OF R eason . •TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH.” - £ wcreZÎM S. VOL. SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 24, E. M. 3CO (A. D. 1900.) NO. 20. Reason. which m ay be found the features F aith can flourish and trium ph and lineam ents of the national lift. only where Ignorance is cultivated Abolition of Revealed Religions. * oy to th e w orld ! th e light is come, I appeal to those who know the as a virtue. Clothe yourself with T he oniy law ful k in g ; BY HERBERT JUNIUS HARDW ICKE, M.D. L et every h e a rt p rep are it room , ( lassies best; and I m ake bold to prejudice as with a garm ent, and And m oral n a tu re sing. ask the m an who is deeply learned a rra y yourself in bigotry as with / he am ount of money th a t is Joy to th e earth ! Now reason reigns; »n Latin and who is a m aster of raim ent, and obstinately refuse to Let m en th e ir songs em ploy; an n u ally spent in the sup investigate and to judge, and you W hile fields and floods, rocks, h ills, and English, if he ever in all his life port of priests and o th er plains, ^aw a rendering out of the one m ay oe able to believe th a t the R epeat th e sounding joy. Bible is the infallible word of God. m inisters of the various religious language into the other which was, — [God and H is Book. bodies throughout the world is tr u No m ore let su p erstitio n grow, in all respects, satisfactory. This No th o rn s infest th e ground ; ly appalling. In great B ritain an d This lig h t will m ake its blessings flow can be predicted of L atin , a la n A First Cause. Ireland alone nearly eleven m il To e a r th ’s rem otest bound. guage known by thousands and —[Selected. lions of money is expended each well known by tens. Then what of BY JOHN STUART MILL. year in the support of the clergy, this sh ep h erd ’s jargon, Hebrew, whose sole occupation consists in A Specimen from the W ritin gs of th a t, properly speaking, in its w rit he argum ent fo ra F irst Cause j : conducting the religious services of the Holy Ghost. ten form, seems never to have been adm its of being, and is pre the various churches, and, if they a language a t all, but only a num sented as a conclusion from feel so disposed, visiting the sick; ust to give the E nglish reader ber of clum sy and ungainly scrawls, the whole of hum an experience. their incomes being derived m ostly some faint idea o f the infinite intended to assist the memory of a E verything th a t we know (it is from the overburdened people, who and tender mercies of J e rude and all but illiterate people? I argued) had a cause, and owed its are the dupes of th eir in sin u atin g hovah in sending his own Ghost, It is clear to the m eanest cap- j existence to th a t cause. How then subtlety. in whom he was well pleased, to acity th a t the G host wrote in a can it be but th a t the world which How long will this condition of write a Bible, I will quote here the language which was no language, is but a nam e for the aggregate of first seven verses of Genesis in H e but in an indefinite jargon of which all th a t we know, has a cause to things last? How long will m an brew, using, however, the Rom an the unlearned know nothing, and which it is indebted for its exist- continue to be oppressed by the a r rogance and greed of the church on characters:— which no two learned hum an beings 1 ence? the one hand, and the ty ran n y of B R A SH Y T H B R A A L H Y M A T H tran slate the sam e way. And yet | The fact of experience however. despotic rulers on the other? How I rs IIM Y M V A TH H A RT SH A R TN this Scripture is “ the very word of when correctly expressed, tu rn s SH Y T H H T H H V V B H V V C H S H K very G od,” an d we have to believe out to be, not th a t everything long will darkness and superstition reign, and light and intelligence be G N LPN YT H H V M V R VCH A L H Y in it under the penalty of being! * H ch we know derives its exist M M RC H P H T H G N L P N Y H M YM stifled? Not one m om ent longer dam ned. For this and all his other I ence from a cause, but only every VYAM RALHYM YHYAVRVYH than the united will of the people Y A V R V Y R A A LH Y M A TH H A V R tender mercies, glory be to God in [event or change. There is in Na- allow it to continue. Once let the KYTVBVYB R LA LH Y M B Y N H A the highest! tu re a p erm anent elem ent, and voice of the people be raised in u n V R V B Y N H C H SH K V Y K R A A L H All th a t is sweet and b e a u tifu l! also a changeable: the changes are ison, and their voice will be law. V M L A V R Y Y M V L C H SH K K R A L Y L H V Y H Y N G R B V Y H Y B K R Y V and elevating in life is due to ¡alw ays th e effects of previous Man is superior to his fellows o n E very preacher I changes; the perm anent existences, MACH DVYA M R A L H Y M Y IIY R C hristianity. ly so far as his moral worth and K Y G N B TH R K H M Y M V Y H Y M B whines th a t and every baby knows! so far as we know, are not