THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1898.
insanity. W hat is it?
Allow me
to give my ideas of what it is.
Im agination is one of the noblest
attrib u tes of m an, and builds c a t
tles in th e air.
So long as its
practical im possibility is confessed,
it is well and useful. W hen one’s
mind dwells upon its im agination,
to th at m ind it becomes an existing
fact, which results in w hat is
termed belief.
W henever the per
son or m ind acts upon th a t belief,
then he is insane. T h at is insanity,
hut not noticed as such, because it
exists in a m ild form and is common
to all believing in orthodox creeds
and dogmas.
U n fo rtu n ately for h u m an ity , in
sanity is recognized only in ratio to
personal inconvenience and injury
received from the insane. Many a
person joins the crowd of the in
sane in hopes of gain, which usually
results in his own in san ity , hut the
poor fool don’t know it.
A ddison R. T itus .
when we can lay aside the present
| “ golden ru le’’. Even as ye would
th a t others should do unto you, do
ye likewise unto all m an k in d ”,
w hich is an em bodim ent of selfish
ness, and replace it with the true
golden rule, “ Do all for others” .—
[W . H. Bach.
W hom the Church Loves.
We hear much silly tw addle in
the ranks of the church about God
prospering the C hristian business
m an. The church offers an induce
m ent to the man of money to enter
the church; put its 'cloak on, and
it will help you steal from your
neighbor with less stinging of the
conscience. If some of the modern
C hristian theories were true, the
poor and oppressed are the devils
of the world w ho are receivirg due
retrib u tio n , while the m illionaire
is receiving the blessings of the
A lm ighty.— [Ex.
it, hut because, like witchcraft or
astrology, it has ceased to interst
them.
The great ship of your church,
once so stout and fair, and well-
laden with good destinies, is become
a skeleton ship; it is a phantom
hulk, with warped planks and -ere
canvas, and you who work it are no
more than the ghosts of dead men,
and at the hour when you seem to
have reached the bay, down your
ship will sink like lead or like stone,
to the deepest bottom .—Jo h n Mor
ley, M. P.
How “ God” Helped the Barber.
As I was w alking in Madison
Square one day. I heard a fam iliar
voice exclaim ing, “ Buy some nuts,
sir; ten for a cent.” I looked up
and recognized an old barber.
“ W hat! are you selling nuts?”
said I.
“ Ah, sir, I have been unfortu
nate.”
“ But this is no business for a
m an likejyou.”
“ Oh, sir, if you could only tell
me of som ething better to do,” re
turned the barber, with a sigh.
I was touched. I reflected a mo-
m ent; then tearing a leaf from my
m em orandum hook, wrote for a few
moments and handed it to the m an,
saying: “ Take this to a printing
office and have half a hundred cop
ies s'ruck off’.
H ere is a dollar to
pay for it. Sell then; at ten cents
a copy, and you will have bread on
the spot. The strangers who visit
New York cannot refuse this trih-
m e ,o the nam e of God, p r in t'd in
so m any different ways.”
The barber did as lie was hid,
and is now alw ays seen at the en
trance of one of the big buildings
selling the following handbill
o
name of God brought you good
luck?”
“ Yes, indeed, sir.
I sell on an
average a hundred copies a day, at
two cents each, or two dollars; but
th e strangers are generous; some
give me ten cents and others tw en
ty. I have even received h a lf a
dollar for a copy; so th a t all told I
am m ak in g five dollars a d ay .”
“ Five dollars a d ay ?”
“ Yes, sir; th an k s to your k in d
ness.”
“ The deuce!” thought I, as I
walked aw ay; “ if I were not a lit
erary man I would tu rn peddler.”
— [F ra n k Fulton.
In flem oriam .
Died, at her home near Dayville,
Oregon, S unday, Sept. 11, 1898,
F rankie, beloved daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. P. Snyder. She was
horn March 17, 1879, and had
spent her whole life on the farm
where she died.
Deceased was a member (>f the
The True Golden Rule.
To the Preachers.
Oregon State Secular Union and
was a firm believer in Secularism .
You have so debilitated the
The world has been blind to the
We laid her to rest in the Dayville
inconsistencies of the Bible. The m inds of men and women by your
burying ground, W illiam W yllie
reason has been th a t people h a v e 1 prom ises and your dream s th a t
reading the Secular burial service,
not dared to study it. P riestcraft m any a generation m ust come and
while m any of her friends joined in
has stood by hurlin g an ath em as go before E urope • can throw oft’ the
singing.
