T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , O REGON , TH U R SD A Y , SEI LEM PER 1, U98.
“ God Is L ove.”
BY JO H N A. W ILSON .
In order to com prehend the
^.endless love of the bible god, let
read some of his words:
isha prayed unto the Lord and
said, Smite ibis people, I pray thee,
with blindness.
And he sm ote
them with b lindness.—2 Ki. vi. 18.
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For thus saith the Lord of hosts,
Capt. C harles L. A lbertson,of the
the God of Israel, I have put a yoke l l t l i police precinct, is a well
upon the neck of all these nations. jcno«wn 8t U(j ent and collector of rare
—Jer. xxviii. 14.
hooks, says the New York Times. 1
As I live, saith the Lord God,
surely with a m ighty hand, and a
stretched out arm , and with fury
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poured out, will I rule over you.—
Ezek. xx. 33.
Thus saith the L ord, Behold 1
frame evil against you and devise a
i • against
„oirtut you.—Je
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T«r i. xvm
w iii . n 11 .
device
iherefore, thus saith the Lord
God, I will even rend it with a
stormy wind in my fury; and there
shall be an overflowing shower in
mine anger, and great hailstones in
my fury to consume it. Ezek. xiii.
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RATES.
His private office in the M ulberry
street station house contains a lot l ) e a | e r s jn Fruits V egetables
D ra k e
of interesting volumes, m any of
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which are of great in trin sic value,
and C o n fe c tio n e ry .
Silverton
while others are notable because of
un u su al features. In an old hook-
FORSTNER’S
8tore lhe o th er day the cap tain
came across a peculiar hook bound
in m etal, with w hat appeared to Ge
an e]ectrjCal appliance a t one end,
j,e im m ediately purchased,
vojum e proved to he a copy of
. . . IS INVALUABLE TO . . .
fhe p roteslan t Episcopal Book of
C a r p e n t e r s a n d J o i n e r s , 14 ’ m o rtis­
Common P rayer, tran slated into the ing, such as lcttinir in locks, as il takes the
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ja n gUage of the N orth American place of chisel an d gouge; to
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Indians in D akota, and published C a b in e t M a k e rs ,
tor b ila i‘1 w ork,
in 1883 by the New Y ork Bible and ! d w e llin g , patch in g , rem oving splits am i
& W ebb,
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C.-1 k n o ts.
In fact, no wagon or p a tte rn m ak er,
Common P rayer Book bociety lor m a n u fa ctu rer of pianos, organs, sew ing m achines, ag ricu ltu ral im p le m e n ts, sash ,
the Indian Commission of the b lin d s, fu rn itu re , nor ANY O T H E R W OOD W O R K E R , sh o u ld be w ith o u t it.
P ro testan t Episcopal C hurch, to use
AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED.
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in the m issionary jurisdiction o i :
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It <8 th e only ro n n d b it in th e world th a t
N iobrara.
will bore a
I will bring evil upon all flesh,
The covers of the book had been
saith the Lord. Je r. xlv. 5.
care - fully rcinforeed with substan-
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I will meet them as a hear th a t tial plates of nickeled brass, firmly
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an d do all th a t an y o th e r hit will do.
is bereaved of her whelps, and will fastened with five strong rivets on
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rend the caul of th eir hearts, and each side. At the top of each cov-
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there will I devour them like a er was an appliance for the in.er-
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lion.—Hos. xiii. 8.
tion of an electric wire.
And I will tread down the people
According to the story told Cap-1
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in mine anger, and m ake them
drunk in my fury.— Is.lxiii. 6.
. •, as they gather
,41 . silver, ano
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and 1 1 lead,
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it, so will I gath-
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er you in m ine anger and in my
fury, and 1 will leave you there,
and melt yon.— Ezek. xxii. 20.
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tain Albertson by the seller of the
book, the work was used in its pres-
ent
form by J a m issionary J to t h e ,
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In d ian s in connection with an elec-
trie battery.
W hile the
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brave,
whose
soul
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book with his h an d s on boih cov-
ers, th u s forming an electrical cir- •
cuit, th e latter would surreptitious-
¡y Lurn on a gentle cu rren t, which
sent gentle, hut appreciable th rills
through the fram e of the savage. I
These he believed to tie m am festa-
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tions of the new religion.
And it came to pass th a t at mid-
night the Lord sm ote all the first
born in the la rd of Egypt. . . .
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There was not a house where there
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was not one d e a d .—Ex. xn. 29-30.
I also will laugh a t your calam ­
Six Tracts to Promote
ity; I will mock when your fear
com eth.— Prov. i. 26.
And he [E lish a] turned back and
looked on them and cursed them in
the mime of the Lord, and there
In Place of C h ris tia n ity :
came forth two she-bears out of the 1 Can ins be Forgiven?
wood and tear forty and two c h il- 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil-
dren of them .— 2 K i. ii. 24.
ization?
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Is
Religion or Science More Reliable?
I form the light and create dark
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. . 4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions,
ness;
Be¡¡ef
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Miracleg wu«»
Beneflt?
sss; I m ake peace and create evil;
evil g Doeg ¿,C
UCi lu
I th e Lord do all these things.
g Immortality or Annihilation?
Is. xlv. 7.
JU ST T H 3 T H IN G
The Lord h ath m ade all things to hand to your Christian friends. Send
2 cents for Li 6. or 6 cents for 25 tracts,
for him self; yea, even the wicked
to E liza M owry B liven , Brook­
lyn, C onn., or send 10 cents
for the day of evil.—Prov. xvi 4.
Scientific
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for 50, e ith e r kind or as­
sorte«! kinds, to
the liberal university
Secularists, would you not like to
have some letter heads p rinted with siberio«
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ed carefully for good; h u t evil cam e
down from the L ord.— Micah i. 12.
This evil is of the L o r d .- 2 Ki.
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vi. 33.
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