THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MARCH 8, 1900. 6 Creator we have Infinite Space; and says, “They are all nothing everything as the gift, power and against the facts of the world!” function of the “gods,” which are Should such a “monster” live? the powers of Nature in Lucretius, All logical, orthodox Christianity, and the “Elohim” in the first verse j then and now, shouts, “No! Out of Genesis,shamefully mistranslated of the world with him, Let fire be our love to him! Hell is too “ God?’ 2. Instead of the supiemacy of good for him! Faith as the criterion over every­ We might, but it is not neces­ thing, we learn that the “habit of sary to go farther, to show that the believing is the chief impediment daily revolution of the earth on its to Knowledge.” Then comes the axis and its annual circuit around terrible stroke, “Coelos non esse!” the sun revealed substantially a “Heaven, the Heavens are not! ’ new Heaven and a new Earth—a The most terrible words ever reversed environment; consequent­ ly there must be a complete re­ spoken! 3. All of the struggles and oh-( versal of human affairs and a con- S p rin g of 1 9 0 0 a isU pan d C om ing Uur Big Shipment of Spring Shoes has Arrived. Tan Shoes will be the Correct Style for Spring Wear. See our Assort­ ment in B A B iE S * C H IL D R E N ’S M IS S E S ’ L A D IE S ’ — = G ENTS’ At Silverton’s Largest and Busiest Store. D reyer & C raig. ject of every life had been to get to sequent N ew E ra of Science and of STRICTLY ONE PRICE PRODUCE TAKEN H eaven . Christ had died, and the Man, an era of adaptation to the Church had been built up, to en­ reversed world, with a new Life and able mankind to get there as the a new Hope. final end, hope, reward, happiness N ote the D ifference : Prior to and glory of all existence! What A. D. 1600, the Home of the Human could be more terrible than for this Race, of M an , had been the Bruno, as the voice of Science, to Earth, ever a Stationary Dwelling TORCH OF REASON declare, ‘C oelos non esse . I here j j Ouse! Its surface-was “the Liv- are no Heavens, ’ no firmaments, jng Floor of active life and proba- ceilings, celestial spheres or abodes ^j0l, The life of each individual at all. All of your God, Heaven, wag entjjegs At death, if not ap- religion and eternal hopes are proved, the soul went into the first childish dreams existing in an il­ basement of the purgatory hells for lusion of your eyes. No wonder purification by suffering. If not that the man who first so declared purified, to hell he went in the cel­ was burnt as “a monster!” Chris- lar, as Dante and Milton pictures. tianity did it then, and, logically, q^e Redeemed passed to coelestial must and would do the same today mansions, in the third story above had it the power. “the firmament,” to live in glory No. 2. 4. People all believed that the and happiness forever. There the Earth had been created by God Sun and Stars would shed light to and that it would surely have an the said inhabitants which God end; that the heavenly bodies, sun had created on the earth; and there “Truth bears the Torch in the and stars, were made for it and its the Father and Son and Holy search For Truth.” Saints; |and that Christ died for Ghost “lived to govern the human their redemption only. (See White, world below, and ever increase the above quoted. Vol. 1, pp. 116- myriads of Saints and Angels, or 117, etc.) What shall be done victims, to augment their glory!” with this man who said, “It is S IL V E R T O N , O REG O N: When Bruno brought forward L IB E R A L U N IV E R S IT Y P R E SS against sense and reason to say the new Astronomy, “the laudable 1899 that there is a limit to the world; sense and meaning of Nicholas Co­ the world always was and will be, pernicus,” F V iiliV U U ) U liu f |_F I 1 VI I V it V'" lJ lO and applied to v this PRICE TEN CENTS. and if there is any Holy Ghost it o]d three.9tory Dwelling House is the ‘World-Soul,’ for God and of man—this Cosmogony of Chris- Nature agree in all—are one!” tianity—then all of its dogmas, “Burn him,” said Christianity creeds, doctrines, revelations, dis- then, and now, as far as it can—for cipiines motives, rewards and it must! hopes, were fated io dioappear Our Job D e p a rtm e n t 5. Christ descended from Adam like “the baseless fabric of a -ALWAYS GIVES and Eve and died to save all men dream,” for such it was only neces- as his brothers, likewise so de- sary to think, to see at once that scended, said Christianity. “No,” they were! “Coelum non fuit”— said Bruno; “the Jews may have Heaven never was; never will be! been descended from their Adam, Would then we were never born! -BECAUSE IT GIVES---- but all of the other peoples were Such waq fhp nannGpH nrv il.at not. And there are eo’untlessother u’p“ thT h X t - H° NE5T ST° CK’ F' NEST ' NK AN° EXCELLENT WORKflANSHIP se S o n g : w B ook . S a tisfa c tio n suns and worlds in space which 8uch will be its cry until it learns probably have people on their to live in the “New Heaven and planets perfectly ignorant of any Earth,” the New Environment. “ LIVE Q U ESTIO N S” 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE ■ V , , . v , ,, The Science of today is the re- E X -G O V . J O H N P . A L T G E L D . theologians, then and now, could ve„ e of the 0,d ft8tron co8. only logically say, “ Burn.ng is too mology> phygics> chemjg(ry 1)io]ogy A B o o k for t h e P e o p le goo or him. 6. Then, if there was anything to and in which the people trusted their all, it was their personal Creator, caring for and governing each and all by special providence, even “to the hairs of every head.” Then there was his Christ and his Church and the holy, infallible Scriptures! And this Bruno comes T A IN S A L L T H E F A M O U S S P E E C H E S , L E T T E R S , and sociology, or the history and 0 O N M ---- - OF - T H ----------- E S S — A G E S -------- ANO ESSA YS E AUTHOR. E V E R Y IS S U E OF N A T IO N A L IM P O R T A N C E ANO evolution of mankind. As the re- P O P U L A R IN T E R E S T E A R N E S ,“PO "T*"C' T L Y C O N S IO C R E O . suit of all these the individual who _ _ overnment _ T r u _ s t s . 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