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TUP: TORCH O F REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JUN E 21, 1900.
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standing of the great underlying wisdom of
Ol rCCtASOn pr i„cipieJio„ w|jich a true knowledge cultivate
m an; we will love and of the fruits of others in com pari-
his goodness; we will son with this worm of God.
T h e O nly P aper of Its Kind.
of this great boundless, constantly reverence and classify his know!-
It is safe to say th at this crim e
changing, cosmic sea i« based, edge; and, th a t th e prophecy of of m urder and wanton destruction
P u b lish ed W eekly by th e L iberal Uni- T hat the planets revolve in regular th a t greatest of ail prophets, t h e of the products of labor, and the
. versity C om pany, in th e In tere sts of or(Jer th at there is a harm ony arid serpent, may he fulfilled, let us eat awful nightm are of in d iv id u al and
' o nstructive, Moral ^ e tu la rism .
& regularity in all celestial phe- of the “ blessed’’ tree of knowledge; national crim es th a t will probably
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nom ena is no proof of n a tu re ’s be asham d to lo: ger rem ain in our follow, can ju stly be laid at the
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ignorant
condition;
have our - feet
. M an ag er
P. W. Cieer,
he said to be wise. The order of eyes opened to the tru th and be as busy-body known as C h ristian ity .
The - / Chinese
people
could have
the planets, th a t is, the equilibrium the gods were supposed to be, know- r,,‘
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E ntered a t th e postotfiee at Silverton,
been wooed by lovers of Science
which is the resu ltan t of all acting ing good and evil.
Oregon, as second-class rntfil matter.
into a union with progress, and
forces, is harm onious to us because
w hat has already been done to
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
we have been evolved along with it
and can only exist with these con- THE BOXERS AND THE BOXED. m ake th a t great m u ltitude of h ard-
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ditions which
which have
have produced
produced us,
us,
working and enduring people free
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It is a very difficult thing for an from their conservatism aud super-
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whieh we are
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Am erican or a European to fully gtitions, has been done through the
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gentle,
loving,
enlightening
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Ingersoll
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Money should be sent by registered
neither merciful nor cruel, and we have produced the Chinese society u n jfyi>g influences of the Religion
le tte r or m oney order.
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no us au as
the the
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and and Science and H u m an ity . But
wish to add
that :t-
it is neither
good
known tri to
Boxers
nor had,wise nor unwise. Man alone, urged them on to kill the foreigu- C hristian fanaticism is not content
Notice!
who has evolved to an upright po- ' ers and even their C hristian coun- with blocking the wheels of pro
But the more we learn gress; she m ust wreck the whole
A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes sition of character, is capable of be- tryrnen.
th a t vour su b scrip tio n has expired. ing good and wise, and this is not a about the m issionaries and the civ-
train!
You are earn estly requested to re
new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa m atter of his will excepting as his ilized natio n s’ policy in forcing a
Jesus C hrist (real or fabulous)
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have de
religion
upon
a
people
who
utterly
is one of the greatest m urderers
cided th a t it is best for all concerned will, which is a process, proceeds,
th at we do n o t send papers longer th an as it m ust proceed, along the path despise and abhor it, the less we th a t the world has ever seen, and
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered.
blam e the Chinese and the more we wherever this ch ieftain ’s followers
T his will p rev en t any loss and we will of the least resistance.
know just w here we sta n d .
Some of the more intelligent condemn our law -m akers and law have gone, there have been spilled
We request you to send us th e nam es
breakers. We have a good oppor rivers of blood. “T hink not th a t I
of Secularists who m ight become su b C hristians think th a t their God
scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies. m ade the world as a skilled in tu n ity to talk with some of the come to send peace on earth , I came
ventor w ould m ake a wonderful most intelligent Chinese people, not to send peace, but a sw ord,”
m achine, hut after setting the com and their story exactly corrobo says Jesus. And again, “ If any
pleted m achinery in motion, he lets rates what m any of our own trav el m an come to me and hate not his
it run without interfering with its ers have stated, and th a t is to the father, and m other, and wile, and
A F U N D A M E N T A L FALLACY.
workings, excepting on special oc effect th a t the m issionaries force children, and brethren, and sisters,
The anthropom orphic god idea casions ra iled “ divine interven- the false religion of Jesus Christ yea, and his own life also, he can
has left in the m inds of m any a lions.” And this is no worse a fal- upon the people of C hina in a very not he my disciple.”
