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4 THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 31, 1900. Torch of Reason ations will receive considerable at- , EYE H A T H NOT SE E N NO R E A R ties of Bacchus and Mercury are HEARD. not exquisite. Your citadel of tention, while all the sister church Acrocoriuthus is not strong com The O nly P aper of Its K ind. es will be noticed in some cunning, Dr. Talmage, in his sermon “The pared with that which I offer to the appreciated manner. poorest slave.’ ” P u b lish ed W eekly by th e L iberal U n i Some call this damnable hypo- New Jerusalem,” chooses for his versity Com pany, in the In te re sts of Yes, it was a bold thing for Paul crisy, “business tact”, and claim text the following from Cor. ii. 9: C onstructive, Moral Secularism . “Eye hath not seen uor ear heard, to do and it is a hold, brazen piece that it would be wrong to hazard n e ith e r h a v e e n te re d in to the heart o V „ f -9*1 downright wickedness ♦ info y£> » • . JF k. «\ r * ■ ■"« of m an t h e t hi.nn< wh i< h jod.. bptb for. such »n.en as. D ï ^... fa)mage Jo P. ~vv . û é e f ; ...........M an a g er in g -too biJi-G—rrt-TxpTci^Tng th eir prepared for them that love Him.” draw the minds of the people away opinions or in any way neglecting If this story of the New Jeru from the beauties of life and the E n tered at th e postoffice a t S ilverton, to secure the good will of all their salem was known by its readers to heaven that might he made here, O regon, as second-class I-clf m ail m a tte r. patrons and customers. But we be, like the Arabian Nights, simply to the silly, childish mirage that hold that, while it is not necessary SUBSCRIPTION RATES. for one to he boorish, and while it fiction, it would do no particular indeed “eye hath not seen nor ear is fortunate indeed if one has a nat harm, but this “blessed” doctrine of heard.” The things that are pre O ne year, in a d v an c e ..........................$1 00 a wonderland after death is an pared, or rather brought about by Six m onths, in ad v an ce.................... 50 ural, honest politeness that extends T h re e m onths, in ad v an ce................ 25 alike to friends and foes, this mis awful thing, and if our readers the weakness of superstition, for In clubs of five or m ore, one year, copld but see a picture of the evil it those who learn to love the gods in ad v an ce.......................................... 75 erable policy of policy is not only has produced it would be like a most is simply appalling, and this Money should be sent by registered bad policy, but that, in the long visit to a worse hell than a Talmage Christian idea of worshipping a le tte r or m oney order. run, it defeats its own aim every is capable of painting. foreign monarch in the sky, and time. The beauties of the civilization planning to reside in one of his Notice! Fathers and mothers, your chil that Paul found at Corinth, nicely machine-made mansions has held dren know you, whether you are given by Mr. Talmage, is in part back, and to an unthinkable ex A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes th a t your su bscription has e x p ire d . honest or hypocritical. You Can’t repeated below. He forgets to show, tent destroyed, science, art, com You are earn estly requested to re disguise it! Be honest if you want however, that all this was done merce, good government, love and new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa p e r w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . We have de your children to have good charac without belief in Jesus, and was happiness, and given the world in cided th a t it is best for all concerned ters and to love and respect you in destroyed as every civitization is their stead witchcraft, miracles, th a t we do n o t send papers longer th a n th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. your old age. Merchant, doctor, destroyed by drawing the minds of wars, missionary frauds, divine T his will p rev en t any loss and we will teacher, statesman, he honest or the people away from the beauties rights, selfishness, hate, poverty, know ju st w here we sta n d . We request you to send us th e nam es your downfall is sure. It matters —the beneficial things of this life to crime and misery. of Secularists who m ig h t becom e su b not if you climb for a time—it mat things imaginative. scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, ters not that you are shrewd and “The city of Corinth has been neither have entered into the minds careful, the finale of your life’s song called “the Paris of antiquity.” In of man the things which man could T hursday , M ay 31, E. M. 300 will not be harmonious. For if deed, for splendor the w'orld holds you are selfish, sooner or later your no such wonder today. It stood on prepare for himself if it were not motives will be known by others, an isthmus washed by two seas, the for the priests and their mythical R EA C TIO N OF POLICY. and all along you know that you one sea bringing the commerce of gods. All men make mistakes, and are a fraud, and your defeat is cer Europe, the other sea bringing the of Asia. The mirth of there are those whose whole lives tain. The wealth or plaudits you commerce P R IE S T -F O R B ID D E N F R U IT . all people sported in her isthmian seem to be huge blunders. But may win by deceit are dearly pur games, and the beauty of all lands there is no mistake made in being chased. What profiteth a man sat in her theaters. There were Most Creationists seem to believe honest, frank and open at all times. to gain the whole world and lose white marble fountains into which in the discoveries of science—iu the The habit of deceit grows on one his character — his self-respect — from apertures