T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON , TH U R SD A Y , OCTOBER 20, 1S98.
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characters, were wrested from their
m» aning and used as initials f< r Je ­
That scholar who makes himself sus H oininum Salvator, rendered in
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thorough' fam iliar with the religion
Jesus the Savior of Mei
,f ancient Rome, antedating the al- \y as
ntd designed to m islead? It
¡eged birth of Jesus hundreds of certainly does to those who are ig­ M a in S t r e e t
S ilv e r to n , O re
years, is always shocked as he runs norant o f the Greek characters, or
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, m t which is pretendedly new, ises.
known as C hristianity. It is not a
There is scarcely a festival or a
m atter of faith alone, but it extends bojv ,jay on the Catholic calendar
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to every departm ent of church lit­ which had not its counterpart in
S u p p lie s ,
erature and practice, from the chief j^uman mythology, And the sac­
M E A T S SO LD A T R E A S O N A B L E
priest— Pontifex M axim us — down ram ents of baptism and of the
B o o k s and
RATES.
to the lowest subordinate priest and L ord’ s supper were in vogue among
S ta tio n e r y .
hum blest laym an. We trace the the Pagans of Rome, just as they
history of th a t
pontif back are celebrated am ong Catholics
seven hundred years before our era, now. Cicero, horn 106 years, ac­ D ealers in F ru its, V egetables
D ra k e &. W e b b ,
and his sacerdotal powers merged cording to accepted chronology,
and C onfectionery.
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with the m onarch, were identical before Jesus, made m irth of people
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with th a t of the later Catholic eating their god, as skeptics do now
popes clothed with civil authority. of the eating of the body and d rin k ­
FORSTNRE'S
Their ideas of heaven and hell were ing the blood of the dear Savior. To
uhstantially the same as are now ^ u<,je Cicero accurately, he iuquir-
r t l m i l o Y l pulpits.
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taught in
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man
urn was the father of the gods, as as to im agine what he eats to be a
was Elohim in the Hebrew system ,
May not the same question
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while Ju p iter, parallel with Jeho be asked with propriety today?
C a r p e n te r s an d J o in e rs , formortis-
vah, became the active reigning
Prayers were directed to the gods
monarch o f heaven.
Pluto presid­ and hvm ns were sung in their in«» 8Uch as lettin« in locks’ as h takes the
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place of chisel and gouge; to
ed over hades, as does Satan in praise with as much , fervor
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C a b in e t M a k e r s , for inlaid w ork,
C hristian m ythology. The m illions 1.. ars ago as now
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r i dow elling, p atch in g , rem oving sp lits and
of lesser gods are known as saints
As said in th ere colum ns aw hile knotg
fact, n o „.agonorpatternm aker,
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in the modern system.
ago, ev ery rite , chrem ony, festival, rnanufacturer of pianos. organs, sewing machines, agricultural implements, sash,
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nor ANY OTHER WOOD WORKER, should he w ithout it.
Jes or Yes was one of about for­ and holiday
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ty different names which Bacchus preserved and is still in force among
AS A MACHINE BIT IT IS UNEQUALED.
— Dionysius of the Greeks— bore. Roman Catholics. Their gods have ¡
It is tn e only ro u n d b it in th e world th a t
He was the sot: of Ju p iter by a been slightly changed, several of
will bore a
m ortal woman. He was personified them , as E sculapius, the physician,
as a glorious and sublime being, who raised the dead to life; Bac­
who, un d er the form of an eternal­ chus, the god of wine; and Prom e­
and do all th a t any o th e r b it will do.
ly flourishing youth, subdued all tí) us, who came down from heaven,
PR IC E S .
enemies and traveled from east to was clothed with flesh, gifted with
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west through all countries. He prophecy, suffered for the salvation
tau g h t the culture of the vine, and of m en—-all were merged into the
thus, by a sort of miracle, turned common character Jesus; while Isis
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water into wine. It was the image and her son, with her home in
S il v e r t o n , O e r q o n .
of Jes, otherwise Bacchus, which Egypt, and temples to her honor in
was removed from Pont us, on the Rome before the C hristian era, and
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Black See, near 300 years before known as the queen of heaven, was
our era, to A lexandria, Egypt, converted into the M adonna, the
where a huge temple, one of the m other ot our Lord.
seven wonders of the world, was
T he ritual used in Catholic wor­
erected for his reception and was ship is retained in its present Latin
dedicated to his worship; and there tongue, its very language, when
he was posed as the resurrected god, carefully criticised, betraying the
Osiris.
He was anointed, ch rist­ fact th a t it is a survival of Pagan­
ened, made a christ, after the m an­ ism.
The P ro testan t reformers,
ner of ancient kings.
Tem ples ignorant of the real beginning of
were also erected and dedicated to C hristianity, attem pted to remodel I
his worship a t M emphis an d Cono­ the worship, but its barbarian ori- P~
pus. In the year 140 the worship gin crops out in all their exercises. U*
of this god,Serapis— the resurrected
Every symbol and emblem of the 1
Osiris— was introduced into Rome
church, as the cross, the m iter, the
by A ntonius Pius.
H is m ysteries
crozier, th e fish, the lam b, the dove,
were celebrated on the <»th of May,
were in use by Pagans long centu­
agreeing with Ascension Day. The
ries before the C hristian era.
nam e Jes, spelled in Greek charac-
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th e n it was used as a sign of vic-
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b o rn e a t th e head of a rm ie s, and
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Woodworkere, don-, forge, to send an
kind as to inform us why the Greek order for a pet of tbe Foratner Auger
letters IH S, spelling Jes in English Bits. Price, |2.60 by mail. See ad.
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