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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1898.
meadows, fields, roadsides thickly
“It is too bad,” she exclaimed,
C ount Tolstoi, Religion and
I $ OUR SECULAR STORY $ ! strew n with the dead and dying “he was so handsome! hut of course
Science.
men, who but a moment before were he cannot expect me to keep mv
BY MBS. M. M. TURNER.
strong and active, Hushed with engagement now. He cannot think
Crippled for Life.
health, and now, lying there so that I will.”
In his preface to a pamphlet hv
But he did half hope that she
Crippled for life! None are able to stark and still—Oh! it was dreadful!
Edward Carpenter, Count Tolstoi
Batteries, their pieces all powder- would, for she was very dear to
fathom the exact meaning of those
gives science a severe “ hauling over
words save they, who, in the morn- stained, and artillery-men, pale, him.
the coals”. He says:
ing hours of life, with fresh, strong exhausted, but resolved to stand by
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poses that men who study and are
impulses, have, in a moment of time, skirmishers creeping slowly forw ard she gave me a true woman’s death- supported by bis labor, shall be
felt themselves change to a mangled, through tangled brush, officers giv- less trust, hut I was mistaken.”
able to tell him where to find hap­
mutilated lump of clay, yet with a inK ejuick orders, men coming out
Not long after, Ellen Dale mar-
piness. Science should teach him
thinking mind, hoping, confiding,
the smoke for an instant, then ried Charles Linton, who did not go
how to live, how to act toward
loving, but—crippled for life!
disappearing to he seen no more; to th e a rm y ,b u tw h o g a v e a n e x a m -
friends and relatives, how to
Iu the latecivil war that startled orderlies covered with blood, rush- ining physician a hundred dollar
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Frank Hamilton, heeding not the deafening roar of heaving artillery constitutional debility to be used ,
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satistied. He insists on knowing
friends, enlisted as a private soldier remembered scene.
drafted into the service of his
to live. . . The essential
in the—th Pennsylvania Regiment.
I here was one Confederate bat- country, although he was in the
j thing is the total view of life, its
Twenty years of age, ardent, tery, heavily barricaded by felled best of bodily health,
meanings and aims. Science can
courageous,energetic, honest-heart trees, brush-wood, and stone-walls,
Poor Ellen Dale Linton! No one
. not rise to that view. Religion
ed, noble-minded, he carried his ( w*hich all day long bad been pour- should envy thee in thy luxurious
alone can do so.”
education, talents, strength, honor, *nfi upon the I nion forces a terrible home, for thy heart is beating sor-
The count realizes that the pres­
his proud manhood, his life, and storm of shot and shell, and doing rowfully to day, and thy only wish
laid all upon the altar of his coun- sad havoc among the brave boys.
is to lie down in the still earth, for, ent conditions of life are woefully
try,—a free-will offering there.
! The —th Pennsylvania regiment, when it is too late, thou hast real- unsatisfactory and unorganized.
Beloved at home by all who knew headed by tbeir gallant officers, ized that thou art crippled for life! The laborer knows not where to
him, his pleasing address and fine volunteered to demolish that form-
Winter snows and summer sun- find happiness or what to believe.
qualities w’on him also many friends idable battery, or perish in the at- shine fall upon the grave of Frank The religion that, without evi-
in the army. He spoke of all men tempt. So with knapsacks thrown Hamilton, and the scarred body is, dence or prop, but with rack, fagot,
as brothers, mein hers of the great aside, muskets gleaming in the sun, sometime since, at rest. The |
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human family; high or low7, rich or on they went upon the half-run, consciousness that he was a cripple has dominated the world, in the
poor, bond or free, elevated in now pausing one instant to take was not borne long, and very quietly name of God, for nearly 2000 years,
station or steeped in sin and de- breath, perchance to give one he closed his eyes and fell asleep, has failed, according to the count’s
pravity, no matter, they were his thought to “home, sweet home” and “ My work,” he whispered, “ was show ing, to secure happiness, or to
brothers,and whenever opportunity (its treasured associations ere they finished at Fredericksburg.”_[Su- teach what to believe. He claims
that science should take the hu­
offered, he rendered the service of faced those death-dealing guns,
san H. Wixon.
man family into her guiding, lov­
a brother. He carried with him to
“ Come now , boysl Onwardl”
ing, “everlasting arms”, hut says,
the A r m y o f th e P o to m a c the relig­
It was Frank H am ilton’s clear
A Good A nsw er.
