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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1898)
6 T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON, N OV EM BER, 24, 1898. assumption, but only says: “ Point imal forms, we m ust begin at its • to me a single fact.” dawn in tbe lowest living beings, Mr. Johnson alm ost finds the real and observe its affinities. The low- flaw in Mr. Tenney’s article when eat form ot life is a simple mass of he says, “ To say th at everything is jelly floating in the waves of the God, is to say that you do not know sea, devoid of all organs whatever, what God is,” etc. After account- devoid alm ost of structure, being ing for the phenom ena of nature little more than a mass of crystal- without a supreme power, Mr. Ten- line cells. It is closely, very close- To sell property ney s conclusion regarding the ly allied to the m ineral, and is so To buy supreme power is entirely super- simple in its structure as seemingly •/ a hom e • fluous. To say th a t all power to be propagated w ithout parent- To go into business constitutes the suprem e power, is to age, sim ply by spontaneous devel- To exchange real or personal property negate the idea of a suprem e power, opm ent. because th a t idea presupposes the Such is the first specialization of To work, or to hire w orkers existence of subordinate powers. universal life above the crystal. A N Y TH IN G J. II. M orris .T here is no im passable chasm to be passed by one leap, but the Root, Hog, or D ie. sm oothest transition, and w ithout W R IT E T O U S . W E C A N H E L P YOU scarcely any change in the govern E idtor P orch ok R eason : ing laws. The principles of crys The Cam pbellites of Silverton a p tallization still rem ain, and the pear to be quite a shrewd lot. If, Address, IN FORM A TION B U R E A U cellular mass is but a higher order under the plea of “ rooting out th a t W ater S t k k et , of crystallization.—[A rcana of N a awful curse” which is in Silverton, Silverton, Oregon. O p p o site Liberal Hall. ture. they can bleed th eir outside sister churches and their members for the Did We Have to Have Help? upbuilding of their own interests in Silverton, they will do a good How religion makes hum bugs of stroke of financiering for them men! W hen the A m erican fleet D E A L E R S IN- selves at others’ expense S harp knocked the Spanish fleet to pieces dodge, that. ofF Santiago, and hundreds of Span I have read of a lot of C hristian iards were shot to death or roasted religionists, who, in “ ye olden alive in their ships, a Yankee man tim e,” denounced one F aust, as an of God traced the A lm ighty’s hand em issary of the devil, with a big D, in w hat he was pleased to call a and tried to “ root out an awful “ bloodless victory.” Now we have blight” of th at day, known as the President M cKinley himself, uho a rt of printing. But th a t especial is, we believe, a M ethodist, talking blight to C hristian tomfoolery ap- in a sim ilar fashion. “The faith SILVERTON, ORE pears to be living yet and don’t ap-1 of a C hristian nation,” he said at Corner Main and W ater Streets, ¡ N F O R M A T IO N BUREA u DO YOU WANT C u s ite r & D a v e n p o r t General M erchandise pear to be rooted out any to speak of. And these Siverton Campbellites will prove no exception. They m ay b liste r up their own local so- ciety some and weaken others, and furnish some am usem ent for sinful souls outside the “ ark of safety, but Secularism in Silverton will be alive and flourishing when the root- ing <>f these doughty ( am pbellites has faded into a dim tradition of half forgotten memorh s. F. S. M. T urner , N ov . 19, 298. The Natural Origin of Life. [C oncluded from 1st page.] satisfactorily answered. There is the universal life of creation visible in tbe heaving bosom of the ebbing sea, the flow of tbe m ajestic river, the activity of the silei t fortes which support on their Atlas shoul- ■ ders this g lo b e of ours; th a t scinti- lates in the stars as it rolls them on their vast revolutions; th at pul sates in the waves of light and heat and sends the vibrating magnetic current on its swift pathw ay. An all-pervading life is seen in the wild storm, with its brow begirt with red lightnings, and its hoarse voice of thunder; in all the cease- less changes of the inorganic world, If this universal life is concentrated and unitized, a living organism is ttie result. If we rightly study the origin of life in its vegetable or an- . f Cedar Rapids, “ recognizes the hand of A lm ighty God in the ordeal we have passed through. The divine favor seemed m anifest every where.” President M cKinley forgets th at Spain is a C hristian nation, too, and far more so than the U nited States, whose constitution does not recognize any religious establish- m ent. He afso forgets th a t it was a com paratively easy job to lick t fie S paniards, and it would have ♦ v How to Make Good T im es for all T im e The Government nationalized the Postal System, why not alst the Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARI in his book e n title d .............................. U N C LE S A M ’S H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E ----- Postpaid for 25 Cents. taken a great deal more of the T. , , , , . All profits on this book will be given to the Liberal University It should be in tbe hands of every thinking person. Address all orders to hand of A lm ighty God to enable The TORCH OF REASON, Silverton, Oregon. America to lick a first class naval power. Is it not really a very poor com W h o D o e s Y o u r plim ent to the United States, with its seventy m illions of people and Fill it up, and forward with its vast resources, th a t it wasn’t $1.00 to the quite sure of licking poor Spain w ithout supernatural assistance?! L ib e r a l U n iv e rs ity C o ., Silverton, Oregon. W hen . it is - put in th a t way, -• every C ut T h is O ut P rinting ? rega r^ compli- If you require any m < in t a a o n ••m ill W »» ....... .1 __ m ent as an ■ insult. 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