TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JU N E 29 1899.
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reasonable person than tolerance of rfcn at Beth|ehem> and after it was U U r
the opinions of others. [Ex.
finished her mother asked her what
It is seldom that meanness of she thought of it. “ Well,” she re­ N e w
disposition is found associated with pijed, “I think God was aw ful'
high mental attainm ents.—[Com- selfiHh to save his own little hoy C arp ets
mon Sense.
and nobody else’s.”—[Unity.
are
Those who disbelieve in virtue
ig narrated that a New Eng-
because a man has never been lantj preacher the other day was,
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found perfect, might as reasonably horrified d uring his sermon by dis-
deny the sun, because it is not al coverjng his son in the gallery pelt-
S e lle rs
ways noon.—[Ex.
ing his hearers in the pews below
Apostate Christians are more con- with peanuts. But while the good
cerned about leaving the earth on man was preparing a frown of re-
gome star-bound journey than they | proof, the young hopeful cried out:
are about making the world better “ You teud to your preaching S IL V E R T O N
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for the rising generation. [Flam ­ daddy; I ’ll keep ’em awake.”
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An American soldier who had
been ill for a long time with fever
fell into a state of coma recently,
and was declared to be dead. 1 he
night preceding the day fixed for
his burial he regained conscious­
ness and scrambled out of his
coffin. Attendants rushed in and
stimulants were applied, and the
supposed dead man soon recovered.
Men can never understand the
In relating the facts he assured bis
fear of everlasting punishment that
hearers that when he appeared to
fills the souls of women and chil­
be dying the experience was very
dren. The orthodox religion, as
pleasaut, but when he began to re­
drawn from the Bible and ex­
cover consciousness he knew that
pounded by the church, is enough
he was not dead because his feet
to drive the most imaginative and
were cold and he was hungry.
“I
sensitive natures to despair and
don’t understand what you meau,”
death.—[Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
said a bystander. “ Well,” replied
The story of Jesus has the ap­ the man, “I knew if I were in
pearance of having been written in heaven 1 shouldn’t be hungry, and
the dark. It will not bear criti­ if I were in hell my feet wouldn’t
cism as a biography, and as a ro­ be cold.”—[Commoner.
mance its hero lacks sentiment.
Jesus is painted too divine for a
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he is but the thought of man pic­
tured in words.—[Investigator.
ing Sword.
Some men will not shave on Sun­
day, and yet they spend all the
week in shaving their fellow men;
and many folks think it is very
wicked to blacken their boots on
Sunday morning, yet they do not
hesitate to black their neighbor’s
reputation on week-days.—[Beecher.
• • • • TME
These are troublous times. The
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trouble is everywhere: in politics, N e w
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in the social system, in religion.
But the storm centre seems to be A. A. A R M S T R O N G , P R O P .
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in the region of religion. The fun­
damental beliefs on which our
social system has partly rested are
Six Tracts to Promote
giving way. To replace them be­
fore the edifice falls, and at the
same time to gain such knowledge
as may he attainable of man’s es­
tate and destiny, thought must be
entirely free.—[Goldwin Smith.
In Place of C h ristia n ity :
S cie n tific
W isd o m
One good man and a kind man
said that he believed in the Devil,
an actual, living, personal Devil,
who was attending to business; and
that all the evidence that he need
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1 Can Sins be Forgiven?
2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil­
ization?
3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable?
4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions.
Does Belief
in Miracles
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- - Benefit?
id to c o n v in c e h im of th e e x is te n c e 6 Immortality or Annihilation?
»f this devil was furnished by my
life and my lectures. He undoubt-
pdly was a good man; and when I
read these sermons and these au-
swers, in spite of myself there came
into my mind a line from Heinrich
Heine: “Christ rode an ass, but
now asses ride on Christ.—[Inger­
soll.
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