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T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, S E P T E M B E R 27, E. M 300 (1900.)
confusion he finds only a narrow brains, the feelings from their noble were originally sim ple-m inded peo­
A Voice From Géant.
I continuous crack so m inute of hum an h ea rts— they live; they are ple, but they were deceived and led
width as to barely adm it the inner* im m o rtal; they live beyond death. astray by foreigners. Now an o p ­
KY MARIE HARROLD GARRISON,
tion of a riec of note paper or This is the im m o rtality th a t m eans portunity is given them to recant.
the edge of a visiting card, yet this som ething to m ankind.
W hether If they do, they will be regarded as
Q uite a num ber of years ago a fissure once started never closes the vital spark th a t anim ated the good citizens and th eir houses pro­
scientist of Berlin, Prof. \ irchow, but increases steadily till finally exquisite brain of Shelley has tected. If not, they shall be re­
m ade the sim ple Hut im p o rtan t there will be no treacherous ice passed on to other worlds th an the garded as ruffians. The d istrict
statem ent: “ The destiny of tcience pile but a wide chasm of rock and earth is a wild conjecture. If m agistrates m ust carefully num ber
is the service of h u m a n ity .”
ea rth in which hum an beings m ay im agination chooses to picture all the Chinese C hristians in their
We m ay say with equal tru th - walk with com fort and pleasure other worlds it will be very difficult districts and compel them to re­
fulness and reason the very same We believe this of the fissures now for Science or u ltra utilitarianism cant, and tak e g u aran ty from them
words concerning F reethought. sta rtin g because it is th e record of to pass a law against it. Im igina- th a t they will never again enter
I n the philosophical field Free- the other fissures th a t started tion is as m uch a fact in the world the church. They are to report all
thought and Science have the same away back in the past m arking as steam is, and not subject to m a­ foreign churches and property in
en d in view, viz., freeing the h u ­ their history as they advanced.
terial binding. Inventors of labor order th a t it m ay be confiscated,
m an m ind from error, from its
Perhaps you will insist th a t it re­ saving m achinery couid not invent and th a t speedily. The people
g re a t burden of accum ulated mis­ quires a decidedly cheerful tem ­ w ithout im agination.
m ust not d istu rb the recanting
conceptions and m urderous m is­ peram ent to g ath er courage from
Im ag in atio n can be directed in ­ Chinese C hristians. J u ly 12.”
statem en ts th a t were being accept­ such an incident, and this is w hat to certain channels th a t are either
T his shows th a t C hina has found
ed as history. Science and Free- you should th in k an d help along useful or in ju rio u s to m ankind.
her m istake m ade in the trea ty of
th o u g h t are both trying to discard w ith —cheerfulness; for th a t is also
Our w’ell being resolves itself 1857. She th o u g h t then th a t the
h earsay and guesswork.
an a ttrib u te of Science and Free- back to the question, “ W hat are golden rule of “ reciprocity” as
I do not m ean to say th a t Sci­ thought, when they begin in youth we h ere?” A re we w orthy of im ­ tau g h t by Confuciug and C hrist
ence and F reeth o u g h t are going to and have not been shaded by the m o rta lity —of being forever in. the
was the same. She has now found
kill out im agination and poetry. dam nation of the old O rthodoxy. mem ories of o u r fellow m ortals?
th a t th a t rule as practiced by
There is to be a poetry of the fu­
But I am not going to m oralize If so we will coutinue to live in the C hristians is: “ Do unto the other
ture none the less beautiful be­ nor give you a “ c u rta in lecture” great future, to our c h ild re n ’s
fellow as he would do to you, and
cause it will be the offspring of on the d u ty of being cheerful. I ch ild ren ’s children, and how much do it first.”
Science and Philosophy in some am sim ply going to repeat th a t in farth er on we do not know. P lac­
instances and of Science and Love a m om ent of discouragem ent I was ing a lim it to th e fu tu re would be
G hostly Horses Trot. C hesleigh,
in some other instances.
strengthened by an observation of a failing undertaking.
Our busi­
a G host, Drives Them.
I m ust hasten to say, however, one of the slowest of n a tu re ’s p ro ­ ness is to live, not sim ply exist,
G eneva M ystery.
th a t this article is not a treatise on cesses. From the fairy-land of nor sim ply echo, but live, stir, dif­
eith er Love, Philosophy or Science S w itzerland’s dangerous ice fields fer, dispute and not be afraid to
Geneva, N. Y., has a trio of
as such but ra th e r a philosophical­ I turned my eyes to the seemingly use fact and im agination, poetry ghosts— a m an and a team of horses
ly intoned message of courage to m ysterious, piled-up illusions of and Science.
T hus have I used —and they appear every Tuesday
certain alm ost discouraged fellow superstition on which the sunlight poetry and Science when declaring night at 10 o’clock w alking across
F reeth in k ers who have been com ­ of reason was steadily beating, and th a t to my ears cam e a voice from the w aters of Chesleigh Pond.
plaining to me of the slow advance I said: “ These, too, shall disap- the Glacier du G eant.