at the side there eternal elements and the eternal rushed waters everywhere known rapidly, and a regular policy-man himself? for health-giving qualities. Around forces inherent in them, but they is soon known of all men, and then “Don’t be a thing, but be some these basins, twisted into wreaths foolishly try to account for the it matters not if he would do good, thing,” is good advice, for surely of stone, there were all the beauties creation of that which is eternal, no one believes in him, and his en one who bends and twists around of sculpture and architecture, while which, being eternal, could not.pos- deavors to do good must wait for in order to please everyone is no standing, as if to guard the costly sibly have been created. But some the slow process of again establish thing but a thing, and he who display, was a statue of Hercules of claim that matter and force did not burnished Corinthian brass. Vases ing a reputation, or a removal to stands for something definite and of terra cotta adorned the ceme exist until created by an intelli pastures green. stands firm is something, no matter teries of the dead—vases so costly gence called God. They forget that The word politician has almost if in the great chernism of human that Julius Ctesar was not satisfied intelligence, or the process we call become synonymous with policy, life his action be that of a base an until he had captured them for thinking, must depend on matter Rome. From the edge of the city and it is perfectly laughable to see acid or a salts. a hill arose, with its magnificent and force of some kind,and this orig the performances of those who “ t h e man w ith h is e a r to t h e g ro d n d . burden of columns, towers and tem inating matter, or force, or intelli think more of office or popularity ples, and a citadel so thoroughly gence, or God, must have been eter “ Bowed by th e w eight of policy he bends for the sake of patronage than they One e ar u n to th e ground, to note the impregnable that Gibraltar is a nal or have been created. Now this hoarse heap of sand compared with it. do of justice, truth or right. How Vox populi, or w hat he th in k s is th a t. Amid all that strength and mag old, original god-force or god-matter cunningly the victim of this policy T he o th e r ear he holds aloft to catch nificence Corinth stood and defied calls for explanation fully as much delusion works! As far as he can T he fain test cooings of th e su b tile T ru sts. the world. as the force and matter which the T he w iliness of ages in his face, he belongs to everything. He be A nd in his back a double c u rv a tu re . “Oh, it was not to rustics, who Creationis endeavors to account for, lieves in everything and combats W ho m ade him n u m b to sense of rig h t had never seen anything grand, and would necessitate another situ- and wrong, that Paul uttered this text. They * nothing, excepting what lie thinks An a p t tim e-serv er, skillful caterer, to be in a sure minority, but he is C rafty an d cu n ning, a b ro th e r to th e fox? had heard the best music that had ^ar s°lhtion, and so on ‘ad infini- gods and fish,m ark well th a t a tt i tu d e ! come from the best instruments in turn. wary about being cornered, and Ye W ho p u t th e lim pness in th a t sp in e all the world; they had heard songs As Scientists, as seekers after sometimes thinks it best to preserve T hat he doth face tw o ways a t once, floating from morning porticoes and truth, and as ministers of the Gos- a dignified silence. In religion he And still m ore ways if policy d em an d s? inelting in evening groves; they had r . e ir ... •* , . . t passed their whole lives among pic- Iæ> °f Humanity, let us not forget “ O em perors, kings and ru lers in all sympathizes with all, and on a lands, pinch he can take part in the exer This is th ’A m erican you long have sought tures, and sculpture^ and architec- that the gods as well the witches m ourned because you found him not. tore, and Corinthian brass, which have vanished into thin air, aud cises of any. If he has a family it And Y our wish would nev er stra ig h te n u p had been molded and shaped until that, as far as man knows, the ele* is represented in the different meet th is shape, there was no chariot wheel in which ments of which the universe is com- B ut keep th ro u g h all e te rn ity , ings by the different members, as is A stra n g e r it to th th u e s m using and th e d ream s, which it had not glittered, and no 1,08611 and the ,nherent f°"* 8 thought to be most politic. Just T he in sp ira tio n s of th e p a trio t dead. before trying to gain some point, “ O people, only sovereigns of th ese gateway that it had not adorned. them which have built it, or rather Ah, it was a bold thing for Paul to changed it into its multitudinous S tates, such as an election to some office, th is th e pilot nature-fo rm ed to guide, stand there amid all that aud say: systems with their inorganic and he is apt to make the largest Is W hose h an d unsteady on th e helm , All this is nothing. These sounds organic forms, have existed forever. church a present of a fine Bible, a And m ind a le rt to catch th e passing that come from the temple of Nep w him ? tune are not music-compared with, . Men and women w’ith their supe- bookcase, a picture or a motto, and How fares th e S hip of S tate in sto rm - the harmonies of which I speak, I rlor Powers of knowing, feeling and vexed tim es? probably about the same time the W ill th is g y ratin g T hing lead safely p ast These waters rushing in the basin willing, as well as all life-forms,are EuchreCluband other social organiz The shoals and b reakers,in to q u iet se as? ” i of Pyrene are not pure. The stat- c - _ > •» /» » « • f i t f 'y * ' C oncluded on 8th page.