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THE TORCH
O F R E A SO N , S IL V E R T O N , O R E G O N , JA N U A R Y
19. 1899.
-¡Uer it complex, con.bting of all of
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by KNAKF kemooc .
The physical, or ponderable,
parts must first be built up in
Life: How every thought cen- prOper Hhape and condition to re- / | \
ters on the word! How we long to ^ ¡ v e tb e min(jy or “impressions.”
continue our present existence. Io ^ be process is gradual, and the im-
remain, after our days of usefulness pregsion8 are received gradually or,
are over, a barren tree upon the .q otber worj p> “grow” into the
To sell property
field of progress! Merely to see,
ag part thereof.
To buy •/ a home
feel and think we would remain, the
far ag t nown> imponderable
To go into business
one desolate object upon a pleasant bodie(J are subject to the same nat-
To exchange real or personal property
landscape.
ural law’s as ponderable bodies, and
And what is life? It is motion, it .g nQt reagonable to suppose there
To work, or to hire workers
force, action, evolution, progression, are exceptions.
ANYTHING
moving, growing, inconstant, ever-
Then, if mind is matter in corn-
changing; whirling in cycles infin- bination wjth the body, it must be
itesimally small and inconceivably either disintegrated with the body
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great, pushing forward toward some and enter into new combinations,
unknowm goal of perfection.
possessing entirely new properties,
And yet we fear death! Yet all or set free to mix with the ether
Nature proclaims: “ There is no which permeates all space, to be
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death.” Even decay is life and absorbed again by other bodies ac­
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W a te r S t r e e t ,
growth, chemical force, creating a quiring ‘‘mind ”
O pposite L iberal H all.
new body from the atoms of the
If mind is (as I believe) a prop­
erty, or motion of an imponderable
old.
That fallen tree, you say, is dead ether acting upon the ponderable
and rotting. It is not dead. Ev­ matter of the body, it must have
ery atom is alive, forming new the body to act upon before it can
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chemical combinations, whirling, become “mind,” or thought. There­
rushing forward, growing, perhaps fore, the disintegration of the body
into a new tree more grand and leaves nothing for it to act upon,
beautiful than the old, and bearing and there can be no thought.
more wholesome fruit, and you call
But it does not die. This matter,
that death: it is immortality. How whether ponderable or impondera­
easy to put a superstitious mean­ ble, will continue moving and en­
tering into new combinations, and
ing to this.
The caterpillar goes into his cof­ when the proper conditions occur,
fin, the chrysalis, and after under­ mind will again be formed. Mat­
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is resurrected a beautiful butterfly. erterties will be the same under
This is where our theological friends like
conditions.
<e conniuons.
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would leave us, poor mortal worms.
We can not logically conceive a
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Immortal, everlasting, unchanging hereafter or heaven except an evo-
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butterflies. Leading a useless ex­ utionary one created by human
istence, lounging on Wall street in beings for the benefit of people liv­
The Government nationalized the
New Jerusalem, without sorrow or ing at the time, and we can not cre­
the Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD
trouble, except listening to the ate such a heaven by worshipping
in his book entitled............................
jingle of the Chinese bands and the he dead, or by deifying musty ro­
UNCLE S A M ’S
prayers of Job.
mance, moldy customs or unjust
But the butterfly is more fortu­ laws.—[Independent Pulpit.
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“ mind.”
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2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil-
and wheu did we get our minds? i
N o te or L e tte r H e a d s ,
Who kept them in store for us be­ 3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable?
S ta te m e n ts ,
4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions.
fore we were born?
T ic k e ts , P ro g ra m s ,
Like the body, we get our minds 5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit?
I n v ita tio n s ,
6 Immortality or Annihilation?
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