THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON. OREGON, THURSDAY, OC TOLER 2<’, 1>‘JS.
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C h ristia n s Do You B elieve T hese that it is an infinite e v i l com m itted ing anything known th r-e centuries l*»ving(?) God. I say the thing wa«<
dam nable if there was a G”d; he
D ogm as?
by a finite being.
ago.
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12. The dogma respecting the
There is a reason for this. Sor- knew h is (? )S o n was safe away an I
1. Thedogm a th at the world was gOvernment of God,; het he punishes c* rv is science s«en upside down. why, when ruler of everything, did
created in six days, and in the germ gjnners jn an eternal hell, not for There is a confused groundw ork of he perm it m urder to enter the m ind
of hum anity the C reator failed and
good, but to gratify his own tru th , a fallacious method of view- of Herod? The slaughter of infan ts
was disappointed in his work. Gen. | ove
praise i nd glory.
ing facts, a t the basis of these pseu- atnouted to nothing except the d am ­
vi. 6.
13. The dogma respecting a new do-sciences. Yet the tru th and the nable and useless slaughter.
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V
•) 'Pho dncrtna th at God
8 nffry
L ange of
Je su s C h rist is th e n h e a rd from
with hum an ity , jealous, and vindic­ views which a sinner has been in- success of the deceptions. They at
Jerusalem
questioning th •
tive, visiting the iniquities of the duced to en tertain of him self is a dazzle and daze m inds not trained scribes and doctors. Eighteen years
fathers upon th eir children, from “change of h ea rt,” and he is th u s in sound reasoning; and how few’ then elapse, when he appears at the
the first m an Adam down to the “ born ag ain .” Such a “conversion” they are! The societies for “ psy- river Jo rd an and is baptised by a
last hum an being th a t herafter may in stan tly renders a liar tru th fu l,a chical research” and theosophic crack -b rain ed old fool— Jo h n th ”
dishonest m an honest, and a bad speculation begin with an acknowl- B aptist. One w riter— M ark— states
be born!
3. The dogma th a t God caused man as good as the best.
edgem ent of the possible tru th of he “ went into the wilderness fa st­
Jesus to he born of a woman w ith­
14. The dogma in respect to ghost-seeing and of com m union ing forty days and n ig h ts”, and in
out a hum an father, and caused faith ,“ saving faith ,” that faith th a t with the divine.
This possible the sam e verse (M ark iv. 14) “ the
him to suffer an infam ous death on creates “ the evidence of things u n ­ ground is seized by the ch a rla ta n angels m inistered unto him .”
a cross, in order thus to counteract seen.” This dogm a forbids faith in as proved basis for his illusory ed-
W hat m in istratio n s did God re­
the dire consequences of his ow n hu m an itv , faith in the unvarying ifice.
quire, for C hrist was God? P ro b ­
failure in m an ’s “ creation.”
laws of m atter and of m ind.
; S uperstitions are a t core the ably the w riter of those words fo r­
4. The dogma th a t Jesus, thus
15. The dogm a respecting prayer, sam e everywhere and at all times, got himself.
Proceeding to C h rist’s baptism ,
born, is a m edium between God, based upon the false idea th a t as­ because they are based on those «le­
who has been offended by his own piration is not a spontaneity in the sires ar.d that ignorance which are eigteen years had elapsed since wo
work, and the hum an race lost hum an m ind, as really filial love is; an«! ever w’ill be a p a rt of m a n ’s n a­ have an y record of this im m acu­
eternally by this failure.
and by praying in faith In fin ite ture. He isdim ly aw are of m ighty late conception (?). W hat had he
5. The dogm a th a t Jesus, by Wisdom will remove a m ountain unm easured forces in ceasless a c tiv ­ been doing?
N othing th a t we
his death upon the cross, m ade him ­ into the sea.
ity around him , controlling his own know of. I believe had he been
self an atonem ent, a full and perfect
16. T h at dogm a th a t drilling the destiny. The om inous and om ni­ the Son of God he would have been
satisfaction to the dem ands of in fi­ m inds of people w ith these dogmas present portent of death meets him atten d in g to the saving of souls;
nite Ju stice for the sins of the whole will change the elem ents of hum an a t every tu rn . Dissatisfaction with still it is possible he was “counting
character for the better, and w ith -! his present condition, intense long- hairs,” but according to God’s ra-
world of m ankind.
6. The dogma th a t only those of out a persistent tru s t in their tru th - ing for a life and jov which it can pidity in th is business, Jesus could
the hum an race who exercise “ sav­ fulness, the race is accursed of God J never offer, goad him to seek a have cleaned up the job in less
ing fa ith ” in th is atonem ent a t the and doomed to an unending belli knowledge which weights and th an eighteen years.
m om ent when they die are benefit­ — [S underland.
m easures are im potent to accord
After his swim in the Jo rd an , he
-------------------- him. Yet such restricted knowl-
ed by it. All others,w hen they die,
went about preaching in parables,
“go away into everlasting p unish­
T he R evival of S u p e rstitio n .
edge is all th a t science can supply. knowing th a t the m ultitudes (?)
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! Therefore he tu rn s, in despair, to (perhaps forty or fifty persons)were
m ent.”