R esidents in the neighborhood of
th eir labor in Liberal fields is pear-
the pond and people from Geneva
m aking. They tell me th a t in cer­
H ere, now, is where poetry may
watch from the shore for the p h a n ­
The Trouble W ith China.
tain sections of the country super-, be adm itted for awhile. Here, now,
toms. The team is driven bv the
stition seems so consolidated, stu ­ im agination m ay guide my pen
m an seated in a low vehicle, and
BY D. E.
pidity so densely packed and piled long enough to state th a t from
the apparition fi?st appears coming
up th a t reason gets no chance at G eant ca-me a voice crying: “ Be­
The trea ty of 1857 between C hina down the road on the east shore of
it.
hold, even in its slowest move­ and the U nited States contains the pond. The horses tro t on the
At one time this was my own m ents, n a tu re ’s inevitable cannot this clause: “ The principles of the w ater for tw enty rods, and then
state of feeling.
I was about be escaped. The seem ingly eternal C hristian religion, as expressed by m an, horses and vehicle vanish.
to throw up all efforts an d give my ice m ountain m ust give way to the the P ro testan t and Rom an C atholic The route never varies.
time entirely to the social d rift, the steadily p en etratin g sun.
Even churches, are recognized as teach­
Chesleigh Pond is four miles
strictly “ Household Gods” and the so the su n lig h t of knowledge on the ing men to do good, and to do to n o rth east of Geneva. It covers
pleasures of im agination, when, most consolidated glacier of error others as they would have others th irty miles and has neither inlet
from an unlooked lor source came will cause it to d isap p ear.”
do to them . H ereafter, those who nor outlet, but is believed to have
an adm onition to have patience;
W hich o re of you is w illing to quietly profess and teach these a su b terran ean connection with
cam e a sound th a t I may tru th fu l­ declare th a t only in im agination I doctrines shall not be harassed or Seneca Lake, two miles away.
ly call a voice of encouragem ent. m ay claim to have heard a “ voice” persecuted on account of their
I t has been observed th a t when
You will no doubt sm ile (or pos­ from G eant? M any of you m ay a ith .” This clause has an im port­ a storm rages on Seneca Lake the
sibly scoff) when I tell you th a t claim so; I an tic ip a te your state­ a n t bearing on the present issue in pond Is also rough, and when a
th e said voice came from the fa­ m ent and see th a t in the future we C hina. The U nited S tates consul
calm lies upon Seneca, Chesleigh
mous G lacier du G eant, of rugged may quarrel on the subject of im ­ at Chefoo sent a dispatch to th e Pond is unruffled. Its depth has
Sw itzerland.
agination and poetry which I hold governor of th a t province insisting never been ascertained, although
It is true th a t
thousands of 1 are as essential in conveying th a t C h ristia n ity cannot he u n ­ m any attem pts have been m ade to
workers cannot go to interview the knowledge as ether is essential for rooted in C hina, and urging him to sound it.
Swiss Glaciers and m any would the conveyance of light from sun to protect all property of Am ericans
S ix ty years ago the pond and a d ­
not go if they could, hut they can earth . H ad it not been for im a g i-; in Shangtung. I t received this re­
joining land were owned by T im ­
all read about these m ighty ice nation we F reethinkers would have ply: “ C hinan, J u ly 11 — T he pro­
othy Chesleigh. One day in the
fields and learn how slow is the no Shelley who is surely our poet; tection of m issionaries is stipulated
w inter of 1857. Mr. Chesleigh s ta r t­
gradual w idening of the fissures we would have no Shakespeare, by trea ty , and I will use every
ed to drive across the pond on the
th a t finally cause the glaciers to a n d ,in d e e d , we should have had effort.” T he following, also, was
ice with a team of horses. Out in
disappear.
no orator, Ingersoll.
T hrough a issued w ith the governor’s sanc­ the lake the ice gave way, and
The steadily shining sunlight on rig h t use of im agination, of poetry, tion: “ The Boxers have become so
nothing was ever seen again of
a m ountain of ice causes it a t last those men are im m ortal— not only num erous, it is im possible to con­
m an or team.
to “ cry out with a m ighty voice” im m ortal, but im m ortal beyond trol them . They have th eir origin
T hat th e ap p aritio n s uow ap ­
while it is rent from crown to base th e grave, after death. Is not this in the unlaw ful and overbearing
pearing are the restless sp irits of
and the h u m an being who is pres- self evident? The atom s compos­ practices of the C hristians, which
Chesleigh and his team is the firm
ent at the tim e tu rn s in astnoish- ing their hearts and brains have are carried on to such a degree th at
belief of the older residents who re­
m ent on hearing this sound and been resolved back to a less com- it was im possible th a t trouble
m em ber the circum stances ofChes-
fully expects to see the masses of plicated state of existence but the should not arise. Those Chinese
leigh’s death.
ice rent asunder, but to his u tter , tho u g h ts th a t em inated from their who have em braced C h ristia n ity
The ghosts were first seen by
For the Torch o f KwtMon.