B eason .
OF
SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1899.
VOL. 3.
NO. 14.
current of evolutionary cha* ges, a full-grow n y o u n g g ia n t wh«>sp I dowed men w ith th a t sort of per
but possess some power of selection ___
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invincibility
they
are doom ed to fection of which their natu re is
If some men are
and adaptation. T h at such power publicly recognize. The foundat susceptible?
BY G. H . WALSF.R.
of choice may be wisely used, every jong of science are real and solid good -or render them selves agree
HERE
more p precious
e n d e a v o r sh
o u ld be
he d directed
irec ted t to o o oh-
H
E R E liveth
livetn a jewel morv
r e iuuO endeavor
should
n - There is a difference between able to their god, why did not th is
god bestow the same favor or give
a n gold.
th an
gold,
i taining a better knowledge of nat- w orld-m aterial and dream s.
Vnre precious than diamonds i
-i
from
ir o m Africa’s
r t ili v ® o field.
, ure
— - s m eth o d s, , tn a t we m a y
. avoid
In building anew, and with new the same dispositions to all beings
Which
a p p ears i—
[as th e w earer ¿to
a g irti
far no
as possible the
aterial,
avoid m
the r u danger
of of our kind? \Yhv does the n u m
( men b rig h te r «pi-----
v--’ m istakes al-
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iija
ir ija i, we
v* c avuiu
a iig n VI
grows old,
I
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ber of wicked exceed so greatly the
Prottcthi'g
tecting the
th e breast
breast asjan
asaa n armor
a rm o r and
and ways attending superstition or im- , |)H coming scientific civilization
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'r accom
. plish
r,.,u being weakened hv aging beams num ber of good people? W hy, for
shield.
perfect knowledge.
To
When th ’ shadow of T im e as th e m a n tle t h i s d e s ire d result we must give and braces, and by needless ex- every friend, does God find ten
of night,
our attention (now that we know posure to theological disease germs. thousand enemies in a world which
In silence approaches, perfo rm in g its
the danger of the old and have re* The great evolutionary movement depended npon him alone to people
task,
Then welcomed the future will be with solved
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• i or en with honest men? I f it is true th at
rebuild),
to the new • does
not require
the aid
delight,
The wearer will have no reg rets of th e work. Is it not our duty to tu rn dorsem ent of any diluted brand of God intends to form in heaven a
p ast.
our hacks on the condemned creeds C hristianitv or anv other kind of court of saints, of chosen ones, or of
It softens the h e a rt and it b rig h te n s th e and give undivided attention to religion. It does depend upon a men who have lived in this world
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Enhances the cheeks with sweet In- the new work in hand? We have strict adherence to scientific tru th . according to his views, would he not
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f i l l ? —
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a
nocence’s bloom ,
ceased to be mere “ u n b e lie v e rs” in
Freethinkers would strengthen have had a court more num erous,
It wards from the b reast th e sh a rp sting
the old, we are believers in, and their Clause by a scientific study of more brilliant, and more honorable
of a sigh „
And keepeth th e m ind from th e tra m workers for the new.
nature, and by so doing arm them to him, if it were composed of all
mels of gloom.
This course is n atu ra l. The new selves with an invincible array of men to whom, in creating them , he
It honors th e brow of both m anhood sprout starts before the old branch facts ami reasonable and legiti could have granted the degree of
*
and age,
goodness
necessary
to
obtain
eter
And sh ield eth from evil th e footsteps is entirely dead, ami by the vigor m ate conclusions therefrom . It is
F inally, were it
of y o u th ;
of its growth aids in the early possible to build better than we in nal happiness?
Enriches th e m ind of lx>th sta te sm a n
elim ination of its once useful and this generation know. The fruits not easier to take man from no
and sage,
W ho foster, w ith care th is b rig h t vigorous, but now dw indling and of good as well as the fruits of evil thingness than to create him full of
jewel of T ru th .
harm ful predecessor.
Keep the are progressive. The enem y’s de defects, rebellious to his creator,
old house watched and propped fenses are down; let us strengthen perpetually exposed to lose him
For the Torch of Reason.
self by a fatal abuse of his liberty?
enough for safety, until the new our own.
Solid Foundations.
structure is readv for occupancy.
Scientific knowledge is not some Instead of creating men, a perfect
H as th at tim e arrive«!?
Does thing out o f reach of the average god ought to have created only do
BY G. W . M OREHOUSE.
cile and subm issive angels.
