5 T H E TORCH OF REA SO N , SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, N OV EM BER 2, 1899. still going on; b u t am ong our own sam ples of C hristian S unday school dear Caucassian people these hea and church m orality. T u rn e r is a l'he thenish ways of argum ent are rap id C hristian-dom inated place. ly going, never to re tu rn ; and we money value of these petty pilfer have the glorious privilege of seek ing» is ‘n il’, but th eir m oral value ing out all the tru th we can. A es, is considerable, as showing th a t we are urged to do so; and what C hristianity is not a moral force. astonishing strides we have m ade The C hristian S unday school pupils since, in our own d ear Am erica— are, as a rule, much more inclined the land of the free and the home to be saucy, illm annered, foul-spok of the brave— in our own dear Col en and pilfering th an those of I n um bia—the gem of the ocean, those fidels. But this is not to be wondered at great F reethinkers, W ashington, P aine, Jefferson an d Adam s formed when statistics show th a t C hristian our great R epublic on the p rin ci priests and preachers are the most liable to crim inal acts of any class ples of Secularism . W e m ust look at things in a of people in civilization; and th a t broad, clear light. We m ust study their crimes are alm ost all directed and th in k as those brave men did, to stealing from the helpless, or com m itted with, or against women, or, in th is w onderful age of scien seldom, if ever, com m itting crimes tific tru th and progress, we will be which require nerve, and grit and nothing but derelicts on the great ocean of life. We owe the liberty daring. I have also observed, th a t in we have now to brave men who C hristian persecution of the Infidel, dared, in the face of opposition, to it is alm ost in v ariab ly the tim id or stu d y , and work and fight for the prosperity of th eir posterity; and helpless ag ain st whom their rancor we could not have had a Liberal and spiteful acts are directed. The fighter, who is able and dis U niversity if they had not thus posed to pay them back in their toiled for tru th , and love and lib erty . Let us then do our p a rt and own coin or otherwise, is left sev erely alone. The feeble and help do it well; be happy in th u s doing, an d live forever by our good words less is the prey which they are hu n tin g for. Any person who is and works in the ea rth ly paradise well posted and has courage and is th a t will surely come! apt to argue, the C hristian steers clear of. And so all along the line For the Torch of Beason. it is: “ Resist th e (C h ristian ) devil Sunday School Horality. and he will flee from you.” A very sm all, but vigorous Secu BY F. S. MATTESON. lar organization in a place can modify C hristian ch u rch an ity won Straw s show which way the wind blows, and little episodes illustrate derfully. T urner, Ore. the fruits of certain theories and teachings. For the Torch of Reason. There is in this place an old lady Petty Religious Spite-work. who, though unable to do much work, takes considerable pains to BY EMMA B. LEE. raise a few flowers. She has alw ays been very liberal w ith her flowers, I tau g h t school this sum m er, two giving them with a generous hand miles from h o m e and a few steps and kindly feeling. Now it is late in from a country church. Of course the season and she has but a very there had to be a protracted meet few left. Some choice ever-bloom ing at th a t church during the term ing roses stood near the fence, and of school. There was preaching while m any persons stopped to ad every day a t 11 a. m. and at night mire them , they rem ained un for about two weeks. Well, I made touched. up my m ind at the beginning o Y esterday two schoolgirls came the m eetings th a t I would attend to along—the elder about fifteen, tall my work and let the preacher do and well grown, a S unday school his work. pupil and a member of the M. E. In a few days after the meeting church. She leaned over the fence began, however, two of the patrons and gathered ail the roses w ithin came to the school-house about reach. T he younger girl, looking church tim e and said to me, in u p at the window and seeing th at quite a sharp tone, “ We w ant our they were observed, spoke in a low children to go to cnurcb.” I said, tone to her com panion an d they “ All rig h t,” and complied with their scudded away like scared rabbits, com m and. Some of the other p a and the last au tu m n roses, in which trons requested me not to perm it the feeble old woman had taken their children to go to church, be pride and pleasure, went to adorn cause of the whooping-cough and the person of a young and physic measles prevalent at th a t tim e; con ally vigorous M ethodist girl, who sequently, every day a t church by her actions showed th a t she felt tim e, I excused those children herself to be a petty thief. whose p aren ts wished them to go to And of such is the (C h ristia n ) church, and continued to teach kingdom of heaven. those rem aining. One o f j h e pa- T»Ç LIBERAL UNIVERSITY OREGON. 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