effects at intelligence are of a higher order; DYLBYNM YM LM YM VYGNSHA it. But for the creed of the man- all. Tt is true we are accustomed lhymathhrkygnvybdlby ger, our deportm ent would be th a t ’ to say not only of events, but of despotic rulers, h ered itary legislat ors, all superstitious in stitu tio n s nhmymashrmtchthlrkyg of bears and our m orals th a t of objects, th a t they are produced by N V B Y N H M Y M A S H R M G N L L R K and other organs of slavery being goats— vestality would he nowhere causes, as water by the union of ygnvyhykn . repugnant to the purposes of m a n ’s and bestiality everywhere. hydrogen and oxygen. B ut by this existence, and calculated u tterly to it was so considerate of Jehovah We are, of course, stiff-necked; j we only m ean th a t when they be- dem oralize the race,whose m em bers io send his Ghost to to furnish us we have gone away backw ard, and gin to exist, their beginning is the should co-operate with each other, with the foregoing beautiful sen have all deserved “God’s wrath effect of a cause. B ut th e ir begin* and devise m eans for the common tences! The only thing to be re and curse, both in this life and th a t ning to exist is not an object, it is welfare. gretted is th at, since he sent the which is to come ” But a really an event. If it be objected th at The only way of arriv in g a t a n y Ghost to write them , he did not effective g o sp e l-g rin d e r, s ta n d in g c a u se of a th in g ’s beginning to thing like a perfectly m oral and come down him self to tran slate up on his hind-legs in a ranting- " ’’J "?ay be Ra’d propriety them. But his ways are not as our . v „ • u i i to b<? the cause of the thing itself, prosperous condition of the com box «ell varnished, and telling us I sh a || not q llarrel with the e x ’ m unity is by abolishing once for all ways (for which Jet us be tru ly forever and forever how Jehovah pression. But th a t which in an every so-called revealed religion, thankful), and he has vouchsafed kicked Adam out of Paradise for object begins to exist, is th a t in it unto us a composition w ithout be eating an apple, and how Je h o v a h ’s which belongs to th e changeable and educating the m asses, so as to raise them from the condition of ginning of words or end of sen son, who was at the same time J e elem ent in n ature; the outw ard form and the properties depending abject m ental slavery in to which tences, for which blessed be his hovah’s self, got nailed to a stick, on m echanical or chem ical com bin- they have sunk under th e baneful h y name. As far hack as the is sufficient to _ keep us pure and . . r __ r — ---- ations of its com ponent parts. There influence of priestcraft, and to teach flays of N ehem iah, as we have seen, holy and divorced from the world, >R in every object an o th er and a very Jews them selves do not the flesh, and the devil. If we onlv Pe rm anent elem ent, viz., the specific each one to respect th e d ig n ity of his nature, and his moral obliga 3eem to have been able to m ake genuflect properly and how] e' Pmp? ta ly subatBnce or substances tions. head or tail of the language in “ Am en,” one professional gospel h e rX ‘t .‘r ^ n ' e ^ ^ T h ^ e ' h: i r ,in,' '*'?., * * this lh i’ desirable end i( To £ effect it "hich the Ghost had w ritten, and g r.n d e rw .il be sufficient to “ save” known to us as beginning to exist: en t mode of conducting religious 1 y the learned rabbis, who, on about <00 of us from being pickled w ithin the range of hum an know- exercises should undergo a radical subject, peradventure, knew in brim stone, and from being gnaw- they had no beginning, con- m odification; and instead of the ' ’ r- little more th an the vulgar, ed by a worm of considerable ‘Tq ’, e n t n o caU8e5 though they old m ythological doctrines of heav- „ .. , .. , . tnemselves are causes or con-causes en, hell, the devil the trinnp i • tended to tran slate and expound. , length, and I which no vertn.n- 0, everyth!, th a , , ake6 plac(, R x. Strictly speaking, no one lan- p >»di r m il destroy. perience, therefore, affords no evi- preached from th e pulpit and gnage can be tran slated into any If you are determ ined to believe dences, not even analogies, to ju stify tau g h t ir. the cottage, an elevating "ther. A language itf not merely in the Scriptures, leave their history our ex t«nding to the ap p a ren tly hum anism should be proclaim ed au iries as o h o w t they h e v ; i T " , ,le’a generalization ground- ground- and the n a tu ra l ______________ revelations of the a vocabulary of verbal counters and and all all in inquiries as t to how M generalization _ originated and how they have c a n g lah e t . “ n Z " and Un,0,ded to ' h their exact equivalents in oth- , , ' , j changeable.— [ J hree Essays on Re- the m u ltitu d e.—[The P opular F aith er languages; it is a m atrix in . been preserved, severely alone, ligion. ■ Uu veiled L * rra itn T J