at the same time, that she cannot
ion of humanity, and not by bitter voice that rang out upon the black, j
curses but by tender thoughtfulness smoke-thickened air,
touching
An English rector preached a “rise to that view; religion alone
for others, by example, precept, every heart within its sound like an severe sermon on the eternal fate of can do so”. He does not say which
without money and without price, electric shock.
the wicked, and afterwards sought of the religions, that have been
did he win the hearts of many of
A few minutes of flash and clash, to “improve” the lesson by personal struggling with the subject all
his companions in arms to turn grapeshot falling like hail, slashing, admonition* Meeting an old wo- through the ages, he means.
The count overlooks the fact that
from wrong and evil to the practice, cutting, crashing, and—hurrah! man who was noted for her gossip-
of the high and true virtues of hu- hurrah! and cheer after cheer rent ing disposition, he said to her, “ I science is only now emerging, vic­
inanity. It is no wonder, then, that the atmosphere, for that battery hope my sermon has borne fruit in torious, from her long, hitter, bloody
he should rise in less than one year was in the power of the Union your mind. You heard what I said warfare with theology; tie does not
from the position of coporal to col- troops.
about that place where there shall recognize that she is yet surround­
onel of his regiment.
But gallant Frank Hamilton was be wailing and gnashing of teeth?” ed by hosts of enemies armed with
Among his correspondents wasone down, — one arm gone, shot clear —“ Well as to th at,” answered the credulity, conservatism and inher­
whose letters were watched for,and away, a sabre-cut so deep that one dame, “ if I ’as anythink to say, itance and led by learned men who
welcomed with delight, whose every of those flashing black eyes must it be this—let them gnash their must crush her and keep her out of
the field or be forced themselves to
word was dwelt upon with peculiar sur« ly be lost, and two or three teeth a s ’a s ’em. I ain’t.”
retire from their positions of emol­
interest,—Ellen Dale! Beautiful as gaping bullet-wounds,
causing
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a poet’s dream of beauty, admired every nerve to quiver with pain
Common S en se
and sought after, she had given her and agony,proclaimed him crippled
When the “fatal weapons of pre­
W’oi d of promise to Frank Hamilton for life.
Two little girls were getting ready cision with which the advancing
that she would be his wife on his
( rippled for life! a most weak, to go to Sabbath school, and they forces of science are armed” have
return from the war. It w as the dependent cripple ! Oh, it was cruel were late. One said, “ Let us kneel cleared the way, when the truths of
remembrance of her smile that help- to think of that noble, manly form down and pray that we may not science are welcomed and honored
ed to (’beer him when far from the so mangled, wrecked, and crushed! be tardy.” “O no,” said the other, by all, not alone for the mastery
scenes of his childhood; yet some-
But is it not better to be crippled “that will not do; for if we take the they give over the outer world, but
limes, when thinking of her, an outwardly than to bear about a time, it will make us later than for the clear light they throw7 upon
undefined feeling would creep over mind dwarfed, a spirit shattered bv ever. I ’ll tell you what let’s do; questions of moral obligation, then
1 ini, and he would feel as though, ignorance and superstition? Could let’s run.”
science, with the energy of the uni­
fomehow, for him, light had gone we look upon the interior man, that
form laws of the universe at her
out of the world; but all honesty which is shaded and kept from the
heart, will be fully equal to teach­
L ively Times.
and confidence himse'.f, his heart eyes of the world,how many cripples
ing the laborer how to find happi­
would adm it of no doubt of one should we behold among those who
Mrs. Goth—“ I don’t see how you ness, and what to believe. Theolo­
loved so tenderly.
wear the outward form of perfect can endure a little place likeLawn. gy has its unproved theories, but
At. Fredericksburg? Who that manhood, and how many perfect Nothing to see, nothing to hear, science has its demonstrated and
participated in that terrible battle angels among those whose outward nothing to talk about.” Rural demonstrable truths.
can ever forget it? Men hurrying forms are distorted and maimed!
Guest.-“ Land sakes! Why, our own
“The total view of life, its mean-
now hero, now there, charging, fal-
Ellen Dale wept a few bitter tears church has changed ministers three ing ’and aims,” as taught bv the
ting hack, lire flashing up through when she heard of young Hamilton’s times within a year, and the other | religion the count refers to, is found
smoke and dust, shells bursting,, misfortunes.
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