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TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JU N E 6, 1 *98.
ing beverage she went into a slate 1 do out of their money, and gets fee-
That in something that you can
of deep meditation which lasted for hie minded men and women to never explain to an honest man*
BY REV. OLD MORTALITY.
about twenty minutes. Then she make their wills in our behalf, how the assassination of an inno-
M y L ittle R ets :—Once more we ' addressed me in the following man- While all this is true, I am far cent man can “justify” the devibjv
from l>eing happy. I know’ that I and crimes of people who lived
have assembled in the name of ner:
. , horse sense and , , humanity.
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“ Dear hub” (when
Roxey
out of their nearlv two thousand vears aft*»
truth,
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Spring has opened . upon us. .... 1 he to get on the windward side of me hard-earned
, . . wages;
* . I know th a t I , his death.
pret.v little bird» have chosen their she i" v“riabl>' calls me dear hub), am tak.ng food d rin k , clo th . ngand |
uiatva, and kind nature has kissed
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i Reflections After Recreation.
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her warm embrace. Whilst all na- You perhaps have noticed that venting their little children from E ditor I orch ok R eason :
I have been on a fishing tour
ture is doing its best to make this Col. R. G. Ingersoll and sev- receiving an education —an educa-
country happy, I am sad; yes, I am eral Freethought papers and maga- tion that would enable them to for the last two months, and my
sad for Rev Mrs Roxev Jane Mor- z’nfeS 1,ave commenced to tell the earn a name and a home for the first question after returning was,
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One thousand preachers are out my absence, and what progress has
a cruel scheme to rob your parents does not nor never did answer
and send them unmourned to a prayers; th a t people of horse sense of a job in New’ York. One hun- it been making? It is all right. I
rely more and more upon their own dred churches are burned and de- hope, but I will not rest content
potter’s field.
Roxey Jane was instigated to do resources in order to eat and live, stroyed every year. One thousand until I find out for sure; and the
this evil by reading a passage in a Now in these latter days the Amei- preachers were sent tojail and pris- best way to do that is through free
late paper. I will now read you Iican divine '• compelled to rerort on during the past ten years. The inquiry.
One great writer says that “Pro-
the full particulars. Then you will to drastic measures in order to keep Torch of Reason is exposing this so-
know why I am sad. Then perhaps his church and organization intact. called holy bible and its wild and gress is our being’s molto and
you will pity your poor, unfortun As yet no man, woman or child has inhuman doctrines. The papers hope,” and that it is the duty of all
ate preacher, who is so effectually discovered what religious sect or and magazines are constantly show- to become enlightened. But how
under his wife’s thumb. Oh, wo denomination the god tht t the Jews ing us up in our true light. Verily, shall we attain this? .Jefferson says,
man, woman! why did you not fall created belongs to or favors. When it does behoove us to gather fruit through free inquiry. The poet
j Grey once wrote,
out of the apple tree and frighten a Catholic, Methodist, Baptist,Pres- while the sun shines.
My pets, in conclusion I will say, “Where ignorance is bliss ’tisfolly to lie
to death the snake that tempted hyterian, Lutheran or heathen joss
house stands in the way of wind, whenever you meet a school teach-
wise,’’
you to he such a sinner?
lightning, earthquake or fire, it is or take off your hats and give a but Mr. Grey should have remem-
HOW HE PAID TH E CHURCH DEBT.
To Father James Dougherty, rec wiped off the face of the earth, slick | kindly salute. When you come bered that ignorance in any true
tor of SI. Monica’s church, belongs and clean, and the sun, moon and upon a publishing house make sense is never bliss. No community
the credit of originating
iginating a very stars stop not to weep, nor do the vour best how unto it. For it is the i j8 in a blissful state that has a pre-
novel plan for the payment of a waters of the sea cease to ebb and school teacher and the printing ponderane^ of ignorance to contend
church debt. It is nothing less flow’. And yet this so-called all- press that is digging the grave to with.
These are perilous times in which
than to have the lives of eleven of powerful god is supposed to see bury us.
