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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, DECEMBER 14, 1899.
tion of Church and State. That of it, with emphasis on the clauses
The first thing, then, to be con - philosophical antiquarian. But as
was a great step towards liberty jni relevant to us:
^^sidered about this festival is, that it the new Era of Man came in with
England when Robert Brown (1550-A ’’Brethren—We are now quicklyHHs an attempt to cultivate, en- the new astronomy of 1600, certain
1630) discovered that a church need to part from one another, and large, discipline and enjoy the it is that the bounties remain , and
not be a part of the State, but whether I may ever live to see your aroused affections. In short, it was thus break forth healthfully the
might, and should be, independent faces on earth any more, the God of an attempt to raise a crop of joy by consequent “joy and gladness,
or, better, separated from it. Thence heaven only knows, but, whether farming the emotions! Now was thanksgiving and voice of melody.”
But will the prayer remain? And
arose the “Independents,” of which the Lord has appointed that or no, this a scientific, practical and sen
to whom will the “peace offerings
Milton and Cromwell were leaders, I charge you, before God and his sible thing for them to do?
In answer tothisquestion consider and the joy and melody of thanks­
and who remained Puritans-Protest- blessed angels, that you follow me
ants within the Church and State, no farther than you have seen me the “ text ” of this sermon, which a giving” arise in this heliocentric
But the Pilgrims, the “Separatists’, follow the Lord Jesus Christ. [Now regular “clergy” would have given age of a boundless Cosmos? For
you at the start, but which may be there is no more motionless earth
proper, wholly separated from Humanity.]
Church andState and went and dwelt
“If God reveal anything to you, more to the point now. It is from beneath, nor firmament nor heaven
in Holland for twelve years. But by any other instrument of his, be one of our last, and best books: above; and the gods who dwelt in
not being able to assimilate with the as ready to receive it as ever you Prof. Lester F. Ward’s “Outlines of “heaven,” supposedly, until A. D.
Dutch language and customs, they were to receive any truth by my Sociology” (published by the Mac­ 1600, are gone—and whither? Sci­
determined to emigrate, and left for ministry; for I am verily persuad- millan Co., N. Y., Vol. I., pp. 300.) ence alone can tell. And when we
ask—is not the following diagram
Amejrica at a most untoward season ed, the Lord has more truth yet at page 143, thus:—
x>f the year. They were quite dif­ to break forth out of iiis holy word . “ Intellect, memory, reflection her answer? Must we not farm our
ferent from the Puritans, who want­
For my part, 1 cannot sufficiently and other admittedly remarkable hearts according to the facts, thus?
S cience says : Spirits, ghosts,
ed to reform the Church within the bewail the condition of the reform­ phenomena have been long studied,
State. The Separatists set the ed churches, who are come to a per ­ and a vast amount of speculation spooks, gods, devils — none ! but
fashion of not having the Church iod in religp . and will go at pre­ has been done in those fields. But there is an Infinite Cosmo:, Uni­
and State administered together at sent no „ituer than the instru­ ihe affective side of the mind, in verse or World, of—
r C osmology :—Sun, Earth and
all. They were Congregationalists. ments of their reformation. The which the forces reside, has been
Stars, with activity in all and in
They saw no reason why, if the Lutherans cannot be drawn to go ignored so far as any attempt to
every
atom!
king, queen or parliament changed beyond what Luther saw; whatever understand iis relations to the rest
The Cosmos never changes by
religion over night, that the whole part of his will our God has reveal­ of the mind is concerned. The ap­
whim or caprice, but only by
nation and people of England must ed to Calvin, they will rather die petites, passions and even emotions ,
Immutable Laws of exact
turn over and pretend to believe than embrace it; and the Calvin­ though recognized as having a nec­
and
knowable
correlation.
Prayers to the Cosmos as a
accordingly the next day. The first ists, you see, stick fast where they essary relation to ethics, have not
whole, or to its parts — as a
noted come-outer of this kind was were left by that great man of God, been thought of as an integral part
mountain
or river—are wholly
of mind. They are in fact the ge ­
Robert Brown aforesaid, who after­ who YF.T SAW NOT ALL THINGS.
in vain, and absurd.
netic source of all the other facul­
wards became “reconciled” to the
r BroLOGY: — Microbes, Plants
“Tins is a misery much to be la ­
ties,
the
seat
of
psychic
power,
and
English church; but the Pilgrims mented ; for, though they were
and Animals, with never-ceas­
the
basis
of
any
true
science
of
ing V ital P rocesses of Proto­
and their leading pastor were true burning and shining lights in their
plasm
in all cells and tissues.
to the end about “separation,” and times, yet they penetrated not into mind,” that is to say, of human na­
No animal, not even the An-
disliked to be called Brownists. So the w hole counsel of God, but, were ture and life, either individual, 2<( thropoids,have any conception of
they made a Church without a they now living, they would h.’ as social or political.
