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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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-
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