THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JULY 27. 1H9-J.
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For the Torch of Reason.
The ways of peace and happiness
The W ar God’s Method.
were open to him.
And the end is not yet. The Rev.
BY MRS. M. M. T U R N ER .
Mr. \\ right, who might have been
“There came out a fire from the a thorough worker in the dungeons
Lord and consumed 250 men.” of the inquisition (one of God’s
“ Now they that died in the plague method«), says further, “I believe
were 14,700.” “The Lord sent fiery there is yet a mission for the gun.
serpents among the people, and . . The Christian world has vet
they bit the people, and much peo­ to reckon with Turkey. . . There
ple of Israel died.” “The Lord thy is ground to believe that l»efore we
God wili send the hornet among have universal peace, we shall have
them, until they that are left . . . almost universal war, and that God
be destroyed.” “And all the men will so move the armies on the
checker-board of the world’s
shall stone him with stones that he i great
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die.” “ I will also send the teeth of hl8torv’ that when th* struggle is
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beasts upon them, with poison of over the Anglo-Saxon race shall
T H E O NLY S C H O O L
serpents of the dust.” “The Lord dominate the world, and Christ’s
cast down great stones from heaven religion shall be supreme and save
OF T H E K IN D .
it.”
upon them.” “The sun stood still,
God’s method of war has put its
and the moon stayed, until the
people had avenged themselves blood and agony-stained stamp
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upon their enemies.” “The Lord upon every period of human life.
For
nearly
2,000
years
the
Christian
make thee a curse and an oath
among thy people, when the Lord religion has afflicted the world.
Yet it is not saved! Theologians
doth make thy thigh to rot, etc.”
The Jews had to get possession still proclaim the “curse and wrath
of the laud promised
to them
them by
by
an<^
trooping of un-
aised to
♦
firwi /„a
possession to
their
God
(as a „ possession
to be 8a^e ®ou^8 hell.
Children are now even taught to
held forever), by conquest, bv wars
almost of extermination. “Smite ' sing in the Sunday Schools:
j “ Far, far away, in heathen darkness
every male with the edge
„ of the i
dwelling,
sword.” “Thou shalt save alive Millions of souls may be forever lost.”
nothing that breatheth.” “Thou
The Rev. Mr. Wright seems to be
shalt utterly destroy them.” “And unconsc*°U8 of the work of science,
Joshua did unto them as the Lord
Proved and verified know-
hade him, he houghed their horses ^ei^ e
uniform laws of the
and burnt their chariots with fire.” UDiver8e> which is, in itself, virtue,
“Kill every male among the little destined to do away with theo-
Pupils are Given Every O p p o rtu n ity to Learn
ones, and ail the women; . . but
factions and superstition; to
all the virgins keep alive for your- Pur^y» organize, and unite the
W ithout Being H am pered by S u p ersti­
selves.” “The Lord delivered the ^amhies °f the earth; and by the
tio n s and Dogmas.
Canaanites and the Perrizzites into terribly destructive weapons the
their hands and they slew 10,000.” knowledge of the laws of nature
“Cursed be he that keepeth back enable her to make, to put a stop to
his sword from blood.”
war—the cruel murder of man by
Having been theologically trained ^’8 brother man.
The “God explosion,” with his
in his youth, and believing that the
above quotations from the Bible are servant the cannon, will prove to
the works and commands of God, be the strongest allies of peace.
In times of peace, reason and
it is not to be wondered at that the
Rev. R. L. Wright, in a sermon knowledge flourish and build up
preached in Baltimore, Md., in moral and physical strength, so
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June, 1899, should say, “God has that man can face the universe and
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iu every age of the world used war redeem himself; while faitb, in the
as one of his sterner methods for unproved, sneaks away and hides
itself in the ignorance from whence
the advancement of his cause.”
it came.
“ God do move in a misterious way
His wonders to perform.”
The doctrine of development has
hs the old darkey quoted.
come to he the scientific view of
Theologians claim that this God life. The more that view is brought
is omniscient and omnipotent. That home to the mass, the stronger will
he called into being, by word of be the foundations of the state, and
mouth and out of nothing, the num­ the more rapidly and happily will
A Splendid Corps of Teachers and Good Facil-
berless suns “that strew the field of the stages which separate us from • A A
night,” vast nebulous masses, a condition of perfect social health
ities for Teaching. F or inform ation,
comets and swarming meteors. he accomplished.
address
That he peopled the earth with its
various nations. Being responsible
Disorders, physical and moral;
to nothing, his will is the sole ard the decay of our organs, and, con­
J. E. H O S M E R , Ph. D., B. S. D.,
arbitrary law of the mighty forces sequently, that of our intellect; the $
of the universe. Residing in the necessity of death, in order that the
imperceptible portion of that eternal
blissful home he made for himself, principle
which composed our being
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with the angels “he created to adore should revert to the general mass, Mz
and enjoy him,” he has, through and be added to the means of sus­
all the ages, century alter century, taining the succeeding generation of
used bloody, cruel horrid war, re­ conformations; the slow but sure VA SILVERTON.
reunion of our remains with the
plete with human sufferings of body mouldering
crust of ruins which1
and mind, at his own whim and covers the surface of the earth—are !
caprice, “to advance his cause. t t these signs of immortality?—[Ex. 1
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