif- c rati tea and the Severians adopted , exactly the sam e with the saint The M ajor in W ash in g to n ...........................
Social E tiq u e tte ............ E m ily S. Bouton
ferent books are w ritten in the neither the Acts n«»r the epistles of H is prayers, fastings, flagellations,
A ddress,
penances,
etc
,
arc
all
as
absolute
same words, showing th at both Paul. C hrvostum , in a homily he
J O N E S ’ BOOK S T O R E ,
ly useless as actions could he. 291 A lder S t .
PO R TL A N D , O R E .
could not have been original. T he m ade upon the Acts of the Apostles, T ne flutterings of old rags in the
19th and 20th ch ap ters of 2nd says th a t in his tim e, about the wind are quite as ratio n al and
Kings, and the 37th and 38th y ear 400, m any people knew i<»th- quite as beneficial to th e w orld.
chapters of Isaiah are exactly the ing either of the author or the hook. They m erely m ark the lowest pos
same. So is the 38th ch ap ter of St. Irence, who lived before that sible level of slavery, on the one
hand, of ty ran n y on the other.
Isaiah from the 2d verst, the sam e tim e, reports th a t the V ale n tin
There is some excuse for the dog,
as the 18th ch ap ter of 2d Kings ians, like several other sects of etc. H is m aster is real, visible,
from the 2d verse. So it is per C hristians, accused tin ' scriptures tangible; he can feed and pet, he
fectly apparent th a t there could of being filled with im perfections, can scold and whip the poor CASH PAID FOR ALL K IN D S OF FAT STOCK,
have been no possible propriety in errors and contradictions.
The an im al; and his own experience
H ID E S , PELTS. ETC.
inspiring tin* w riters of Kings and Ehionites, or Nazarenos, who were proves th a t to him . I he saint, the
C h ristian , is dom inated by a p h a n
the writers of Chronicles. Some of Hie first Christian»*, rejected all the tom , a thing th a t never existed,
the Books do not agree either in epistles of Paul, and regarded him a ghostly scare-crow, a men* blind HEATS SOLD AT REASONABLE
fact or philosophy. They differ as as an im postor.
sentim ent. True, priest and p ar
RATES.
son are as real as the horse or dog
the men differed who wrote them .”
train er, hut the C hristian sees be
Thomas Paine savs:
‘‘These
hind his tra in e r and real owner a
Dogs, Horses, and C hristian
Drake & Webb,
books, he. inning with G enesis and
ghostly form or mist; it is this
M orality.
I which subdues him and robs him Silverton
ending with R evelations (w hich,
Oregon
of
every
spark
of
n
an
hood
and
by-the-by, is a bock of riddles th a t
C hristians boast as if they had
requires a revelation to explain it), m onopoly of m orality and good be virtue. The dog or horse sees no
ghostly thing behind his m aster,
are, we are told, the word of God. havior.
U u n fo rtu n atelv , all the ai d hence is a hit more rational
It is therefore proper for us to know facts are against them . T heir con- than the C hristian.
who told us so, th a t we m ay know duct is never better th an other peo-
W hat I wish to ask is, will any
AND
what credit to give the report. The pie’s but often much worse. And one say th a t the conduct of either
answer to this question is, th a t no- what th ey are pleased to call their
° r C hristian >R virtuous? Is it
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not pure, absolute slavery, as desti- M a i n S t r e e t - S i l v e r t o n , O r e .
body can tell, except th a t we tell m orality is m erely a set of actions
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v irtu e as the perform ance
one another so. Ih e case, howev- and thoughts set for them and pre- of a barrel organ or a musical box?
CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF
er, historically,' appears to be as scribed hy a superior, who will, j There can be no real virtue w ith-
follows: When the church m y th- they believe, reward them , on th e ; ^ut a m easure of independence for
School
ologists established th e ir svstem , one hand, or dreadfully punish ’,ts basis. Independence in the
W ater
Street...
M ark et
KINNEV
PORTER
Hy collected all the w rit.ngs
they could find, and m anaged them
as they pleased. It is a m atter t l -
together of un certain ty to us w heth-
er such of the w ritings as now ap-
pear under the nam e of the Old
and New Testam ent a r e in the same
state in which the collectors say
they found them , or w hether they
added, altered, abridged or dressed
them up. But be th is as it m ay,
they decided by vote which of the
hooks out of thecollection they l»a<i
made should he th e “ word of God”
and which should not. They re-
Jpcted several. They voted others
10 he doubtful, such as th e books
called the A pocrypha; and those
books which had a m ajority of
them , on the other.
therefore virtue in impossible to
Supplies,
T he best illu stratio n of the mor- them . “ Ye are not your own ” ap-
Books and
a lity of a real C hristian is seen in plies equally to both of them ; and
the case of trained anim als, horses, he who is not his own cannot he
S tationery.
dogs, etc. The entire round of ac- '* r , u °uN ‘hough he m ay be abso-
tions perform ed by an educated dog
[¡'".‘J ^he».s'g^d, had“ Dealers in Fruits, Vegetables
or horse, a parrot or other bird, is j or indifferent, T h at is all.— [Lih-
prescribed by the owner or trainer, erator
and Confectionery.
So it is with the C hristians. The :--------
d"g or other trained anim al has no
a»
stan d ard of right and wrong except
Mow
to
M
ake
th at of its m aster and exhibitor. So
is it with the C hristian. I he ani-
mal never reasons upon the m at-
* The Government nationalized the Postal System, whv not also
ter; neither does the C hristian.
the Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD
The sole m otive of th e anim al is to
in his book e n title d ..............................
please his m aster for the sake of re
U N C L E S A M ’S
ward; and th a t is the sole motive
of th e C hristian.
T he more per
xa
notes were voted to be the word of fectly the dog or other anim al is
God. Had they voted otherwise, broken in, or train ed , the less inde-
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’Ives C hristians would have lie- the C hristian.
Both anim al and
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