Does any one believe th at popu- the m ystics and the adepts, the present. This is allowing more,
7. The dogma th a t Moses, the
prophets, an d the apostles were lar superstitions have passed out of Cagliostros and the H um es, who by a large m ajority, than follow
divinely “ inspired” m edium s be­ existance, and have become ques-j stand ready to beckon him into in the wake of vagrants) were at
tween God and “ the rest of m an ­ tions for the a n tiq u a ry only? their illusory tem ples of folly.— loss to interpret the m eaning.
kind,” appointed by God to m ake N ever was there a greater error. [Dr. B rinton , in the C entury Mag- S till, he claim s he is the m o u th ­
piece of God. W ere he here today
known his will; so th a t w hat p u r­ Time was when the astrologer, the azine.
I should a t once deny his claim .
ports to be th eir writings or u tte r­ diviner, the sorcerer, had to prac­
W as Jesu s Christ D ivine?
After w altzing about for three
ances is tru ly “ the word of God.” tice his m ysterious arts in secret.
years, he went to the “ feast of the
8. The dogm a th a t the successors The law of the S tate menaced him
The
New
T
estam
ent
asserts
th
a
t
passover” and. later, to he crucified.
of apostles w hether popes, bishops, with its severest punishm ents.
Jesus
Christ
was
born
of
a
virgin,
It was not necessary for him to «lie
priests,elders,preachers,or m inisters The church fulm inated against him
M
ary
by
nam
e,
the
niece
of
Joseph.
a t th a t time. He was in the prim e
of the gospel, when tru ly so called, and his clients its direst a n a th e ­
L
et
us
us
ponder
on
this
point,
nev-
of life— could have visited Rome,
are divinely appointed m edium s be­ mas. He could show him self only
A lexandria, and other
tween God and the “ rest of m an ­ at country fairs, am ong ignorant er forgetting to let “ the flame of Alh
reason b u rn ” . An im m aculate con- cities, where the Son of G od’s words
k in d ,’’and th eir function is to de­ boors, him self broken by ’ th e rack
HKa ’nRt
laws of na- would have fallen on ptoductivo
clare the will of God, and to th re a ­ and th e strappado, lugging on his eePt,on
ten all who will not exercise faith back the m achinery of his harm less tu re » and God is n atu re (C hristians soil; hut Jesus w anted to become a
ar)(j thought the proper
in th eir declarations with G od’s but suspicious deceptions. Were adm it th is ), I herefor«, Jesus C hrist
he consulted by the wise and rich, was m anufactured precisely as are p ,ftCe Wftg Jerusalem .
w rath in hell forever.
M ary, finding
The last night he passed on earth
9. The dogm a th a t th ere is an as he frequentl’v was, it m ust be “ H hum an lieings.
with closed doors and under studi- phe was to become a m other — and be was cow ardly, and did exactly
invisible, m alig n an t, lying Devil,
according to the law of Moses she w hat Cl ristiai s say an agnostic
with an innum erable host of evil ed secrecy.
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had violated thejseventh com m and will do— be “ w eakened.” H is own
angels, prowling about near to every
How’ different it is now! r rum
,
,
,
,
,
.
,
. ,
and must be stoned to d e a tb — seeks words leave no doubt of the fact:
living soul, seeking whom they can some strange reason there has been
the aid of her Uncle Joe. He, a “ My G«»d, My Godl W hv hast thou
entice into sin and everlasting to r­ a wonderful revival w ithin the last
widower, and of course having some f(>rgaken rae?„
m ents in hell ¡moreover, th a t, in this decade of nearly every medieval
affection for the neice, m akes her
.
,.
.. in
. k , in
. g and , ask-
.
A . . fter
reading,
th
infernal work, these devils have superstition, under various guises,
his wife
the son of Go is horn.
j egug wag ¿¡vine, the answ er
been wofully successful, as they will in the most enlightened centres of
W h a t there tran sp ired m ade the
b<; a|) em pbatic negative. _
be to the end of time, and thus by the world. The p ractitioners of
w riter first an Infidel, and later a [ w R Sll0w,
F reetbougln Mag.
far the biggest proportion of the this m odern socery, instead of con­
azine.
hum an race enter the “ broad w ay” cealing, advertise th eir claim s, and m aterialist.
Joseph, his wife Mamie, with her
to etern al death.
urge them on the com m unity un­
10. The dogm a as to the absolute der poseudo-scientific nam es and child (an illegitim ate one), were
Rem em ber, if you send us the
obliged
to
evacuate
B
ethlehem
and
a u th o rity of th e m edium istic w rit­ jargons.
P alm istry ,
astrology,
nam es and addresses of 25 «»f
go
into
the
land
of
Judea
because
y()ur
Liberal friends and acquaint*
ings in the Bible. Those refusing sym pathetic magic, the doctrine of
ances, we will m ake you a present
to yield to th a t au th o rity are forever signatures, m erotherapeutics, and God said so.
Then followed th e useless siaugh- of a copy of the Torch of Reason
dam ned, “cast out into u tte r dark- all the farrago of fifteenth-century
ness,where there is weeping,wailing, th au m ato rg y flourish to-day in ter of infants; poor, innocent babes yong Book No. 1. T his will only
and gnashing of teeth.”
Boston and New Y ork, in Paris were torn from the breast aDd cost you a few m inutes’ work and a
11. The dogm a in respect to s in ,la n d Chicago, to a degree surpass- s la u g h te re d to appease a ju s t and j2 cent stam p.