bad im pression, which, like the bad I lacy than some of the less intelligent mean and underhanded way; and
T hink not, dear C hristian (if
whenever
these
people
protest,
scientists,
so
called,
fall
into
when
ta»te a nauseating substance leaves
there should chance to be one who
no
attention
is
ever
paid
to
in the m outh, spoils m any an iu they a ttrib u te to all n atu re the
dare read this wicked paper), th at
it
unless
it
be
done
to
the
m
ission
tellectual feast. T h at hum an be- attrib u tes of th at part of it which
Science will send a sword on earth.
ings are som ething separate from we call great, good and wise men aries h u rt, and then our govern Science will not bring a sword, but
m ent interferes. Of course, the peace. And every scientist knows
nature, and th a t it (n a tu re) is and women.
W hen m an has ascended the Boxers may do wrong, but who can that if men LOVE not their
good, wise or otherwise, is one of
the worst of these bad im pressions.' ladder of Science until he is free blam e them , when one of the very fathers, and m others, and wives, and
N ature has no object in view, from the blinding emoke which has fundam ental principles on which children, and brethren, and sisters,
In fact, n atu re is neither a he nor arisen from his b u rn t offerings to their governm ent, religion and yea, and th eir own lives also, they
a she and does nothing like know- anthropom orphic gods, his emo- | social life is based is respect cannot be true disciples of H u
ing, feeling and willing, excepting, tions, his intellect and his will will for th eir ancestors and to travel in
m anity.
of course, th at part of nature we do homage only to the intellect, their “ trodden p a th s” ? Justice
call the brain. The outcome of emotions and will of man, and this cries th a t they should only be led
W E A L T H W ORTH H A V IN G
the
effects produced
by
the only for m an ’s benefit, not for his up to higher things, but never
attractiv e and repellent forces in- vain glory, and, like the people in forced . W hat if our C hristian
Y oung people should learn as
herent in th e m atter of the uni- Bulwer L y tto n ’s story of “ T he (friends were forced to give up their
verse is the present condition of Coming Race,” he will m anifest but trad itio n s? W h a t if m issionaries soon as possible the great difference
the universe. Because we fird little surprise at anything, for he from a heathen couutry would come between a life spent in intellectual
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is no sign th a t nature is good, but sure to follow its causes as is the heathen religion9 W hat if swarms pleasure. U nder present conditions
we have
and the
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u e en made
m im e bv
uy our
uui environ-
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n a ta l,a n d would not have existed rose,” that health and sickness, tions of governm ent, religion and intellectual and m oral advance-
at all if conditions had not been as happiness and sorrow, th a t poverty education?
raent is not to be discouraged, i >r
they have been. T h at the sun and riches, th at good and evil, th a t
The foreign em igration into this is the pleasure received from cm
gives us light is not good of the life and death are as they are he- country is nothing to be com pared fortable and harm onious surrour
sun nor is it good of a son or of a cause they are, and th at a knowl-1 to it, for the foreigners who come to ings; but wealth and pleasure, is
sou’s father, but we have been edge of this will be a factor iu m ak- our shores are som ew hat modest an end, is degrading, stultify 4
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the ing him
And what will be t le effect of the and tearing down our “ sacred cus is w’orth living if the object for
sun’s rays with the influences of all
the other things in the universe, discovery of this great tru th th a t tom s;” but of all the bigots th a t which we live is worth having»
and we are thus a p a rt of the outside of m an there is nothing ever lived on “ G od’s footstool,” th e W ealth in itself is not worth hav-
whole great Cosmos and as essen w orthy of the expenditure of our greatest are God’s own meek and ing: it is only an in stru m en t that
tial to the other parts as they are m ental force in real adoration, love lowly propagandists who so em m ay be used to secure something
and worship?
W hy, m an ’s at phatically sing: “ W ould He devote th a t is worth having, and that
to us.
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well versed in some of the laws Yes, we will learn to love each as I.” Worm! W ell, we should for pleasure is not worth h a \ i n l
and have learned long lists of sci- other better “ when the m ists have think so; and the codling m oth is excepting as it is properly used
intific term s, yet lack an under- j cleared aw ay.” W \ will adore the nothing in its persistent destruction strengthen.
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