VOL. 3.
S IL V E R T O N , OREG O N , TH U R SD A Y , A P R IL 6, D 99.
NO. 13.
Legend of the Enchanted Hill.
old theological personage, the czar oak contains in germ a forest of
being such, it is an obstruction,
or pope in the heavens who made oa k s.
rath er than a m eans, to the pro
Revised for th e Torch of R eason.
the world once on a tim e, and re
From the w ritings of Paul it is gress of wom an. Yet the preach
quires worship and incense to keep evident th a t the C hristian Hebrew
n ancient legend, good or ill,
ers, repeating tra d itio n a ry belief,
Describes a fair, en chanted hill
him in good tem per tow ard his held woman in no more respect
will continue to repeat t h a t the
c,im rnit, rsftcHinjj io th e ?kies,
V« c a t u i c o .
th an did the Mosaic Hebrew. In
Contained a very precious prize
Bible has elevated and is elevating
W
hat
is
the
a
ttitu
d
e
of
the
Bible
For him who would ascend to find,
stead of Pauline C h ristian ity being woman.
Vet did not cast a look b e h in d ;
in
relation
to
women?
The
old
a m onum ent in behalf of the eleva
One backward glance, aye, one alone
Would change th e clindier in to stone!
testam ent puts a m a n ’s wife in the tion of woman, it was a m ovem ent
same category with his ox and his to m ake the subserviency of woman Conflict Betw een Science and
And he foreverm ore would be
A stony statu e fair to see;
Religion.
ass. The position of woman in a n to the ruder sex perm anent. Paul
And everm ore in seem ing pride
cient E g y p t was relatively high; seems to have regarded woman as
Adorn the h ill’s e n ch an tin g side,
A guide in all th e future tim e,
so it was am ong th a t division of the did th a t later A rabian prophet,
BY P. B. LADD.
For those who did a tte m p t to c lim b ,-
Greek race known as the Dorians. Mohammed, as in perm anent eclipse
But all who trie d th e prize to find
Somehow would cast a look behind.
But the position of woman among to man and a mere m eans of con
here is no room to question
Upon th a t hillside did a th ro n g
the Hebrews was essentially subor tinuing the hum an race. If Re
the fact th a t science and re
Of sirens sing an endless song.
dinate.
The
social
condition
of
the
n a n ’s description of P au l’s personal
Its groves were beautiful to see
ligion are, as they ever have
With sylvian dells, fair as could lx*,
mass of women was one of inferior appearance is correct, he “ was ug been, in deadly conflict.
With blossoms th a t did charm th e eyes
ity and subjection. The heroine of ly, stouj,, short and stooping, and
Of all who clam bered for th e prize;
A stronom y has filled endless
With flowing stream s like rills of wine,
the Biblical pastoral entitled R uth, his broad shoulders aw kw ardly sus space with worlds and system s of
And fruits of paradise divine.
was the subject of purchase on the tained a little, bald head” . But worlds th a t have existed from
And m any did a tte m p t to clim b,
part of her Hebrew husband, Boaz, homely as he was corp orally, he eternity. Religion
has created
So says this tale of olden tim e,
who evidently loved her, hut whose was beyond doubt a man of genius, hut a single world, our little e a rth ,
I'n til the hillside grew m ore fair
With lifeless sta tu e s stan d in g th e re ;
behavior tow ard her was dictated as his epistles ab u n d an tly prove. and lighted it, for the sole benefit
With lifeless sta tu e s gazing back
by mere cast-iron custom and us But he was a w om an-hater. In his of m an, with a little sun and moon,
Fpon a form er place or track,
W here some fair siren in disguise
age, and not by the heart at all. A first epistle to Tim othy, he wrote: and a few little stars, all m ade in
Had tried to win them from the prize.
nearer kinsm an of Naomi would “ I suffer not a woman to teach, nor a single day, and created out of
Life is th a t fair en ch an ted hill,
have had R uth if he had wanted to usurp au th o rity over the m an, nothing.
And happiness th e prize; for good or ill,
her, but he did not happen to w ant hut to be in silence.” In the four
We clim b the realm so fair to find.
Science reveals our earth as a
Our vices m ake us look behind.
her. R uth is represented as “ fall teenth chapter of the first epistle to globe revolving on its axis around
Our vices are th e sirens fair
ing on her face and Lowing herself the C orinthians, P a u l’s O riental th e sun.
That woo us backw ard to d espair,
I nto the sins th a t we have know n—
to the gro u n d ” before Boaz, the Is spirit breaks out in full bloom.
