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T H E TORCH OF^REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , AUGUST 11, 1898.
C h r is t ia n it y ,
that tim er
C h u r c h ia n it y
and
“ ‘I don’t know, sir.”
H u m a n it y .
<» ‘Well, we will soon find out, for
C hristian preachers of today
I an. now going to han d you over
claim th at to the teachings of him
to the custody of the law .’
.. Oh, please don’t, dear sir! of whom Moses in the law and the
j,¡ease don’t!’ he begged. ‘I have Prophets did write, Jesus of Nazar-
rot all the money I stole, and will
^ ie 8011
Joseph, is due our
return it to you if you will n o t , h’?her civilization the greater d e - '
velopm ent of the arts and sciences; i
have me arrested?
a purer m orality: and the elevation
“ ‘Where is the m oney?’
of women to an equality with m an.
“ In my tru n k , in my room ?
•• -Get up and we will go to your
this I deny and defy a success*
rOom? said Mr. H ughes.
tnl contradiction of this denial. I
“ We three then went to his room, a PPea^ t0 history for support of mv
•u.d from the bottom of his tru n k P o t io n . C hristianity has been on
he took a large package of notes
^” r over eighteen hundred ,
¡ng from one to five dollars, .v e a r'*» certainly a sufficient length
a n / handed them to Mr. H ughes, of tim e to establish these claim s if,
with the rem ark th at th a t was all indeed, true.
Now to the testi-
• t
he had stolen.
‘‘The money was counted, and
amounted to nearly four hundred
¡o]j.,rs
“ ‘Now, sir,’ said Mr. Huges, ‘so-
ciety m ust be protected, and crim -
inals m ust he punished — so I am
going to hand you over to an
ojpJcer >
! m ony-
T he H igher ( ivilization .—
civilizations of m any peoples
| prior to the birth of Jesus were pro-
je s s in g finely. Many nations had,
at
a<J vent of Jesus, acquired a
civilization far superior to the suc-
ceeding C hristian civilizations for
! over a thousand y e a rs—from about
♦ Vi fourth to the fifteenth centu-
“ ‘Oh, dear sir, do please take
e
pity on me!’ groaned the fellow. 4 / ¡ e e - d u r i n g what Is called the
have given you hack all, every, cent D ark Ages, a peiiod when Chris-
I took, an d I solem nly prom ise you t'a n ity dom inated ail E urope and
1 will never do wrong again. Please Pa r,s ,d Asia and Africa,
don’t have me arrested, sir.’
! D u rin « " le8e '^ p lo ra b le years of
‘“ I will listen to no en treaties,’ » » rs for opinion’s sake, of persecu-
said his m aster, sternly.
: tlons for hereey ’ whftn crown and
crosier were in alliance against
•‘ •Well, if I must be arrested, s o !cr08,er
be it, said Silverton, as he sank m an’s inalienable rig h t to speak
down upon a seat and appeared I and write his own th o u g h ts — a
to he hum bly resigned to his fate. rig h t th a t, un til those soul-blight­
But th a t was only a ruse, for the ing ages, had never been denied to
next m inute he dashed through the any considerable extent — the p a­
door and ran down th e stairs at gan world had become more liberal
breakneck speed.
I was about to and tolerated all religious opinions
start after him , but Mr. H ughes, — the very essence of civilization.
who is a kind m an a t h eart, called
,
,
eral, there is the greatest civiliza-
me back.
’
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lion. Behold th a t principle at
•“ Let him go,’ he said, ‘let him to(Jay
the countrieB in which
go. An arrest would certain ly ru in , he c h ris tja n UnetB are , he ,nost
him, and perhaps he will strive intensp> rigid an{, bjndjngi civiliza.
henceforth to live an honest l n e ? ” (ion ¡g # t a stan (lsti„ or is retro.
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young deputy, which I filed aw ay those countries where there is the
among other detective docum ents, broadest toleration of opinions and
and thought no more of ihe m atter, the greatest liberty of conscience, is
Three years afterw ard I arrested a where we find the highest civiliza-
notorious pickpocket, known as tion. The most civilized nations
‘ Nimble
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my are those in which we find the
detective lad, chancing to see him , greatest num ber of F reethinkers
at once recognized him as Sam uel infidels, as C hristians, in the abun-
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S ciences .—H ere again th eir claims
New ages are begun by new men.
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or to the b irth of C hrist the arts
the past; the Jew s tried th a t nine­
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teen hundred years ago and missed
velous degree of perfection. A rchi­
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tecture had made wonderful pro­
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modern church is looking backw ard,
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