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 . 4 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 . .. ............................ 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 * V > ? . . r i ' ^ r x ' x. r ^ l T The M a aharajah’s ’. .Indian „ l|e M h a ra ja h ’s G G u u e e s st.. t----- In d ian E Exile xile 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 . i, , .i . . n , x r • 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 • 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