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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1898.
r e Lord had commanded Moses.—
f Num. xv. 32-37.
The H appiest Being E x istin g .
If popular theology is correct,
Read Deuteronom y xxi. 18-21,
the devil is the happiest being in
and xxv. 5-9.
existence, because it teaches that
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to the devil takes supreme delight in
}jve_ [E x . xxii. 18.
winning souls away from God. A
If a man take a wife and her mo- being that is constantly delighted
rher, they shall be burnt with fire, : is of course happy— cannot other
¿,.th he and they.—[Lev. xx. 14.
wise be. And, per contra, God is
Thev shall spoil those that spoil- the most miserable benig, because,
el them, and rob those that robbed as orthodoxy teaches, God is angry
them, saith the Lord God.—[Ezek. with the wicked every day; that be
xxxix. 10.
delights not in the death of the
And ve shall eat of the flesh of wicked. And again, the bible says
vour sons, and the flesh of your anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
v daughters shall ye e a t.— [ Lev.
Now if God is angry with the wick
xxvi. 29.
ed every day, according to the bible
And thou shalt eat the fruit of God must be a fool.
thine own body, the flesh of thy
W. F. B.
sons and of thy daughters which
the Lord thy God hath given thee
Secularists, would you m»t like t<
—[Deut. xxviii. 53.
(So we boiled my son and did eat have some letter heads printed with
Secular sentiment and Wettstcin’s
him —[II. Kings vi. 29.)
(The hands of the pitiful women Freethought badge, to use in cor
have sodden their own children; respondence with your friends?
thev were their meat in the de We will furnish them to you with
struction of the daughters of my
people. The Lord has accomplish your name and address printed on
them for 75 cents per hundred,
ed his fury.—[Lam. iv. 10-11.
$1.50 for 250, or $2.50 for 500 post
And if a man cause a blemish in
his neighbor, as he hath done, so paid. Let the people know when*
shall it be done to him; breach for you stand.
breach, eve for eye, tooth for tooth;
as he has caused a blemish in a
man, so shall it be done to him
again.—[Lev. xxiv. 18-20.
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Thus saith the Lord, behold, I '
frame evil against you, and devise a
device against you.—[Jer. xviii. 11.
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Bureau
I make peace and create evil. I
the Lord do all these things.—Isa.
xlv. 7.
In view of the above commands,
is it any wonder this god should
exclaim, “Therefore I gave them
statutes that were not good, and
judgments whereby they should not
live”?
Amesbury, Mass.
S y m p o siu m .
CREATED, OR EVOLVED?
A man put in possession of his
complicated body by ci eat ion would
be like a new-born babe set to man
age the municipal affairs of Chica
go; he could do nothing with it.
Evolution would teach him the use
of each organ as occasion required
its addition or modification.
I saac A. P ool .
Chicago, III.
Neither one. Nature is eternal.
Let me prove it: O . . . . O ..........
. continued ad infinitum. First
D represents present time. Six fol
lowing periods each 1000 (or 1,000,-
B00) years. Second <) represents
the hypathctical “ beginning”, or
when the evolution of nature is
supposed to have commenced.
Each of the following periods, an
endless series, represents a billion
years, or the prior eternity. Like
causes produce like effects. All
existing causes during eternity hail
not created or evolved a solitary
thing. Ergo: such causes could
never have produced anything.
O tto W ettstein .
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