The
nature-know ledge offer the world m ind; on the contrary very much
angels, it is said, are free; a few'
E who would erect an en- more of good and promise than do of its most pleasant and useful among them have sinned; hut all
duirng stru ctu re m ust first theological authority and em otion teaching is within the grasp of
of them have not sinned; all have
m ake sure of the stability al credulity? H as not science a l nearly all. A ttention, d eterm inat
not abused their liberty by revolt
of its foundations. 1 he next con most won the battle against ig ion and work are necessary. ing against th eir m aster. Could
siderations are good m aterials and norance and superstition? There Once start and the m ind will be not God have created only angels
strengthened and illum inated by
skilled and careful w orkm anship. can he hut one answer.
of the good kind? If God could
In substituting scientific know l reading, reasoning and investigat
The thinker of to-day is fast
create angels who have not sinned,
reaching the decision th a t the old edge for religious superstition the ing along the line of our environ could he not create men sinless or
creeds have leached the point /if m aterial gain to our race is every m ent. N ature is the fountain of those who would never abuse their
decay where every attem pt at re where in evidence. The intellect all knowledge.
liberty by doing evil. If the chos
pair is a costly failure. T he c rit ual gain in the realm s of reason,
en ones are capable of sinning in
No Right to Punish.
ical inspectors, ami the advancing investigation, and m ental disci
heaven, could not God have made
knowledge of n atu re have condem pline are scarcely less m arked.
sinless men upon the e a rth ? —
BY JE A N M E H L IE R .
[Common sense.
ned the supports upon which the The m oral gain, resting on the
whole trem bling pile rests. Many solid foundations of experience,
AN’S nature, it is said, m ust
Modern Bible critics, pursuing
have seen this, and have been at after the recovery from tem porary
necessaily become corrupt. scientific m ethods of study, have
work tearing aw ay a rotten piece disturbing elem ents n atu rally aris
God could not endow him obtained results which dem on
here and another there, in the in ing during a period of rapid change
strate, so far as the subject is
with
sinlessness,
which
is
an
inal-
will
not
he
less.
terest of the safety and progress of
capable of dem onstration, th a t:
The
universal
recognition
of
a
¡enable
portion
of
divine
perfection.
The hooks com prising our m od
hum anity. The tim e is a t hand
code
of
ethical
principles
founded
But
if
God
could
not
render
him
sin-
ern
Bible are selections from an
when the old home must he a b a n
ancient literatu re com prising his
doned and a new shelter erected. on experience and the study of h-ss, why did b e ta k e the trouble of
tory, poetry and rom ance, covering
It is to tterin g to its fall, and its n atu ra l laws will tend to bringj creating m an, whose n atu re was to a period of more than a thousand
inm ates and their near neighbors about a brotherhood of m an. Only become corrupt, and which, con- years. Science and scholarship
,,, danger. .
through such enlightenm ent m ay sequently, had offended God? On have dem onstrated th a t it is wrong
are in
Some are in favor of taking ret- we hope to see the end of war, in- the other side, if God him self was in its account of the creation of the
uge tem porarily in the open, tear- ordinate greed, and needless rais not able to render hum an nature universe; wrong in its account of
sinless, what right had he to punish the origin of m an; wrong in its
ing down the old shell an d build- ery.
story of a universal deluge; wrong
ing anew on th e sam e site. Some
Science, which is another name men for not being sinless? It is! in accounting for the diversity of
would prefer a new site, and are for knowledge of n atu re and man w but by the right of m ight. But the languages; wrong in its ch ronol
willing to let the old house stand relation t> the universe, is the right of the strongest is violence; ogy; wrong in much of its history;
as long as it w ill—a general recept- tru e guide and only hope o f h u - |a n d violence is not suited to the wrong in its in terp retatio n of
It is com ing of age. most just of beings. God would be n atu re ; wrong in its ideas of God;
acle for relics arul rubbish. S o m e m anity.
wrong in its ideas of men; wrong
in building, would use all new m a Some interested theologians try suprem ely unjust if he punished in its Christology; wrong in ac
terial, others would select more or to m ake their «leiuded followers men for not having a portion of counting for the origin of sin and
l^ss of the old, p u ttin g old bricks believe th at Science is only in its divine perfections, or for not being wrong in m any of its m oral teach
i n g s — [D. B. Stedm an in Free-
stage;
hut in their able to he gods like himself.
into
w new
lien buildings.
uunuiiign.
if pin-feather
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n
Could not God have at least en- thought M agazine.
We are floating along in t h e ’secret thoughts th e y know it to be
Truth.
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