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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST II, ISIS.
¿hristianity, C h urch ian ity, and mandate, neither did he denounce
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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
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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
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rival. v,a' known four thousand for
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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
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ence of mathematics had been per- siience,with all subjection” (1 Tim.
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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.
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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
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wise, had attained a very high de- js no( aj]owe(] to teach, i. e., preach
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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
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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
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unspotted virtue.” “H ’s maxims of
Christianity, like all other forms
morality,” says Rollins (vol. 2, p. of religion, is conservative in its
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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 !
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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
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will greatly multiply thy sorrows names and addre.—
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