5 T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, S E PT E M B E R 2S, IS»». M issionary W ork. For d ista n t woes, w ith seas betw een, Ye have a generous word, VVhile'want wails at your door, And m isery goes on unheard. W hile an elegant and beautiful woman, made up of all the chief constituents of true nobility, was devoting her efforts to the securing of funds for the preaching of the holy religion to the heathen, asked “ John R andolph of R oanoke’’ to contribute. He beckoned the lady to a window and said: “ M a d a m , here! The heathens at our door,” poijiting to a p arty of half naked negroes of her own belonging in her own yard. T hus it is we find around us everywhere the heathen at our own door. The average A m erican has very little idea as to how this heathen fund, collected in this country and in E ngland and sent over to h e a th en lands, is spent, and as to who gets the benefit of it, and lor telling it, as I have seen it with my own eves and know’ it with my own knowledge, I have no doubt th at m any who will read this article, as well as many who will hear it read, will rise up to say all m anner of had things of and about me, and m ay even intim ate th at I am not as good a C hristian as was the man who threw’ a button in the m issionary collection box. Now, let me have it my own way and then you m ay have yours af terw ard in the say, but do not con demn me unless you find out by in vestigation th a t I have told you other than the tru th . M any years ago—and today, too, for it is over and over the same thing ever since the game started — an old dom inie had several boys and girls, but no wealth or proper- ty to endow them with, and he con cluded to m ake the heathen lands a basis for his operations. He commenced talk ing to his parishioners about the poor h ea th en and how they were dying and languishing in ignorance and sin, and finally going to hell for the w ant of the holy C hristian religion as was tau g h t them there at home. A few eloquent talks brought in, through the contribution box for m issionary purposes, large sum» of money, and through tire goodness <»f souls, noble, pure, generous, un selfish,-the wealth kept rolling in, and the dom inie’s children were all well provided in different posts scattered in different islands as chiefs of the m issionary stations, and the descendants of this dom i nie have all lavished in a wealth th at kings and princes of the past would envy. “ They toil not, neither do they spin,” but, like the lily of the field, they are beautiful to behold when they, like a bird of passage, come to the land of their dom inie’s a n cestry and tell of the great good they are doing, when, in fact, they are doing no good at all. They m ake no C hristians. T he man or w om an who supposes there was ever a heathen converted to C hris tia n ity genuinely and truly, who t o did not return to the belief of his t o fathers the m om ent bis name was stricken from the pay roll as an a t t o tache to the mission, is too big a t o fool to have much money to give to the cause anyw ay and is safe from the future,, solely from the decree of Divine Providence th a t no one t o shall be held accountable for th a t which was not given him , i. e., t o brains. t o “ C hristianity! C hristianity! Oh! w hat crim es are com m itted in thy t o holy name! I have often exclaim t o ed when I have seen wolves in J sheep’s clothing leading flocks of i t o lam bs astray in the wilderness th a t i t o they m ight feast on them at leisure, j It is m an ’s in h u m an ity to man! t o th a t has made countless m illions, t o m ourn, and often have I thought of j A grippa saying: “ Paul, thou a rt be-j t o side thyself; m uch learning makes! t o thee m ad.” Ask you what at, and my reply will he: “ At the vile, t o double decked, double dyed, deep, t o unfathom able, cruel, heartless, wicked hypocrisy practiced on the t o people by the robed, gowned, cleric, t o who alw ays passes the hat around before he preaches, save and except t o when he comes to preaching mis t o sionary sermons, the expert and t o drilled scholar in which can bring tears from colder stones than dia t o nionds and cash galore from every t o purse, even from th a t of the miser, when th a t preacher is through t o painting pictures of suffering and t o depravity and the hell hound cer ta in ty of the poor heathen he may t o be talk in g of and about, and lying t o about, in order to get m o n e y in m any cases to spend in a bagnio t o bungalow, telling his companions t o and associates, his equals and his like, how he fooled th e guys at home. Oh! where is thy w andering boy to n ig h t?— [A m erican Home. • V LIBERAL t t o UNIVERSITY THE T he above, from a C hristian standpoint, ought to make C hrist ians think if such a thing is pos sible.—[ E d . Secularists would you not like to have some letterheads printed with Secular sentim ent and W ettstein ’s F reethought badge, to use in corre spondence with your friends? We will furnish them to you with your nam e and address printed on them for 75 cents per hundred, 11.50 for 250, or $2.50 for 500, post paid. Let the people know where vou stand. O NLY S C H O O L OF T H E t o t o K IN D t o F a c u l t y — i S qq - ’ o o . t o J. E. HQSMER, l li. D., B. S. I)., P resident , Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Psychology. A . A. LEONARD, M. D„ M. E. * t o t o S u p e rin te n d en t D epartm ent of Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene, Electricity, M icroscopy. THADDEUS B. 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