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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1899)
T H E TORCH O F REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON , JA N U A R Y 12. 1899. h im ’’ to lead him to the pillars up which teaches the fall of m an, pie- ! on which the roof rested, saying he destination and election, and by “ wanted to lean on them .” It was plain inference, infant dam nation. done. It is true th a t glim pses of tru th After he had been shaven, his and waves of liberal thought have, h air began to grow, and by the to some extent, perm eated the pew, A’Ay tim e this celebration was held, it otherwise we doubt if the pulpit had grown q u ite long. His captors would have the courage to u tter as evidently did not know enough to much liberal thought as it does keep it short, so his strength re We opine th a t the pew will do more turned. As soon as he reached the to liberalize the p u lp it th an the pillars, he leaned on them with all pulpit will do to liberalize the pew. his strength and they broke, and It is true, as I said before, th a t oc- the house cam e down, “ and the casionally a clergym an expresses dead th a t he slew at his death were an unorthodox idea, b u t no sooner more th an they which he slew in does he do so than he discovers th a t h islite .” he has stirred up a h o rn ets’ nest. W hat kind of architecture was If Dr. Abbott casts a doubt on the this house? It was large enough Jo n ah and the whale story, class to perm it 3,000 people, who were on ing it as fiction and not a state m ent of fact, Mr. Moody rushes to the roof to see Sam son m ake fun th e assistance of the whale and when he was between the two main loudly proclaim s th a t he w ants pillars of the house, yet these p il everybody to distinctly understand lars were n ear enough together to th a t he believes everything in the enable him to get his hands on Bible, from cover to cover. I f a n y one doubts the capacity of the ark them and push or pull them ap art. to contain a p air of every kind of T he pictorial Bible represents living th in g upon th e earth, a cler them as massive stone and the gym an hastens to declare, over his building the same; it certain ly own nam e, th a t the A lm ighty could m ust have been an exceedingly have com pressed an elep h an t till he was no bigger than an ant; and he strong one to support so m any peo fu rth er says, “ If God should re ple. Yet Samson pushed or pulled quire him to believe a lie, he would these pillars so th a t they broke do so, believing th a t he m eant it asunder, the whole building fell to for his good.”— [Edw in A. P otter in the ground and killed m any peo F reethought Magazine. ple. It was a peculiarly co n stru ct ed building, to say the least. T his story shows the spirit of exaggeration ram p an t during the early ages of intellectual de MRS. D. L. FIESTER. PROP. velopm ent. Hero worship had peopled the world with beings of wonderful stren g th , endurance and ...FASHIONABLE M ILLIN ER Y.. power. From the A ryan sun wor shippers cam e poetical fancies which were m aterialized by the practical, m aterialistic, Hebrew race un til LA TEST STYLES they can scarcely be recognized. L A R G E S T STO C K These stories are on a par with F R I C E S R IG -H T the old In d ian legend of the Pau- paukewis, who had the faculty of changing his form to correspond set tue lovely productions with w hat he w anted to do. A lthough ..... BY OUR...... frequently killed, he came to life again as soon as the sun went down and the body he inhabited when killed became cold. We can not look at them in any other way. 291 Commercial Street, The P a ris Chicago T rim m e r! Liberal Thought in Churches. SALEM - OREGON Six Tracts to Promote I t is true th a t there is, now and then, a clergym an skirm ishing around, ostensibly in search of the tru th , but not one in a hundred of even this sm all num ber is brave In Place of Christianity: enough to follow his own logic to its legitim ate conclusion; but the 1 Can Sms be Forgiven? 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil great m ajority of them are still ization? d inning in our ears the sam e stale 3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable? dogmas th at have been preached by 4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions. the P ro testan ts for three hundred, 5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit? and by th e C atholics and early i 6 Immortality or Annihilation? JU8T THE THING C hristians for nearly nineteen h u n dred years; for dc not the C atho to hand to yorr Christian friends. Send 2 cents for 6, or 6 cents for 25 tracts, lics boast th a t th eir church never to E liza M owry B liven , Brook lyn, Conn., or send 10 cents changes? 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