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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
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