Telesis, or reaching ends by in­
This
text,
the
last
word
of
Scien­
bishop in England, and a State willing to embrace further light as
termediate means, and so can
never answer prayers even if
without a king in America, both that which they first received. I tific Sociology on the subject, an­
they were understood. Love
quite popular, as the Dissenters beseech you remember, it is an ar­ swers the question that the time to
protection and care go to ani­
there, and the Republicans here, ticle of your church covenant, that begin the scientific business of
V mals, but never prayers.
heart - farming is at hand.
For
afterwards abundantly proved.
r S ociology : — Man, Woman,
you be ready to receive whatever
until
we
can
get
that
heart-farm
in
Children and H umanity , with
And there seems to be another truth shall be made known to you
ever-active,
vital and telic pre­
order
(to
rights),
so
that
there
will
thing for which we can nevor be from the written word of God. R e ­
vision in each individual and
too grateful to them; they were member that, and every other arti­ be a good crop of feelings and in­
in societies, from year to year,
deeply religious according to the cle of your sacred covenant. But I tentions from it, neither man, wo­ 3<( and age to age.
light of their day and generation, must herewithal exhort you to take man, child nor society , economic or
M an only, can and does ap­
political,
can
ever
evolute
except
as
preciate thanks and can answer
but they believed that more and heed what you receive as truth; ex­
prayer individually and socially,
greater light would come; in a word, amine it, CONSIDER IT , and COMPARE a discord and a free fight. Of
for he is the only T elic B eing .
they wero the religious evolution ­ IT WITH OTHER SCRIPTURES OF TRUTH, course, Science is but the more- V1
A little careful meditation over
ists of their time, and expected to before you receive it; for it is not knowing and exact way of realizing
and
applying
common
sense,
and
this diagram, which gives the scien­
grow—and so they did. For they possible the Christian world should
were the first Separatist-Congrega- come so lately out of such thick this lesson of the need of a concor­ tific view of things, will show the
tionalists, from whence came the antichristian darkness, and that dant “well-wishing” and co-opera­ impossibility of sending up “fer­
Unitarians, whence came theTrans- perfection of knowledge should tive heart is too old to find the be­ vent prayers” to the Universe or
ginning of, and so old are the first Cosmos or World. The emotions
cendentalistsand Universalists,etc., break forth at once.
festivals of joy. When our Pilgrim excited by the infinite world are
whence finally came the L iberals
“I must also advise you to aban­
(emancipated people), who are don, avoid, and shake off the name Fathers looked into their old Tes­ those of awe, wonder, curiosity,
largely the spiritual descendants of of Brownists; it is a mere nick­ tament they found “prayer” and sublimity, etc., etc., known as the
them and of their influences—even name, and a brand for the making “thanksgiving” and “peace offer­ cosmic emotions , which have be­
here and now, in this valley of the of religion, and the professors of it, ings” well instituted and good pre­ come the grandeur of modern Art
cedents at hand for “joy and glad­ in paintings of landscapes and
Willamette. We may decline to |odiou8 ,0 Uie Christian world...
ness, thanksgiving and the voice of cosmic scenes, like Church’s “Nia­
take stock in our President’s “ferv>
Thus on July 1, 1620, about 120 melody” (Is. li.,3.), which is
vent prayers,” but we will not fail
gara,” or Bierstadt’s “Heart of the
in gratitude to these “Separatists” of them started for a new’ home and
O ur . S econd T ext .
Andes,” Moran’s “Views of the
who taught us to keep ou separat­ that higher light and truth which It would be very interesting to ran­ Ocean;”—or in Poetry,like the union
ing in the pursuit of and for greater should break forth out of the sack the past and find how nearly and delight of the human emotion?
light than that of which they ever “written” w’ord—and “such other every people had some harvest fes­ in and with Nature, set forth 60
dreamed—for in all this we have scriptures of truth ” as they could tival of joy and gratitude on the gloriously and rapturously by
been following their injunction compare and consider with it, first, or some month, i. e., moon , Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, and
and example. In proof of this, and whether in the Bible or not.
prior to the winter solstice, and Wordsworth. Now prayer to the
as an act of gratitude, let us listen
Under this injunction we are to how they always had associated whole cosmos of immutable law
cow to the Farewell Address of their compare and consider their festival prayer to some god, as the Jews to would be, and is, just as meaning­
venerable pastor, J ohn R obinson , of “prayer and thanksgiving,” and Yahveh, as the giver of the bounty less and fruitless as if we should
as they embarked at Leyden, Hol­ see what of it has sense and reason they had themselves produced or make our morning prayers to the
land, on their perilous voyage to an for us under all of “the scriptures obtained. But all of these old fes­ Sun and to Mount Hood, the
unknown land. This is the whole of truth”—old and new.
tivals of joy we must leave to the “father and mother” of our Silver