T orch SAMPLE COPY of R eason . •TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR T R U T H ."- —-r~ lTV 1 Ode to S u p e rstitio n . ÎÏQX EU L.L Y " A H 7, , A j, - , H)J ---- « NO. 22. the son of God coming into the to be horn of a virgin without any world, and “the Word becoming human mixture, and to be crucified, SCIENCE THE ONLY BASIS OF courge and ty ra n t of th e land, flesh was established among the ai d dead, and to have risen again W ISDOM AND CULTURE. K in d ler of d issen sio n ’s b ran d , D rop from out th y palsied h a n d , ancient Greeks and Romans long 'into heaven, we say no more in this T h ’ sceptre of th y sw ay! prior to the era of Christianity or than what you say of those whom A n A d d re s s D e liv e re d a t th e Close o f We have b u rst th v h a te d c h a in — the birth of Jesus Christ. And yet you style the sons of Jove.” Now, th e F o u r t h Y e a r ’s W o rk o f th e We disow n th y blig h tin g reign, Ne’e r will we be slaves again, more than a hundred millions of Christian reader, mark the several L ib e r a l U n iv e r s ity , O regon [L. U. Reason poin ts o u r way. Christian professors can now be important admissions which are O.], E . M. 3 0 0 , A . D. 1 9 0 0 . Rouse th ee for th e com ing h o u r! found who, in their historic ignor made here: G a th er all th y m otley power, ance, suppose St. John was BY PROF. T. B. WAKEMAN. ’Scetic, ste rn , fan atic, sour— 1. Here is traced to ancient hea M ussulm an and Jew . the first writer who taught then tradition the belief in an in the doctrine of “the Word R. P resident ; Fellow Teach P ride, th y b a n n e r for th e field; carnate son of God. Ignorance th y stro n g est shield ! becoming flesh”, and that Jesus ers and Student; Ladies T h ’ sw ord of falsehood will ye w ield- 2. The doctrine of a “first begot Christ was “the first and only be F a ith your w ar cry tru e. and Gentlemen, Visitors ten son of God”. gotten Son of God’' who ever made and, may I hope, Friends of our la k e th e field, w ith all vonr force, 3. Of his being born of a virgin. Stem E n q u iry at its source, his appearauce on earth. How true New and Liberal University: 4. Of his crucifixion. Stop triu m p h a n t R eason’s course, it is that “ignorance is the mother ou have assembled this morn \\ eld th y links again ! 5. Of his resurrection. of devotion” to creeds. 6. Of his final ascension into ing to realize, and congratulate us H ush ! th y bloody reign is o’e r! How “the man Christ Jesus” upon,the completion of the present Lies shall blind our eyes no m o re; heaven. came to be worshipped as a god. is Fly to L a p la n d ’s w izard shore— year’s course of study, and the T here revive th y reign ! pretty clearly indicated by Bishop All these cardinal doctrines of Commencement of a newUniversity H ide th ee from th e blaze of day ; Horne, w ho shows that the doctriue ; Christianity are here shown to have j year. You wall have noticed that H ide thyself from T r u th 's b rig h t r a v - of the incarnation was of universal j ^een existence, and to have been the proceedings of the day have T hrough th e valley w end th y way," Den or gloomy cave? prevalence long before Jesus Christ i Preadied by pagan priests, long a n -1 opened with music and the state- carne in the flesh. He says: “That j t®r’or to the Christian era, thus en- ment by our President of our pro- T here, in m ystic garb array ed , P e a t th y d ru m , th e moon to a i d ; God should, in some extraordinary tjrely oversetting the common be- ' gress, but with the omission of the Give th e w a n d ’ring sons of tra d e manner, visit and dwell with man, oi Christendom that these doc- j prayer, which is the general initia C harm s to rule th e wave! ls an idea which, as we read the ¡trines were never known or preach-. live upon occasions of this kind S u p erstitio n bows h e r h e ad — w ritings of the ancient heathen, ec^ in the world until heralded by j This omission is intended and in Falsehood sleeps am ong th e dead, B igotry’s e x u ltin g tread , meets us in a thousand different ithe fir8t disciples of the Christian evitable. Now can n o t condem n. forms.” If, then, the tradition of r' A fatal mistake, truly! ' By 6ucll fact an(, form of Sal’ried sons m ay m ourn h er fall— God being horn Into the world wau ! 