Religion makes the earth a flat
* Fill death shall change us into stone.
raelite grandee, whom she, under He writes as we m ight suppose surface, and carries the sun around
the shrewd instruction of her m oth the m aster of a seraglio would:
it.
Religious m an, in his ignor
The Bible and W omen.
er-in-law , was trying to captivate.
“ Let your women keep silence in ance, stops the sun to fight his b a t
I his illustration sufficiently indi the churches; fo r it is not perm itted tles, while science tolerates no
BY B. F. UNDERWOOD.
cates the prostrate and servile con un to them to speak, but they are quietude in the universe.
dition of women w ithin the dom ain com m anded to he under obedience,
Religion created the first m an a
he preachers never tire of of the Hebrew law-givers.
“ Thy as also saith the law .”
perfect being; science found him a
repeating the statement, th at desire shall be to thv husband and
Elsewhere he enjoins wives to be savage. Religion put him in a
the Bible is a perfect rule he shall rule over thee”— expressed in subjection to th eir husbands in
paradise; science found him in a
of faith and practice, a perfect the present Jewish sentim ent. A all things. T hus the P auline idea
wilderness.
Religion
degraded
guide in all the affairs of life, Hebrew prayer repeated to th is day of woman approached th a t of Mo
him as time rolled on, while sci
and th at it will ever he so in by the orthodox Jew of the m ascu ham m ed and of the old Greek po
ence advances him in the scale of
all conditions and circum stan line gender, thanks God th a t he et, Hesiod, according to which she hum anity and reason.
ces in which m an shall exist. (the m an) was not. h o rn a w o m a n is a mere toy and m eans of sensual
Religion created this earth about
But the fact is, the Bible is a book Solomon, th e sage of the Hebrews pleasure and of the continuation of
6,000 years ago, and peopled it in
as foreign to all the objects and (the worst m an th a t ever lived or the race— a necessary evil, im peril- the short space of six days; science
aims of the enlightened civilization ever should live, according to the ¡ng by her subtility and beauty
goes hack countless m illions of
of today as are the terra cotta re Bible), said th at “one m an am ong m asculine virtue and continence,
years to find its beginning, ' and
cords of the old A ssyrian m onarchy. a th o u san d ” he has found, but he forsooth, unless she is kept caroful-
then carries it through other m il
It is irrelevant to the life of today has never found a true woman.
ly under lock and key.
lions of years before m an m ade his
of the foremost nations.
It is a
Let us pass from the days of the
Though the Feudal church ex appearance on it. Religion finds a
mere relic and curiosity for the pastoral b arbarians of Israel, and alted the m other o f C hrist, t h e ‘Ma- powerful being, in the im age of a
' udy of the archaeologist, who from the Israel of Moses and the ter Dolorosa’, above deitv. and
m an, residing in the heavens, who
alone can u n d erstan d it.
prophets, to the great Hebrew of m ade the worship of her universal, out of nothing m ade the universe!
I he masses in the Bible period th a t later Israel which had passed yet th a t sam e church steadily rep-
Science finds force or g ravitatio n
''ere slaves or savages, creatures of under the all-absorbing rule of Ro- resented woman as essentially u n
to be a property of m atter, and a
' >bit and instinct as much as are m an im perialism .
St. P aul, the clean and an in stru m en t of S atan. sufficient cause for the existence
beasts. I wo n atu ra l personalities Hellenized Jew, who was imbued There were any num ber of holy
and m aintenance of the universe.
" p rie s t and king — supplem ented with the poetry and philosophy of places from which woman was de-
Science teaches th a t planets are
b\ two alleged su p ern atu ral per Greece as well as with the lore of barred, on the ground th at her pres-
born, live to old age, and die; th a t
sons—God and S a ta n —are all the Israel, was the real founder of ence therein would be pollution. they being as tenuous gas, become
Personalities whom the Bible recog- C hristianity, the prim itive au th o r She w ts ta u g h t to he asham ed of fluid, solidity, live in the vegetable
oizts. Now it is precisely these four of C hristian theology, the sp iritual her dress, for it was the m em orial
and anim al epochs, and finally,
• m inating official persons th a t the ancestor of all the form ulators of of her fall; and of her beauty, for
like our moon, revolve as dead
enlightened civilization of today is C hristian creeds of w hatever race it was th e most potent charm of
bodies; th a t our sun and other
uccessfuRy endeavoring to elimi- or century. He contained Augus- the enem y of souls.
suns are still in their infancy, per
1 ‘ as factors in hum an affairs, tine and Dominick and Ignatius
C h ristian ity , in its origin and haps in tim e to become solid bod
course the god here m eant is the Loyola and C a lv in ,‘in posse’ as an doctrines, is an O rientalism ; and ies fit for habitation.
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