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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1899)
5 T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, JU LY 13, 1899. (for tilt1 T orch o f Reason. Object Lessons. by C H A R L E S K E N T T E N N E Y . of prayers have an n u ally gone up from the pulpit and the home, from the streets, and even from the sa loons, for the reform ation of some lost one. T he pathetic appeals of the heart-broken m other, sister and d au g h ter for the reform ation W of . .1. UOUglHC V..C .ViVUUH.U-M, husband, son, or brother, ought to melt the heart of a stone, yet God fails to respond. T ally an o th er for the efficacy of prayer. Our city contains quite a large German population, and one of its societies owns a beautiful park, bordering on one of our lakes. In the sum m er tim e th is park if used for picnic purposes, and on S unday afternoons h u n d red s of our work ing people, who have no other tim e, O ur Congress passes a bill for the with th eir wives, children, and abolition of the canteen in the sweethearts, assemble there to en arm y. The P resident refers the joy Sts quiet shades and refreshing m atter to th e A ttorney-G eneral, and air. It is an afternoon of sim ple, he holds the law to be inoperative. quiet, orderly enjoym ent to these The en tire clergy of the country people and their families, and call upon the Lord to over-ride the speaks volumes for the forethought A ttorney-G eneral, and to guide the of the society in providing such a President in the lig h t. So far beautiful retreat, where our people these prayers have b e e n ineffectual, may, for a short tim e a t least, get and we fear we m ust tally another away from th e ir cares and busy for the devil. haunts of the city. C ertainly these people should he co n gratulated for There once lived on a farm , near having such a beautiful place in the village, a noble, kind-hearted which to spend an afternoon, and girl. She had been brought up by most persons would encourage her parents, under strict church them in it. None of them , up to discipline, and was a firm, con last Sunday, ever supposed th a t scientious believer. Near by lived for this little enjoym ent and com a country lad of equally good and fort they were in cu rring the divine generous ways. He, too, had been wrath and sending them selves and brought up in the sam e C hristian families to everlasting hell. Such faith. In time the friendship of desecration m ust, of course, be these children ripened into perfect stopped; and as the authorities love, and they were m arried. In would not interfere, four of the their new relation they became still faithful, upon whose shoulders more active m embers in tin church, alone rested the entire responsi and active p aiticip an ts in all bility tor the three or four thousand prayer m eetings. In tim e five little souls assembled there, took th em ones came to still more brighten selves to these grounds, and upon th eir already happy home; and their bended knees, began long and ranged in tg e from one to twelve pathetic appeals to the A lm ighty to years. The older ones were regu- disperse th is gathering of happy, lar a tte n d a n ts at the Sunday , innocent people, and send them im School. At this tim e the most mediately to th eir respective homes, dreaded of all diseases, m alignant there to ask forgiveness for the u n d ip h th eria, entered this happy pardonable sin of seeking recreation home, an d , despite the most frantic and fresh air for them selves » "d I Qf djstracted mother) families. 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