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R eason .
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VOL. 3.
NO. 8.
S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , MARCH 2, 1899.
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i wise conclusions. Bovs never learn true knowlege of n ature, and where w ithout proof. Its deity is an in
Strength and Courage.
to swim until they gain access to it begins, science ends. There is a visible and im aginary being, m an
BY CHARLOTTE P E R K IN S 8T K T 8O ».
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the water. L iberty is th e father of higher em otion, a higher poetry of m ade, modeled after a dead p a tri
T T takes g reat stre n g th to tra in
strong men. Free, brave and hon- science, th at is safe, tolerant, pro arch, chief or king, is the m ysteri
W hen th is ous source of the “ rig h t” of kings to
To m odern service your ancestral e8( men will seek the tru th for its gressive and enduring.
To lift th<T w eight of th e u n n u m b ere d own sake, and if w ithout bias, suf- is reached, general efforts will be rule, and is waning with them .
* years
ficiently intelligent and broad m ind- put forth, w ithout fear or favor, to Science killed the devil. Science
Of dead m en ’s h a b its,m e th o d s and id eas;
To hold th a t back w ith one h a n d , and ed. will eschew all forms of super redeem m ankind from the in tem investigates, and the people th in k .
su p p o rt
n a tu ra lism .
S tudy science, in perance of selfishness and su p ersti Old creeds follow the flint flakes.
W ith th e o th e r th e weak steps of a new
..
People are counting the cost and
th o u g h t.
books and nature, all your spare tion.
To unlearn the teaching of cen will dem and th e best.
.
i # tim e, . including
S undays,
and
It takes g rea t stre n g th to bring y o u r life
...
?
/
m the
..
I t gums up th a t the whole th e
Up sq u are
tru th will m ake you free, l r y it. turies, em phasized with rack and
W ith your accepted th o u g h t, and hold it
Those whose interests require that torch, is a slow process. Bruno ological stru ctu re is an artificial
th e re ;
the people should be lulled to sleep was burned after the discovery of fabric, bu ilt on sand, in the in fa n
Resisting th e in e rtia th a t drags back
From new a tte m p ts to th e old h a b it’s are forever preaching contentm ent. America and the circum navigation cy of the race, and today is a
track .
They deprecate unrest, well know of the globe. We can rem em ber crum bling ruin. In tellig en t theo
It is so easy to d rift back, to sink ;
So h ard to live a b re ast of w hat you ing th at doubt and dissatisfaction when T yndall incurred the displeas logians are th in k in g of what can be
th in k !
with things as they are, are the ure of the church by his Belfast saved from the tum bling pile. T he
It takes stre n g th to live w here you b e
m ainsprings of progress. C ontent address, and a bishop at Buffalo ruins of ancient tem ples still show,
long
W hen o th e r people th in k th a t you are m ent would have retained the stage warned his flock against H uxley, cut in stone, th e im ages of the gods
w rong;
when he was an honored visitor at they symbolized. In tim e all dei
People you love an d w ho love you, and coach, as it has a still more worm
eaten theology.
In stead of de the m eeting of the American Asso ties will crum ble to dust, w hether
whose
Approval is a pleasure you would choose.
ciation for the A dvancem ent of Sci carved in stone or impressed in th e
To bear th is p ressu re an d succeed a t pendence upon others and upon a
length
dead and decaying past, a living, ence. T yndall and H uxley were grav m atter of the brain.
In living your belief — well, it tak es
W hen the happy tim e shall come
active self-reliance is the one thing not the ones who were harm ed; and
stre n g th
a m onum ent to B runo stan d s on when men cease their efforts to a p
needful.
And courage, too. B ut w h a t does cour
There is yet great and im m inent the spot where he suffered m a rty r pease the w rath of gods and dem
age m ean
o n s , they will turn vast treasures of
Save stren g th to h elp you face a pain danger th a t the higher civilization dom.
foreseen?
The time is rapidly approaching tim e, energy, love and money to
Courage to u n d e rta k e th is lifelong stra in th a t science has enabled us to en
Of settin g yours ag ain st your g ra n d s ire ’s ter upon, may be overthrow n and when the opponents of su p e rn a t th e practical work of m aking life
b r a in ;
uralism will show an unw avering more useful and enjoyable. T he
Dangerous risk of w alking lone and free lost to h u m an ity for centuries to
Out of th e easy p a th s th a t used to be,
come, as was the case with the and unbroken front. In this age cost to m ankind of those relics of
of rising Science, so-called orthodox b arb arism — superstition, in tem p er
And th e fierce pain of h u rtin g those you knowledge once centered a t Alex
andria. I t has been well said th a t religion owes the world an apology ance, greed and war— would insure
love
W hen love m eets tru th and tr u th m ust “ E tern a l vigilance is the price of for its existence. I t should abate a life of comfort and reasonable
ride above.
