THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 31, ISbU.
For the Torch of Reason.
L ittle T orch es.
BY W. E. JOHNSON.
Satan was unable to sinite Job
till the Lord had spoken the wn 1
of consent.— [Nashville Christian
Advocate.
That’s just like your God—goes
in cahoots with a brigand to lie in
wait for a friend. What a nice,
amiable God he must be.
The principle behind it all may
lie embodied in an essay on fools.
There are three kinds of fools. The
fifst fool is the fool that says there
is no God. The second fool says it
is impossible to know whether there
is a God or not. The third fool
says he has no need of a God, and
doesn’t care materially whether
there is a God or not.—[Rev. B. F.
DeCosta, D. D., in his sermou in
New York City.
You left out one breed: there is
the fool who admits he is a fool and
of no account save through the
merits of a Jew who was murdered
2,000 years ago. This fool knows
there is a god because no one but a
god could make such a foolish fool
as he is.
Nail God to his promises. Look
for promises for soul-saving, put
your finger on them and say, “Now
Lord, you have promised to do so
and so, now you are going to do
it.”—[Toronto War Cry.
If you must have a god, why
don’t you select one who will live
up to his agreements like an honest
man, and without having to “nail
him to his promises.” As Colonel
Ingersoll said, “An honest god is
the noblest work of man.”
There is no other such love as
God’s redeeming love for sinful, un
godly men. — [Western Christiau
Advocate.
Yes, God so loved the world that
he built a bottomless pit, a sort of
an eternal base-burner, in which to
forever torture the children of men.
He loves in just the way that the
wolf loves mutton.
Those who honor God shall be
honored, and those who despise
him shall be lightly esteemed.—
[Christian Conservator.
So the “you tickle me and I’ll
tickle you” principle applies to sal
vation, does it? Your God seems
to be like an Oriental nabob who
can be “worked” best by flattering
his vanity.
Torch of Reason, and very bright
its light is. It is conducted in the
interest of “ Moral Secularism”, the
first foreign paper in which I ever
met the phrase. One of its mottoes
is from Wordsworth, which Sir
Rickard Tangye might have prefix
ed to the little book which I men
tioned last month, “The Greatness
of Little Things”.
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Of friends, how ever hum ble, scorn n o t ,
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both sides was there an absence of
positive proof and know ledge. Some
made out a strong affirmative
hypothetical case by other utteran-
cee of a similar character. For ex
ample, one correspondent cited that
Mr. Ingersoll prayed on the capitol
steps, “God save the nation,” dur
ing the crisis in the country when
President Garfield was assassinat
ed. Others pointed to Mr. Inger
soll’s oft repeated doubts as to the
existence of soul and God, a God
such as he was said to have prayed
to for mercy for his soul. From
Walston, Dobbs’s Ferry-on-Hud
son, comes the following:
To the Editor of the Times Star:
There seems to be a dispute in
the columns of the Times-Star as to
whether Col. Ingersoll made use of
the fi»llowing words in his address
at the bier of his brother: “If I
have taught you wrong may God
have mercy upon my soul.” In
behalf of his family I wish to say
that not one word, more or less,was
uttered by Col. Ingersoll on that
occasion than what is contained in
the printed version. I also wish to
state as his publisher that he has
never received one farthing from
the sales of his hooks. This was
given to others.
Injustice to the dead I hope you
will publish this leiter. Yours
truly,
C. P. F arrell .
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pression does not appear in the
For thirty years I published a printed version.—[Times-Star.
iiurnal under the title of “The
Leasoner”, a name then held as
Difficulties are always mountains
omewhat eccentric, as reasoning till we meet them, and mole-hills
bout things was not thought good when we have passed them.
usiness. The Rev. Dr. Rylance, a
One by one the great thinkers of
¡hurch of England clergyman, now the world are giving up the dog
f New York celebrity, published a mas and superslitions of the past.
uurnal in reply to mine entitled
How much trouble he avoids who
he “Christian Reasoner”. Now does no look to see what his neigh
easoning has become a fashion, if bor says, or does, or thinks, hut
iot a habit. I almost weekly re only to what he does himself, that
vive from Silverton, in Oregon, the it may be just and pure!
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