H er funeral was very
against any one who used the same yoke of your superstition. But we
largely attended.
reason regarding it th a t they would promise you they shall he genera
F ran k ie’s life was one continual
in the ease of any other book; when tions of streuous battle. We give
round of kindness and love, not
people read th a t Jehoram was the you all the advantages you can get
only to her parents and sisters, h u t
father of several boys two years be from the sincerity and pious worth
to all who knew her. Dayville has
fore be was born, thev took it as a of the good and sim ple am ong you
lost one of the fairest flowers th a t
We give all that the bad am ong
m atter of course.
ever bloomed.
H er character was
To-day the Bible is being studied. you may get by resort to the pois
beyond reproach. She was beloved
The u ltim ate salvation of my fam ily oned weapons of your profession
and will he deeply m ourned by all
is as much to me as the salvation of and your trad itio n s — its bribes Io
who* knew her. “ Amiable, she won
any m a n ’s fam ily can be to him. m ental indolence, its hypocritical
all; intelligent, she charm ed a ll;
I wanted to know. Therefore I affectations in the pulpit, its ty ra n
anti dead, she saddened all.”
“ searched the scrip tu res” in tern ally ny in the closet, its false specious
Their m any friends unite in sym
and ex tern ally . Not from infidel ness in the world; its menace at the
p athy for the heart-broken father,
writings but from C hristian. I found deathbed. W ith all these you may
mothei and sisters, in whose home
th a t the concordance called a tte n do your worst, and still hum anity
THE NAME OK GOD IN FORTY-EIGHT
one chair will ever he vacant and
tion to passages th at were favorable will escape you; still the conscience
LANGUAGES.
one bright, sm iling face will ever
to the church. The opposite were of the race will rise away from you;
Hebrew, Elo ’•irn <»r E lo a h ; C hai-1.
i o -
be m is se d .
not listed. The C om m entators ex still the growth of a brighter ideal daic, Elah; ’ Assyrian, r->n
Ellah; Syriac
plained all about the things th a t and a nobler purpose wdll go on, and T urkish, A lah; M alay, Alla;
She was hut aw a smile
Which glistens in a tear,
were favorable to C hristian doc- leaving further and further behind Language of Magi, Orsi; Old E gyp
Seen but a little w hile,
trines; hut o ther passages werp them your dwarfed finality and tia n , Tent; A rm orian, T e u ti; Mod
B ut oh, how loved, how d ear!
ignored or passed off with some re- leaden, moveless stereotype.
We 1 ern E gyptian, Tenn; Greek, Theos;
One of her true friends,
m ark th a t neither explained r.or shall pass you by on your flank; C retan, Thins; yEolian and Doric,
E d ith W y l l ie .
your fiercest d a rts will only spend Ilos; L atin, Deus; Low Latin,Diex;
m eant an y th in g .
D a y v ille , O re., S ept 26.
I believe in religion. Not a re them selves on air. W e will not a t Celtic and Old Gallic, Diu; F rench,
ligion th at m akes me believe in in tack you as V oltaire did; we will Dieu. Spanish, Dios; Old G erm an,
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hum anities and absurdities, and not exterm inate you; we shall ex Diet; Provencal, Dion; Low Breton,
H isto ry will p la c e 1 Doue; Ita lia n , Dio; Irish, Die; 01a-
pictures the creator of the universe plain you.
The W eekly Oregonian is the
as a m onster degraded below hu- your dogm a in its class, above or la tongue, Deu; G erm an and Swiss, best newspaper published in the
inanity of today, hut in a religion below a hundred com peting dog Flem ish, Goed; Dutch G odt; E ng Pacific Northw est. The subscrip
of love. The advent of that relig- m as, exactly as the n a tu ra list c h s - 1
lish and Old Saxon, God; Teuton- tion price is 81.50 per year. We
ion has been delayed and nearly sifies his species.
From being a ic, G«»th; D anish and Sw edish,G ut; will give it, together with the Torch
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Y ou will get tw o
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stultified the brains of a large pro- to a chapter in a book. As history As; P an n o n ian , Isu; Zem blian,Fet- price of one.
portion of h u m an ity , acted as a bar explains your dogm a, so science zo; H indostanee, R ain ;’ Corom an-
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A few d ay s after giving the bar- Song B(>ok N<> j
This wH| onIy
cise of reason.
All under the holy sym bols of their nourishm ent, and
cost you a few m inutes’ work and a
nam e of religion.
men will tu rn their hacks on your her this idea, I met him.
“ W ell,” said I, “ has the holy (2 cent stam p.
Let us hope and work for a day j system , not because th e y c o n fu te d