Little ones, get wisdom ami u n we are living. It is hard to tell
his parishioners insured, each nam .these churches and temples de
ing the church as the beneficiary. stroyed, and he stretches not forth derstanding if you have hopes of what a day may bring forth. More
In St. Monica’s parish are more his hand to save them, notwith becoming good men and women. money is being spent for the bene
than 10,000 Roman Catholics. The standing they were erected solely Also, be industrious, honorable and fit of the churches and for religious
parish property consists of a church, for his glory. There are over one tem perate in all things, then you purposes generally, more worthless
ministers are at work try ing to con
rectory, a sisters’ home and a hundred churches burned and de will be happy. Amen.
vert the world, more salvation
school. When the Rev. James stroyed every year in this so-called
armies, more Sunday schools of su
L ittle T orches.
Dougherty came from Kingston to Christian country, and this god von
perstition and young men’s Chris
take charge of tin; parish he found talk about has never been known
BY
W.
E.
JOHNSON.
tian associations, together with nu
a floating indebtedness of more to lay a foundation stone or tack
merous other devices too tedious to
than 8100,000. He decided to pay on a shingle.
What the poor need is sympathy.
“My dear hub, there certainly is — [D. L. Moody, quoted in Chris mention, all working for the Lord
it, and to do so he must have 8125,-
and the conversion of sinners, vet
000. Having obtained the permis something wrong in all this relig tian Herald.
sion of Archbishop Corrigan, lie ious business. But I suppose just
That is just like you Christians; at no time in the world’s history
tried to get it. None of the money so long as our dunderheads are sim when you find a hungry man, in- has crime in all its various forms,
ed institutions objected to lending ple enough to he freely bled, we stead of giving him something to right in the face of all this pretend-
ed religious endeavor, come out
hitn 8100,000 on bond and mort will have to bleed them. And now eat, you give him “sympathy”.
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gage, hut none were willing to give I come to the point. As J said, I
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him $125,000. But an official of think well of the plan that Father fear to meet Jesus._[Richmond u t”an R 1B at the present day.
More desperate and unnecessary
one of the institutions to which he James Dougherty pursued. So we ! Christian Advocate.
applied—a life insurance company will now select from among our
But your bible commands us to murders are committed, more bold,
—suggested that if he would pro Congregation a score or more of our fear God. Now when we do as told, willful robberies, more devices to
cure a certain amount of insurance most simple minded and have their you say it is a symptom of a deceive and defraud mankind, and
they would advance the amount lives insured for whatever amount “guilty conscience”. You are too still they insist on calling thi- a
needed. The idea struck Father we will he able to procure. We hard to please.
Christian nation. O Christianity,
thou art a jewel! See the state of
Dougherty favorably, and he dis- have bled them so effectually that
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cussed the matter with members of their lives are now of no further tution but to George Washington. affan'8 today. Two of the greatest
his flock. He proposed that some cash value io us. Deacon Bloodsaw the father of his country, who was so-called Christian nations the
of them should insure their lives and our old standby, Deacon Ball- a devoted churchman and commun- world ever knew engaged in a cruel,
for $10,000 each on the twenty-year dick, will assist us in enthusing
^aY Moran, in bloody war, in which thousands of
endowment plan, making the these people so everlastingly that * * ’ <>r •
lives will be sacrificed and millions
church the beneficiary in each case they will want to die right on the And Thomas .Jefferson, the unbe- of money spent, all for the glory of
and promising that the premiums spot and get a harp. And then, liever, who wrote the Declaration God. I wonder which side God is
should be paid from collections tak- we will inter the remains and bank of Independence, without which going to favor, if either; or is he
en up for that purpose. Many the cash!”
there never would have been any going to favor both sides aud laugh
clergymen and laymen at once
At this juncture Roxey laughed constitution,
at their calamity, and tell them to
offered to assist him. He soon ob long and loud. Perhaps there is
if Christ did not rise from among Pi,ch in’ for he “came not to bring
tained eleven 110,000 policies on no preacher in America that has the dead, then is our faith vaim peace, but a sword”. They are
the endowment plan.
such a companion.
Preachers’ 1 he Christian religion stands firmly carrying out his instructions to a
When the Rev. Mrs. Roxey Jane wives, so it is said, have much to foun(led °» this grand and irrefrag- fraction.
Mortality had read this novel par- contend with. As, for instance,
Jact that *'e 'vho waii cruVipe<J One writer says, “ We suffer much
agraph she ordered a cup of strong Roxey writes the bulk of my dis- our justification.—[Christian C<»m- froni the faults of others, but we
tea, and while she sipped the sooth- courses, ogles the rich and well-to-, monwealth.
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