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T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON. FE B R U A R Y 2, 1899.
Suppose that the sultan should
ask for in d e m n ity and the M oham
medan priests should dem and th at
a Turkish fleet be sent here to en-
force the dem and, would such an
a ttitu d e be deemed an indication of
a fine moral and religious sp irit?
Our governm ent will obtain from
Turkey paym ent covering the
am ount of property belonging to
Am ericans which was w rongfully
destroyed by T urkish subjects, but
[S e cu la r T h o u g h t.
it can take up the cause of the m is
sionaries only as A m erican citizens
Jingoism and H issionary E nter whose rights as such have been vio
prise.
lated by T urkish subjects.
The Spanish-A m erican war has
BY B. F. UNDERWOOD.
no religious aspect for our govern
It is surprising how jingoistic our ment. The m ajority of the people
m issionary organizations and their of this country are P rotestants.
organs and representatives have be The m ajority of S p an iard s are Ro
come. They dem and the annexa m an Catholics. But the defeat of
tion of the P h ilippines as a duty Spain by the U nited States is not
O ur
which the United States owes to the defeat of Catholicism .
C h ristian ity and civilization. M any governm ent cannot favor P rotest
se^m to regard a Spanish-A m erican a n t m issionaries in the Phillipiues.
war, not in purpose, but in fact, as Such a policy would be contrary to
a trium ph of P rotestantism over the principles of our governm ent
Catholicism and th in k th at an op and it would be short sighted. W e
portunity to do m issionary work in have had no q u arrel with S pan
the Philippines, in Porto Rico and iards as C atholics, but only with
Cuba is the great service which th e '^ p a in as a nation th a t has by its
war, if these islands are annexed, cruelty and oppression kept up
will have done for the P ro testan t strife on an island near our coast.
Our governm ent has no right to
faith.
These people w anted the U nited interfere with the religious beliefs
States to send a fleet to C o n stan ti of Cubans, Porto Ricans or Phillip-
nople to dem and a t the can n o n ’s pinos, and it has no disposition to
Yet m any zealots would
m outh th a t T urkey pay for the do so.
dam age done hy M oham m edans drag our governm ent into a posi
to American mission property in tion of quasi-support of a m ission
These people are
Arm enia. For those whose busi ary enterprise.
ness it is to preach the gospel of at perfect liberty to labor in m is
peace on earth and good will to sionary enterprises on the present
men, this was rath e r a belligerent lines and under present m ethods
and th a t ought to satisfy them .
attitude.
But let this be rem em bered, th a t
A p p ro p riate H usic.
it is no part of the work of our gov
ernm ent to assist in m issionary
A traveling showm an recently
work. Our governm ent will insist
on paym ent for the destruction of ssfid:
“ I took out a tableau show some
the property of Am erican citizens
tim e ago, and I had some queer
who were living peaceably in T u r
key. But the wrongs done to mis experiences. We alw ays had tro u
ble getting ruitable m usic, for one
sionaries will be d ealt with as
wrongs done to Am erican citizens, thing. I rem em ber th a t we struck
and the m eans and m ethods should one town where the music was fu r
be left to the governm ent. It will be nished by a seedy, freckle-faced
time enough to send a fleet to Con young m an, who officiated a t a
stantinople when all pacific m eth w reck of a piano.
“ I asked him if he could think of
ods have been exhausted for the re
music ap p ro p riate to each picture
dress of the wrongs done.
The feeling between the a d h e r as it was displayed. ‘Certainly he
ents of different religions is often could, and do it im p ro m p tu .’ The
very bitter and it is not alw ays pos perform ance opened. H e was seat
sible for the au th o rity to prevent ed at the piano and he turned to
outrages on persons and property, look a t the first tableau. It was a
owing ,o religious bigotry and fa- rep "« en W ti« n of Adam and Eve
naticism , when m issionary work is in ,he G ar,len of E d en - Like a
undertaken. If a score of M oham flash he turned and began pound
m edans should come to an A m eri ing out, ‘T here’s Only One Girl in
this W orld for Me’.”
can village and hold religious meet
ings and gain converts to their
Rem em ber, if you send us the
faith, they would lie entitled to nam es and addresses of 25 of *.
protection as T urkish subjects, but your Liberal friends and acquaint-
what a riot th eir labors would stit ances, we will m ake you a present ¿ik|
up. The mosque, even, m ight be of a copy of the Torch of Reason
in danger of destruction if the m i feong Book No. 1. T his will only-
litia were slow in getting to the cost you a few m inutes’ work and a
spot.
2 cent stam p.
erful argum ent in favor of m anual
training in the public schools. The
m ajority of children are so active
that thev * develop * th eir own brains
and nerves to a certain extent along
these lines. W here they fail to do
so. we get the tram p and the sloven.
I, is a physical im possibility to ac
quire skill and dexterity in any art
unless the foundation has been laid
in the form ation of the m otor
nerves before the age of sixteen.—
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