THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JU N E 21, 1900. takes pleasure in hie anesthesia, but For th e Torch of Reason. The Moral M an. his pleasure is not worth having. At b irth all men are helpless, BY T. J . BO W LES, M. D. but they soon learn to help th em selves and, finally, to help others. I nder the glitter and gloss of This ab ility is the m easure o f our our C hristian veneering, we are at worth, and the youth who improves heart but polished savages and his tim e in tho u g h ts and pursuits 8tili retain the vicious iustincts o f 1 which educate and elevate will find t cruel auim als. The construction th at instead of becoming a useless, o f vast arm am ents by so-called unhappy man he will have a m ind C hristian nations for the d estru c well stored w ith th a t which fur tion of hum an life dem onstrates nishes him self and his friends much th a t we are nothing more aud pleasure and profit of the right nothing less than well-dressed b ar sort, while he whose selfish object barians. begins and ends in wealth or W hy is it that the so-called pleasure will retu rn to hie first civilized nations are still engaged condition of helplessness long b e in the wholesale m urder of th eir fore his time. It is inevitable th at fellow m en? W hy is it th a t men frequently d u rin g the life of one everywhere are still toiling and who is chasing worthless wealth or sw eating and bleeding, and w ithout pleasure, he will see its u tter w orth any hope for the morrow? W hy is lessness; and the tim e come3 in his it th a t m an, the highest product of m aturer years when lie clearly sees E volution, is far more unhappy its u tter insignificance: and then than the beasts of the forests? what? The rest of his life is spent W hence comes this awful perver in a fruitless endeavor to m ake up sion of our nature and this terrible for lost time, or in the darkness of load of sorrow and affliction? There an aim less existence. is a cause for all things, and there The m erchant who arranges his m ust be a cause for the social dis goods w ith nothing but money in tem pers and discords, the agonies view, seldom does as well as he and the sorrows, by which who loves the beautiful effects of his happiness has been banished from work. The a rtist, whose chief the earth and m ankind made motive in p ain tin g is the pay, is cheerless and hopeless and desolate. not an artist, and u ltim ately fails. The answ er to these m om entous The inventor who loves a for questions is not far to seek nor tune more th an his ideals will h ard to find. The deadly poison be disappointed. The playw right th a t häs blighted the hopes anc who counts his receipts above the the happiness of the race through entertainm ent of his audience will, all the ages is orthodox religion. sooner or later, receive hisses in Its exterm ination is an im perative stead of applause. A teacher who necessity. Relief for the race can “ keeps school” for “ w hat there is in never come until N aturalism over it” dots not teach school. And, throws supernaturalism ; until ethics finally, the hum an being who is is substituted for religion; until all wholly selfish, spending all his tim e the high stations in life now in getting, and plan n in g how to save usurped by the priests are filled by his gains, or in throw ing away his the teachers; until Science is sub golden hours in profligate pleasure, stituted for revelation; until the has lost his life and is not much moral m an is substituted for the religious m an in all the stations of better th an his brother, the m on life. key, and often does much more The moral m an has already made mischief. his appearance, aud he will con tinue to increase and m ultiply He w ho’d be h ap p y on life’s sea, until he spreads the net of his do H ie w ealth w orth having, g aining, m inion over all the discordant Must trim his cra ft afore an d aft, And spend his tim e in sailing. races of the earth. We already have glimpses of the good tim e I be low ering sails for p leasure light, com ing when the m oral m an shall Or tre a su re -isla n d s seeking, rule the world. The L iberal U ni " ill soon req u ite him day and n ig h t, W ith d isa p p o in tm e n ts reeking. versity of Oregon has commenced the work, and when the work is rb en up Piy sailor la d s; Yo, ho! com pleted, and surely it will be, We sail b u t for th e season ; the right will then trium ph over But while we roam th e o cean ’s foam , the wrong; virtue will trium ph Our pilot will be R eason. over vice; physical and moral And when we lan d , as land we m u st, beauty will then trium ph over Our a n c h o r g ently loosing, physical and moral deform ity; Ere we d e p a rt w e’ll will o u r c h a rt order and good governm ent will fo those w ho’ll still be cru isin g . then trium ph over disorder and bad governm ent; hypocrisy, sectarian ism, hatred, vengeance and war will Spread the News. then give place to the blessings of m orality, love and peace. 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