THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEP'l EMBER 1, 1898.
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uge which T erah, th e father of precision with which the advanc-
Abrahara, escaped in some unex- ing forces of science are arm ed .”
plained wav, Gen. xi. 2«, Josh.
‘‘It is idle to set hounds to the
xxix. 2, and such passages as are purifying and organizing work of
found in Ex. xxxii. 11, 23, N um .x. science. I he hope of science is the
11-31, xxxi. 17-18, Deut. xiv. 21, hope of the world.”
xxiii. 13, 19, Gen. xx. 18, 1 K ings
“ London, Dec. 22.—During the
xxii. 23-26, Ezek. xiv. 9, Je r. vii. ceremony today of the consecration
22, viii, 1-2, etc., etc.
, of the Rt. Rev. Frederick T em p le, |
Num. xiv. 11: “ And the Lord D. i/:, as archbishop of C anterbury,
-aid unto Moses, How long will at Bow church, the Rev. Mr.
these people provoke me, and how Brownjohn, chaplain of the late
long will it be ere they believe me, hishop of Lath, rose and protested
for all the signs I have showed against the consecration on the
-df • c*
among th em ?” The bishops have ground that Dr. Temple was a self-
more faith th an “ these people” ,who confessed believer in the full doc-
wouid not believe “ for all the trine of evolution.”
signs?
' Does it not take sophistry
The bishops m ust believe in de- am ounting to crime to be a believ-
vils, because the son of M ary and er in evolution and special creation
God, or the Holy G host, or, as Fa- at one and the same time?
ther, Son and Holy Ghost, “ these
three are one God,” he may have
Sleep and Death.
Pupils a r e (liven Every O p p o rtu n ity to Learn W ithout
been his own father, said after his
About one-tbird of hum an life is
-opposed resurrection, “ Go ye into
B eing H am pered b y S uperstitions and Dogmas.
spent
in
sleep,
yet
no
one
regrets
all the world and preach the gos
Yea, m any are sorry
pel to every creature . . . and this fact.
these signs shall follow them th a t they cannot sleep more hours than
believe. In my nam e they shall cast they do.
Babes sleep more than
out devils; . . . if they drink older people, but no one wishes they
any deadly thing it shall not h u rt wonhl sleep less. H ibernating an-
tj " » ‘
"
im als spend m any m onths snugly
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x ,
hid and sweetly sleeping, but no
Being om nicient, he m ust have one supposes for a m om ent th a t
known th a t it would take m any they are more miserable or less
thousand more years th an 1897 to blessed than anim als that hunt for
¡»reach th a t gospel to “ all t h e , l°°d all winter.
world” , so there can he no tim e .
ca^ e^,
brother of
.
i death, nut no other two brothers
lim itation to the prom ise.
were ever regarded with such op-
I)o the bishops of the L. C. be- posite feelings.
Everybody loves
lieve in devils, and have they “ rev- sleep; nobody loves death. Sleep
erence” and “ fa ith ” sufficient to 1 is invited by soft pillows and sooth-
A Splendid Corps of Teachers and Good Facilities for
drink a “ deadly th in g ”, tru stin g to ¡»S P''«1" ” «;
“ fought with
, m edical and surgical skill. Sleep
'Peaching.
For inform ation, address
this promise of the central object of is sw eet, m sp ite of som e h o rrid
their faith, “ the Lord Jesus C hrist dream s; death is feared, though in
him self”, th a t the n a tu ra l law of it no dream s are known to come.
How soft and sweet is the lu lla
poison shall be reversed?
by the m other sings to soothe her
J. E. HOSMER, Ph.D ., B.S.D , President,
T h at which requires the most babe to H.leep in its cradle. How
profound and blind faith is to bitter the funeral service th a t is
SILVERTON.
OREGON.
believe th a t a “ body of flesh and held when a child is consigned to
hones and everything appertain- its grave. \\ hen a m other rocks
ing to the perfection of m an ’s na- ^ er babe to sleep there are no tears;
.
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, ,
“ the Lord ° giveth .. his , beloved
ture
(th e 4th
of i .i
the 39 a rtic le s of « when
,
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sleep” there are no smiles. In sleep
the Episcopal church), violated the the b()dy ig repaired; in death the
sublime and uniform law of grav- body is destroyed.
In this respect
-DEALERS IN-
ity, m ounted through the atm os- sleep differs from death as peace
phere, passed the clouds out into differs from wai, and people love
e x , - ’
the boundless d i epths of c space, 4 to sleep th at is short and
. , has . been
.
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perienced and found refreshing,and I
sit on a throne. A fter the suppos- fear deatb tb a t
jong and fionj
ed resurrection the eleven disciples which none come to tell of its na-
went away into G alilee, tyito a ture.
And our dum b friends, the
m ountain, where Jesus had ap- hiwer anim als, like ouiselves, also
,
u. , ,
.,
court sleep but dread death. Often
pointed them .
“ And when they " the fear
f
.. prevents
.
i both man
.
of J death
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saw him they worshipped him , hut and beagt frorn sleeping,
some doubted.” P erhaps some of
Distinct is not infallible, yet it Corner Main and W ater Streets,
SIL V E R T O N , O R E.
the bishops of the Lam beth Con- often guides correctly, and we weep
ference doubted, which was the instinctively at the death of those
r i . ..
.
. i - i i
i we love. If death is not an eternal
cause of th e “ sessions b eh in d closed sleep
,
, should
l
i „ we
, .........
.. »t
why
mourn o tor
the
dear ones in the grave? If, i s re-:
How to Make .
“ W hile every right m inded m an ligion teaches, we are to he separat-
inust sym pathize with those theo- ed from them only a short w h ile,,
logians who have not been able a l ami are then to hej reunited in a
better world, we should not sigh,
* The Government nationalized the Postal System, why not also
together to close their ears to the but rejoice at every grave. Though
the Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD
-till, sm all voice of reason, to es religion says rejoie , nature rays
in his Ixxik entitle«!..............................
ea ¡»e from the fetters which eccles- weep, and even the most religious
iasticisin has L rg ed , the nielan- obey nature and cry as bitterly
cholly fact rem ains, that the posi •when death comes as those who
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,
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have no hope of any future life,
tion they have taken up is hopeless-
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