T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , A P R IL 7» 1898.
The Known an d U nknow n.
relate what has been revealed dif­
ferently.
lalniage undertakes to
ir T orch of R eason :
tell us how the old woman looks in
J went to church last Sunday and heaven. Can he tell us what he
)i. d the same old ‘‘chestnut sto- knows, or is it a picture from his
‘‘Moses and the prophets” , im agination?
We all know th at
••('.list and him crucified” , and he has a wonderful im agination,
.. very one thought it exquisite ex- and th at he draw- very heavily on
, ,¡>1 myself. It was not even tol- it sometimes, for he does not give
erably good, to my th in k in g ; for j us any facts on the subject at all.
the preacher did not express his
I would rath er have Miss Kate
approval of one m oral act. It was D el’eatt and Miss Grace G ruber
nothing hut religion all the way tell us what they know about this
through- I can tolerate a sermon world and what all of us ought to
when the m inister will lecture his do, th an Talm age and 500 more
hearers on m orality — tell us how like him , though they are quite
to live in this world. I think ev­ young and he is quite old. He has
ery ra tio n a l being has some idea spent his life trying to find out the;
ia
,
u r-n
of how he ought to live, hut it is unknowable, ami now we know » . . . j k
.
,
1 upils are (o v en Every
O p p o rtu n ity to Learn
W
ith o u t
p
u ,. .
if
c*
... •
,
well to be rem inded of these things from the course of n atu re th at he
...
,
hieing H am pered
by / S up
erstitio n s and Dogmas,
i
i
s
by those we have confidence in. I will soon “ sleep the sleep th a t i
think all reasonable, sensible peo­ knows no w aking”, and yet he
ple ate hound to adm it th at when a doesn't know that he has ever giv­
m inister tells us th a t religion is the en us one fact on a subject th at
good to which all things tend; has consumed all, or nearly all, of
which gives to life all its im port­ his life.
I have just received the T orch
ance; that he knows w hat he is
Mrs.
Bliven’s and A Splendid ('o rp s of Teachers and Good F acilities
talking about, and will have confi­ and read
f< >r
dence in th at much of what he is Mr. W ilson’s articles on Scien­
Teaching.
For inform ation, address
tific
Wisdom
and
M
orality.
I
think
teaching. I have loved to listen to
J. E. HOSMER, Ph.D., B.S.D , President,
good advice all my life, hut the there is a great deal of good, sound
SILVERTON.
OREGON.
logic
in
both
articles,
and
th
at
all
older I get the less patience I have
with m inisters who preach now thinking, re soiling m inds will ac­
And it is
as they did fifty or sixty years ago. cept them in th a t light.
1 think it an insult to the audience. so plain th at we cannot think they
D E A LER S IN-
He is e ith e r ig n o ra n t h im self o r be­ say one thing and mean another.
If I could sell my land for a n y ­
lieves his hearers to he.
The m inister above referred to thing like half its value I would
has regular appointm ents at this gladly do so and move to O regon;
place.
He superceded a much but I could not get an y th in g like
Corner Main and W ater Streets,
w
hat
it
cost
me.
This
would
he
a
smarter man than he is himself.
SIL V E R T O N , O RE.
The people did not like th e sm art i desirable country to live in if cot-
man because he was not orthodox ' ^on were a good price and we had
enough for them , so swapped him a Sood »Y^em of labor. 1 have the
oil for one who could tell them all j gre a ^es*t abundance of fruit.
A
D E A L E R S IN
about w hat he knows nothing | dozen f«n‘*lies could not consume
LIBERAL
UNIVERSITY
T H E O N LY S C H O O L OF T H E K IN D
F ree from S uperstition
S trictly N on-Sectarian
L o c a tio n H e a lt h fu l
S o c ie ty G o o d .
E x p e n s e s M o d e ra te .
C u s ite r & D a v e n p o r t
....G E N E R A L Zi|E R C H A N D ISE
Hicks & Aines.
about himself. I was really am us- the Pear8 and M on '"Y ,,omp
ed last Sunday at his ardent adm ir- ‘ Place- M-V yard is a mass of heati-
ers nodding assent to every word | tiful fl()WertJ and my garden per-
he said, when in reality lie had said Iec^Y green.
nothing. The discarded m inister,
I have never had hut one person
whom I heard once, to my think- refuse to take Liberal papers
ing preached the best sermon th at! wheu 1 cirer l,'e,n ’ a,,d th a t was a
was ever preached at W askom. H e | nervous old m aid.
As nice people
took his text, hut did not refer to it vi®L nie as the countiy affords, and
in his sermon, or at least I do not 1 keeP mY Freethought literature
remember th a t he did.
He gave
gave b ’ing around where all can see it.
beautiful advice to his hearers, es- I show it to them and explain the
pecially to the young people, ex- best I can m any things they did
pressed his ideas very eloquently of not know before. It is quite a new
how they should conduct them ­ thing to most of them , and some of
selves in this world, how' they them try to close their ears to my
'hould m anage to m ake a success little lectures, hut that doesn’t set
of life in all their business relations, me hack any. It wotild not in the
how to be kind and ch aritab le— least, even if it caused me to be
charity for the faults of others; and friendless, so long as I do not give
all together I th o u g h t his talk them any other reason for disliking
worth listening to. But the church me. I feel th at it would m ake me
people wem ed to th in k because he very m iserable to give any one juet
did not tell them a n y th in g about cause t0 t!,ink 1 ha<1 for(eited the
heaven nr the ha,I place, th a t he right to be esteemed by my friemle.
was not wise enough to he a preach-
C E lton Blan<;hard
,o ' e‘
er. I have heard them eay they Plore the tardi,,ess
Freethought,
know *1.0 r .
k
1
' but I do not. It is very true that I
Know
the
preachers
know
some-
.
. to meet . persons
„ . o ,..k^.
i
, .
1 .
would love
who tie-
•nng of w hat is beyond the grave, Jieve ag j do> for j know it would
know th at God has revealed these pe quite pleasant and agreeable,
things to every oue who has been and often wish I could go where
regenerated. But it is strange to there are some who are as outspok-
- ihat the revelath.., „f . „cl, a n d * “ ’
— 5 —
• very one is different, for they alL
( continued ox
sixth page .;
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