B ut th e best courage th a t m an has ever liberty.” This is doubly true of re its arrogance and presum ption, see leisure for every m an, woman and
show n
ligious liberty, th e slowest growth itself as others see it, repent its past child. All these evils will he g rad
Is daring to cu t loose and th in k alone.
of all. It will never do to forget crimes and present sins, and volun ually done away with as man comes
the cost of the m oiety we enjoy. It ta rily come down out of the sad to fully realize his place in n atu re,
A Vision of Peace.
and learns to m ake the most of it.
is our d u ty to so do our p a rt that dle. *
our posterity m ay he saved from
Its heaven has vanished into T he hope of the future rests
BY GEORGE W. MOREHOUSE.
persecutions such as our ancestors th in air. I io nell has disappeared with science .— [The W ilderness of
W orlds.
H A T superstition is to the passed through. The upw ard march with the foundations of th e ea rth ,
ig n orant, su p em atu ral- of m an k in d , shackled with the and will eventually freeze up with
The Issue.
chains
of
superstition,
has
left
all
the
planet.
Its
prayers
and
pre
ism is to the educated.
Even in the cultivated fields of sci along its trail, foot p rin ts stained tended m iracles have never in ter
H E au th o r of the valuable
with
blood.
The
m
onum
ents
of
rupted
the
course
of
the
law
of
ence insidious tares are yet found
work entitled The Clergy a
progress
have
been
broken
in
stru
cause
and
effect.
Its
persecutions
choking the wheat.
8ource of Danger to the R e
m
ents
of
to
rtu
re
and
th
e
extin-
are
recoiling
upon
itself.
Its
ev
It is difficult for the m ind to dis
public, W . F. Jam ieson, says;
ery
position
taken
in
opposition
to
tinguish between belief and knowl- guished fires of fanaticism ,
“ C h ristian ity is not only foreign,
Science
is
sincere
and
tolerant.
Science
has
been
to
it
a
boomerang.
edge. It is easy to close the eyes
hut antagonistic to A m erican lib er
and seem to to th in k , while at the I ‘ >■»»
persecuted. Its hands I t has weakened m orality by the ty. E ith er C h ristia n ity or a peo
same tim e we do not th in k a bit.]»™ u n stain ed . L et them alwayB insecurity of the foundations it of ple’s free governm ent m ust fall.
Saying we u n d erstan d is not un- rem ain so. It has suffered wrong fered. I t is being forced to revise W hich shall it be? Let liberty he
derstanding. L et us stu d y these
»Hence. To escape persecution its theory of charities to accord overthrow n in America, and where
deep subjects while we are physic- and conflict, it lias, with Galileo, with the teaching of science. Its would it dare to raise its h ea d ?”
W ill C hristians persist in th e
ally and m entally vigorous, and oi‘eD denied the tru th . To escape chronology and cosmogony are
folly and m adness of defying those
not wait for the sem i-delirium aria- ostracism and the num erous intol- overthrow n. The rib story and the in whose m inds have been inculcated
ing from the approach of death, erant aggressions o f t h e c h u r c h .i t fall of m an have vanished with the a fervent longing for liberty, an in
Our best m ental action while in
° f e n suppresses, and even de deluge and the dispersion of la n tense consciousness of right, a th o r
health should be our guide.
nie8 the tru lh
The common guages a t Babel. Its em otional ough belief in political and religious
W e should b an ish from our rem ark am ong confidential friends “ experiences” are explained on equality, an ard en t love of ju stice
and an undying conviction of the
m inds as far as possible all bias ‘h a t “ we know the8e th in g9 to ** physiological grounds. Its etern al (ultim ate) trium ph of tru th ?
arising from heredity or early train - ‘ rue, but it is best to keep still; it life will hardly survive the death
As Mr. T. B. W akem an has said:
ing. Let our judgm ent on these w*ll not do to come out openly and of the planet. It« ritu al, baptism , “The question will have to be tried
great questions be unw arped, and >e‘ it be know n,” is the expression trin ity , sym bols, im m aculate con out, which is the real governm ent
of the people—the republic or the
free from fear. F ear represses pro- u f a rule of conduct am ong a largt ception, relics, etc., were no less
ch u rch ?”
gress. Set people free and they and in tellig e n t class. Reason is significant to the Pagans th an to it.
W ill th is great republic survive
will develop because they are free. less aggressive th a n unguided emo- Its kind of creative work has taken the contest?
The issue is the life of the nation!
a rest. Its belief is not knowledge,
The responsibilities of freedom dis- tion.
cipline the judgm ent and lead to
Religion is em otion without the nor works; and faith is credulity —[F a ith and Fact.
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