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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1898)
■ THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST II, ISIS. ¿hristianity, C h urch ian ity, and mandate, neither did he denounce KINNEY PORTER H u m an ity. a te r S treet.. M arket polygamy, one form of licentious ness, which was common among all '(included from 3d page.) AND the nations of his dav, not except- broken, being as malleable as lead. ing hif8 own> thp Jewg, God,g The art of mixing painters’ colors, en peopk And Jater paul the S ilv e r to n , O re M a in S t r e e t ofa brilliancy and durability which great apo8tle tQ whoIn the Chrie_ no mixer of paints in this age can tians Of all times and places look CASH PAID FOR ALL K IN D S OF FAT STOCK, CARRY A C O M PL E T E STOCK OF rival. v,a' known four thousand for authority in church ordi- H ID E S . PELTS FTC years ago. In the art of engineer- nances anj doctrines, said: “Wives i„g, we of this age are hut pigmy Bubmit yourselves unto your hus- S chool iniitators of long-silent races, says panj s a8 p ¡g ¡n the Lord” (Gal. S u p p lie s , Buel, a Christian writer. The sci- — “Let the woman learn in H E A T S S O L I) A T R E A S O N A B L E ence of mathematics had been per- siience,with all subjection” (1 Tim. B o o k s a n d fected by the pagans long before x* suffer not a woman to RATES Christ. Euclid has never been ex- teach„ (1 Tiin< xi 12). “Likewise, S ta t io n e r y . celled by any Christian mathema ye wives, be in subjection to vour tician. The ancient Egyptians were own husbands” (1 Peter iii. 1). I familiar with the science of astron Thus it has been under bible teach Dealers in F ru its, V egetables D ra k e & W e b b , omy, as also the ancient Mexicans ing; women have been held in sub- and C onfectionery. Silverton Oregon and Peruvians were well skilled in jection to man And today almost astronomy, architecture, painting ^,)e e)1|jre Christian church holds and sculpture. Literature, like- woman jn servile subjection. She F O R S T N E R 'S ^ > iVo, - l- Z'l wise, had attained a very high de- js no( aj]owe(] to teach, i. e., preach L gree of proficiency with the pagan from the pulpit, not allowed to be nations. Poetryf rhetoric, oratory a prjegt, deacon, bishop, nor act as and grammar had been pm fected | a Jay delegate in church councils to by the pagan Greeks and Romans.! 8peak for the church which she . . . IS INVALUABLE TO . . . 3. M orality .—History speaks of more largely represents and keeps C a r p e n t e r s a n d J o in e r s , for m o rtis the purest of morals taught by pa alive by her labor and personal ing, such as le ttin g in locks, as it tak es the Honesty, probity sacrifices than most of its ma le place of chisel am i gouge; to gan teachers. and sexual purity were extolled by members. In fact, were it not for C a b i n e t M a k e r s , f° r inlaid w ork, scores of ethical teachers centuries woman’s labors in its behalf the dow elling, p atch in g , rem oving sp lits am t knots. In fact, no wagon o r p a tte rn m aker, before Christ. Pythagoras (550 B. church would die of inanition. m an u factu rer of pianos, organs, sew ing m achines, a g ricu ltu ral im p le m e n ts, sash , C.) taught temperance and pointed The fact is, as history informs blinds, fu rn itu re , nor ANY O T H E R W OOD W O R K E R , should he w ith o u t it. out its great advantage«. He us, that woman has elevated her AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNKQUALED. UVl praised virtue and condemned vice. self to her present status in spite of it is th e only ronm l bit in th e world th it ‘•To wives,” says Charles Rollins, a the church. Every move she has will bore a Christian historian, “he recom made in conjunction with the more j y , mended the virtues of their sex, liberal and broad-minded men to -! chastity; to the youth, profound ward an »quality with mao, the and do all th a t any o th e r hit will do. respect for their parents, and con church has opposed and appealed PRICES. vinced the ladies that their true or to the bible for its authority to do Set of five, differen t sizes, p o s tp a id .. .$2.60 nament was, not fine clothes, but so. Single b it, p o s tp a id ........................................ 60 unspotted virtue.” “H ’s maxims of Christianity, like all other forms morality,” says Rollins (vol. 2, p. of religion, is conservative in its A .K ir.RB, LIBERAL U N IVER SITY C l L, 560) “were admirable to render m en nature and essence. It entrenches S il v e r t o n , O er o o n like God”. In fact, all the moral itself behind the bulwarks of dog precepts now included in the Chris mas, faiths, tenets and creeds that ì r o 'V u r ì r o 'T ì r o 'V O ' tian creeds were taught by diverse have been established by a “thus ( 0 pagan priests and philosophers saith the Lord,” and from that en- / ° long before Christ’s time. In mor trenehment priestcraft has fulmin als Chris; taught nothing new. ated its anathemas upon the Free Egyptian morals taught the soul, thinkers, which, like a shell of gun itt its defense before Osiris, to say: cotton, has exploded its brimstone ‘T have not been idle; I have not missiles of hellfire, frightening the been intoxicated; I have not told timid souls who have not yet learn- secrets; I have not told falsehoods ed to think for themselves or have I have not caused tears; I have nOt the courage to express their given food to the hungry, drink to opinions. Such tactics is Church- the thirsty and clothes to the nak- ianity, called Christianity. It is w ed.” What more admirable could (Be slow evolving of man’s higher he taught the young? 1 capabilities, the unfolding of his ! W z 4. W oman ’ s E quality with M an . intellectual powers, contending There is not a civilized nation on against the intolerance of priest- earth, Christian or pagan, that puts craft, that is leading him on to a woman on an equality with man. higher civilization. It is his Hu- The Christian religion specifically inanity that is battering d o w n the denies woman an equality with walls of Churchianity. W. V. L. man The bible declares that Eve, who desired to become wise, incur- A man is a coward who will not red the curse of God by eating the hear both sides—\\ endell Philips, forbidden fruit. For that sin, the eating of an apple, God said: “I Remember if you send us the will greatly multiply thy sorrows names and addre.— Silverton, Oregon. i . J . • vour Liberal friends and acouaint- and thy u we will make you a present . JUUl JUL2- JLÖJUI JULSUULA. JL2JL JL O . ¡ 3 / conceptions; * ’ in sorrow j arices, Auger Bit SQ U A RE HOLE T n rm n r W H t ) M A K ES OUR q SHOES? > •! 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