T orch of VOL. 2. R eason . SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1898. NO. 48. Liberty. an internal ÎUuaiônÏ’To think t h « t k , ', ‘ h n l .” *‘“7 no‘ , h“ 80 n> ’ >•» himself and was . . . . i ’ ...... ..«r, iiiuir-eii a n a w as an internal illusion! To think that u.th .he requisitions of theology! also his own father, and who L ib erty , can m an resign thee was Once hav in g felt th v generous they begin with the superstition of hat a new sense of reverence immortal, to die upon the cros« flam e? supposing a God of essentially their Can dungeons, bolts or bars confine thee, awakens ,n us when,dismissing the and, by this sacrifice, to atone for O r w hips th y noble sp irit tam e? own nature, who is their friend and age of a creator bringing the the sin which God himself had Too long th e world has w ept, bew ailing T h at falsehood’s dagger ty ra n ts w ield ; in sympathy with them, and the universe out of nothing, we clearly • , — ■■ j cal,sed Adam to commit, and thus But freedom is o u r sword and shield, director of all the events of their perceive that the very conception to appease the merciless vengeance And all th e ir a rts a re u navailing. lives and the thoughts of their To arm s, to arm s, ye b ra v e ! at i r 13 a g,re8t f°r a'"1 ° f ' he which would T he avenging sw ord u n sh e a th e ! minds; and how\ when driven from D that deeper and deeper down in otherwise have been continued M arch on, m arch on, all h e a rts resolved this grosser superstition by the evi On victory or d e a th . f a r i b t i T l 1 ’.l,'"e’ /.ar,her. a'.'d a«ain8t men -Vet “ »born for an of- —Hom e P astim es. dences of Law which are all around farther away in the vistas of the them, they remove their God a ages, all was still what we see it ftnse they could not have been con --— - - in V cerned or a M accessory to. Wheth Release From Notions.—Entrance stage from them, and talk of a gen- n o w -a system of ever-working er those who had died before Upon Knowledge. eial instead of a particular provi forces, producing forms, uniform in dence, and a necessity which mod certain lines and largely various in Christ’s coming are redeemed the BY HARRIET MARTINEAU. ifies the character of prayer, and the whole, and all under the opera- Bible does not clearly tell us. nf ,• . i. r * 1 h°8e born a^ter are redeemed only how, next, when the absolute do Hnn Ron of „„mutable Law! But lio n condition of their faith in the AM glad I asked you in what minion of Law7 opens more and .... . ......jwu to u h you mt- on pnv sense you used the words . not ’ enlarge the priv- efficacy of the sacrifice offered, and more to their perceptior, excluding I ileges of a state of freedom and re- “God,’’ “Origin,” etc., for your in the truth of the history of Jesus’ reply comes to me like a piece of all notions of revelation and per- ality. You know what it is to have life. The doctrine of salvation by refreshing sympathy—as rare as it soual intercourse between a God no longer cause to blush for the sacrifice of human life is the doc- a man, and of sameness of na- moral character of your faith and ♦ ' T ° u “ m an the doc is refreshing. I can not tell you and ture in God and man: to think to t r ^ h ,« ° f a barba™ * a" d «»Pe»ti how the pain grows upon me of ture in God and man; to think to tremble when a passing breeze tious age; the outgrowth of a bru seeing how little notion men have that, when men have reached this finds its way into the old cavern tal and depraved era. The God of the modesty and largeness of point under the guidance of science, I and shakes its painted vapors and who accepts the bloody offering of conception necessary in approach they should yet cling to the base-j threatens to dissolve them, an innocent victim in lieu of pun less notion of a single, conscious be-1 I look back with a kind of bor ing the study of themselves or any ishing the guilty culprit shows no other part of nature; and in the ing outside of nature—himself uu- ror, as well as deep pity, on myself mercy in sparing the offender: he conduct of their mere daily busi accounted for, and not himself ac- in the days when I thought it mv has already satiated his lust for ness. Of all the people I have ever counting for nature! How far hap- duty to cultivate (against nature) vengeance on the first object pre known, how few there are who can pier it is to see—how much wiser to J an anxious solicitude about my sented to him. suspend their opinion on so vast a adm it— that we know nothing ¡own “salvation”—my own future "Vet sacrifice is an early and whatever about the matter! And spiritual welfare. I should now subject as the origin and progres prominent, and, with slight excep sion of the universe! How few from the moment when we begin to ¡think this as bad as engrossing tion, an abiding feature in the He there are who have ever thought of discover