1 h,s suicidal admission of Si. Justin ( the educational institutions of our P astors to th e ir flocks m ay c a ll; so thoroughly established in hea. j (a standard Christian writer) thus ! country are accustomed to signify They no m ore o u r m inds i n th r a ll ; Reason cries—A men . then countries before the Christian ; entirely uptnps all pretensions to ; and to manifest their adherence to —Selected. era, as here shown, why should not j originality in the fundamental doc- Theology as the real and ultimate and why will not our good Chris- Itrlnes of the Christian faith, and foundation of the knowledge, cul- tian brethren dismiss their preju- shows 11 l>e » mere travesty of I lure, Hfe.object, and aspirations J e su s C h rist a Dem igod. dices and tear the scales from their (l,e more ancient heathen systems, i they are founded and conducted eyes, so as to see that this univer- Ar,d we have 8til1 other testimony to inculcate. That their main pur- BY KERSEY GRAVES. sal belief would as naturally lead corroborate this conclusion. The pose may never 5„ ,nigtaken thev to the deification and worship of|rren ch writer Bazaln says, “The THUg declare, “that the fear of the T is truly surprising to observe “the man Christ Jesus” as water most ancient histories are those of Lord,” a supernatural being, before the damaging concessions of flows down a descending plane? Gods becoming incarnate in order beyOnd and above Nature, “is thè some of the early Christian And, certainly, a thousand times to govern mankind.” Again he beginning of wisdom.” They thus writers, ruinous to the dogmas of more reasonable is the assumption 8ays> “The idea sprang up every- ! declare, and act upon the declara- their own faith, with respect to the tliat his deification originated in " bete from confused ideas of God, I tfon that true wisdom is by revela- divinity of Jesus Christ, placing this way, than that, with all bis | whichprevailed everywhere among 'tfon an{] deduction from that super- him, as they do, o n an exact level frailties and foibles, he was entitled mankind that Gods formerly de-1 natural source, and not from con with the heathen demigods, proving to the appellation of a god—a con- 8cended ” P™ earth. The fertile tact with and experience of our that the belief in his divinity orig elusion strongly corroborated by imagination of the people of various knowable world, and the inductive inated in the same manner as the that able Christian writer, Mr. Nor nations converted men into Gods.” diflcovery of ¡tg facU( ,aw(J and belief in theirs did, by which it is ton, who tells us that “many of the And to the same effect is the declar- cesses clearly shown to be a pagan-deriv first Christians being converts from ation of Mr. Higgins, that “there The fact then that this morning ed doctrine. Several Christian writ Gentileism, their imaginations were were incarnate Gods in all re ers admit the belief in earth-born familiar with the reputed incarna ligions.” Sadly beclouded and has opened with no prayer and the gods, called the sons of God, and tion of heathen deities”. How nat warped indeed must be that mind reading of no revelation-Bible their coming into the world by hu ural it would be for such converts which cannot see that here is set in marks the beginning of the transi man birth, was prevalent among to worship “the man Christ Jesus” as plain view as the cloudless sun tion of education in our country «’¡’¡''.e, aupernatural, “re the heathen long prior to the time as a god on account of his superior at noonday, the origin of the deifi-I f™.™ cation of “the man Christ Je.u a” g,<T " " ko0"£ W,# founda- of Christ. Hear the proof. manhood! e will first quote St. Justin rel Again that ancient pillar of the unbiased mind can possibly ’ P*. ,*! 'Dg 7° i fi U° T* 7 " , e 8C1en i ie, na ura , ative to the prevalence of the belief Christian church, St. Justin, con- 8,ave off the conclusion that such a , , ’• ** V Practlca among the ancient Greeks and Ro cedes that the ancient Oriental hea- u,1>vere«l prevalence of the practice f mans. Addressing them he says: then held all the cardinal doctrines of G<xl-making throughout there- .e . „ „ . j j *1 v 8 '7 9 77 aw8 0 Christian faith relating to the '¡gious world would cause such ap , 7 1Ph>'S,Ca' " nd humana8 1 he title of Son of God [as applied of the Ohristia •=------------ ’ to ■ the ■ intro • man as Jesus Christ to be wor- 7 “ ‘" J Thus our bp8,n’ to Jesus Christ] is very justifiable incarnation long prior 'be fear of upon the account of his wisdom, duction and establishment of Chris .biped as a God-especlally when " " V considering you have your Mercury tianity. Hear him. Addressing we look at the various motives “”y Lord- but be I°"> <* *"<>’ . lwJge o f 'be world and of mankind; m your worship, under the title of the pagans, he --------J says: “For by de- which promoted men to Gods— • — — - ord or Messenger of God.” Here daring the Logos the first begotten D iie World’s Sixteen Crucified for all wisdom is thus founded upon what we do and can know, instead is the proof that the tradition of son of God,our master,Jesus Christ, Saviors. of what we don’t and can’t. Our S I