the superstition of our j myself with storing up means of brew record — sacrifice of life finds suspending their opinion! How childhood to be melting away—to prosperity while my brother had appreciative acceptance from the few who would not think it a sin so discover how absurd and shocking need. How sweet it is to be loose Jewish deity. Cain’s offering of to suspend their opinion! To me, it is to be talking every day about ] from all such solicitude, and to let fruits is ineffective, but Abel’s altar however, it seems absolutely neces our own passing moods and paltry ' one’s best nature have its free play bearing the firstlings of his flock, sary, as well as the greatest possi interests to a supposed author and , from hour to hour!—[ Letters on and the fat thereof, finds respect in ble relief, to come to a plain under guide of the universe—how well it| the Laws of Man’s Nature, the sight of the Lord. While the standing with myself about it: and would be for us to set our minds face of the earth was disfigured by free altogether—to open them wide A Relic of Ignorance. deep and sweet is the repose for the rotting dead, after God in his to evidence of what is true and having done so. There is no the infinite mercy had deluged the what is not! Till this is done, by chaules bradlaugh . ory of a God, of an author of na world, then it was that the ascend tore, of an origin of the universe, there is every danger of confusion sac- HE atonement theory, as pre- ing ," « smoke Hn,OKfi from ,7om Noah’s ¡'«>»»’8 burnt burntsic- in our faculties of reverence, of which is not utterly repugnant to eented to U3 by the Bible, is " b'rd a" d ljea8t Produeed conscience, of moral perception, my faculties; which is not (to my ............. . ano pract.ce ot , in »" *>»<>»•: God i t T T , , *,CaVe,‘’ and God him- feelings) so irreverent as to make and of the pursuit and practice of me blush; so misleading as to make trulh. When it is done, what re- crea,e8 man- ««"ounded by such ro88ted' meats"” ' T o T h " h™"? . . ' me mourn. I can now hardly be pose begins to pervade the mind! circumstances 88 <he divine mind What clearness of m o .» l „ ........ ... I chose, in the selection of which man lieve that it was I who once read What clearness of moral purpose bad no* voice, and the effects effects of of . tba" f° " y- . ,t ls , cnme' The Milton with scarcely any recoil; or naturally ensues, and what health past can never be recalled, and the Faley’s Natural Theology with ful activity of the moral faculties! which on man were all foreknown only reference to it should be that, pleasure at the ingenuity of the When we have finally dismissed all and predestined by Deity. The re by marking its events, we may mechanic god he thought he was notion of subjection to a supreme sult is man’s fall on the very first avoid its evil deeds and improve recommending to the admiration lawless will all the perplexing temptation, so frail the nature with upon its good ones. For Jesus him of his readers. To think what the notions about sin and responsibil which he was endowed, or so pow self—can man believe in him?—in God of the multitude is—morally, ity, and arbitrary reward and pun erful the temptation to which he his history contained in anonymous as well as physically! To think ishment—and stand free to see was subjected. For this fall, not pamphlets uncorroborated by con- what the God of the spiritualist is! where we are, and to see our own only does the All-merciful punish pampn,e' 8 «"corroborated by cou- nalure, and recognize our own con- Adam’ Dut also b*8 P°8t«rity; and *8nW"rar5 ,e9,l'no"y y—^>8 history and to remember the admission of nature, and recognize our own con ditions—the relief is like that of thi" Pu">8h>"ent went on for many hich .nordertofulfillaproph- the best of that class, that God is a ditions—the relief is like that of coming out of a cave full of paint Centuri“ - “»‘¡' «»d, the immuta 8 y » ^ h does not relate to him, projection of their own ideal fac free ~~ sky *” is demon- j , b|e, chaug,,! his purpose of oontin- Htr , dT " ulty, recognizable only through ed shadows under the ---- with the earth open a ro u n d . .. “al condemnation of men for sins 8‘ ' t8( by''"«.ug through two self- that class of faculties, and by no with the earth open around us to they had no share in, and was Icontrad,c' ory genealog.es the de- means through any external evi the horizon. \\ hat a new percep wearied with his long series of un- ° f J°8<>ph who wa" not bis dence! to see that they give the tion we obtain of “the beauty of . " just judgments on those whom he j fa‘ber ~ th,ei hl8t°ry >" which the same account of the origin of idols; holiness —the lovl.nessofa health- cr,.8ted ¡„ order , hat hg infinite God grows from babyhood and simply pronounce that the first ful moral condition - accordant judge them. That then God O I T tbe„ pa’