TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 27, E. M.
Mow Children
Build
(1900.)
New higher considerations. Death may That life of hope, sinoerity, tru st-1 selfish deviltry has not tempted nor
h o n ip fllr a i)
a a
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.
Heaven.
be
pictured, as
of old,
as the bearer f fulness,
iunocence of . . all
wrong; . in I touched nor - broken. Better weep
of a scythe; but it is the scythe of the a word, that love which was mis­ for the child dead than the man
W illie K ubin was the son, harvester, not the destroyer. We takenly called “divine,” was the living. The early dead and the
about two years old, of Mr. and must learn the lesson ofScience—of love of and for the child. That past are only surely secure. Upon
Mrs Prank Kubin, whose farm and 1 ruth, that death is nothing, much love called father and mother to- them the heart can safely build.
home is about a mile westward less a king. It is simply the part- gether, and so became the founda- The inordinate grief of an “inor-
from Salem. Willie had brothers ing of the « aye of the processes of tion of civilization, and now it re- dinate affection” is too often the
and sisters but was the delight of change, which, when working to- mains the substance of heaven; and pain of a heart congested bv self-
I he never can it die. Out of it all other love. Let there come an outflow
the household. He would play off gether we had called life.
as to whom he liked best “to go physical changes of the body are to loves have grown, and must ever to others—another’s child, anoth­
to”—to papa” or “mama” or the go on and appear in other forms of grow’. The angels aud cherubs of er—suflering, afflicted or needing
other little ones, ^nd so made all matter—as plant and flower, fruit the old faiths are attempts to real- help—aud see how soon the new
feel that he loved each best in turn. aud other forms or conditions of ize the fact and process of this love current will awaken a new inteiest,
He was too bright and precocious life. But the human line of changes by material forms. But they lessened the new life, the receiving of which
“for this world”, as the old people that result from the life of this the truth. We limit the flow of consecrates to the highest ideals
would say; and though his general loved one must not be lost, as love when we try to give it materi- and duties we can conceive.
health seemed good a sudden brain heretofore they have been; for Sci- al form. It is the flow of an eternal
The ceasing of the vital action,
ence
and
the
Religion
of
Human-
change
aud
evolution
heavenward,
fever soon left no way open but to
which we call death, is thus a part­
The waves of individual life come ing ofthe ways which continues the
gather the child’s love and loveli­ ity now disclose and unveil them
ness into the higher life, and his to us as the higher, the en­ and go, they glitter or foam in the physical through endless ana bet­
form into the bosom of our Grea , during, the harvest life, of those sunlight for a moment, but they ter changes of the material; and
who seem to pass from us. That mark and help make the stream the mental and human qualities
Mother the Earth.
The afflicted parents could no unending life, and the heaven it is whose flow is an ever increasing through the higher stages of hu-
receive the legacy of life without a working, is in our human race and power, the evolution of human life men growtn aud progress. Arise
word, and the relatives and neigh­ its future on this earth. The Truth and hope. Every child’s life leaves then, no longer as mourners only!
bors and friends could not express will not let us be longer deceived. us the essence of this continuous As you have grieved, so receive
their helpful sympathy by looks The heavens and hells of the old angel and cherub life as a legacy and realize the higher influences,
and silence only. Rev. Mr. Cope­ religion ofthe churches were mahi- to us, an inheritance, more or less purposes and hopes of which this
land, the Unitarian Liberal clergy- fest illusions: they are not and living and abundant as we are able blossom life remains to you as an
nan, of Salem, was gone to his co­ never were. Gaze into the infinite to appreciate and so receive it.
unfailing inspiration aud promise.
starry
depths
at
night;
the
old
Afflicted ones! We have come in
To the earth its own! To the
operative colony, in Wàshington.
“Firmament”,
the
heaven
of
“cel-
all teuderness to pity and so to re- new human, the higher and bet­
After an interview with another
“clergy” it was felt that an “ortho estial mansions” is not there, lieve; that has led to that greater ter life, the new and true
dox” sermon or address would be Look at the morning sun; our ro-j realm ofhuman love which teaches heaven, not a mirage, but the
not only untrue, but cruel and out tating earth is ever circling around us to repair, by finding in death highest reality of human existence,
out of place in this home of Liber­ it as it moves through infinite space. the opening door to the higher life; receive this new and blessed
als. So, on Sept. 18th, Profs. Geer Not a single dogma or hope of the | tha t door may open to us by the last impnlse.”
and Wakeman, of the L. U. O., old religions can withstand these j touch of the hand of this child in
were induced to ride the 16 miles overwhelmning facts under a mo- which you have placed the
The burial was in the I. O. O F.
ment
of
thought.
Our
life,
hope
flower
of
hope.
and bring with them, as far as they
cemetery, near Salem.
At the
Yes, to relieve is well, but to re-
could, the lessons and consolations and heaven is only—on this earth,
and here we must build our new | pair, by getting hold of the power grave, Mr. Wakeman made a short
of Free Thought and Liberal Faith.
Mr. Wakeman spoke for half an heaven,- the Earthly Paradise, lof endless love, leads up to the address. He sought to remove the
houe or so, to the sorrowing ones It would be truer to say not | highest good of all, the ability to impression that the burial was
who filled the house. He told “we,” but the dead must build it; receive the gifts of the better and not a becoming way for natural
them that they had come, moved we must live to feel and help them higher life—the beginning of the chemistry to effect the physical
by pity, sympathy and respect, to to do it through us. It will be the ! heaven which is to be. That life hanges onward to new plant and
lives, which death . ~
,
T 4,
»
relieve the bitterness of grief.
It harvest of their
t
4l
rn,
is one of gifts. In the world of the flower, fruit or form of animal life;
was well to do so, for what is called enables us to gather. 1 he faith of
Science turns every death into a raind’ of thought, of purpose-the although cremation might ensure
death has been painted by fear as
the heavenly, it is better to it more speedily and pleasantly.
the “King of Terrors” and the loss harvest. Science for the first time
of all; and so it must be felt to be reveals the continuity, the con- give than to receive, because we Then the memorial urn might
when its stroke first falls. Then it structive immortality of every life, j can only receive by giving. The self- treasure the ashes at home, as was
is that the attention is wholy taken however humble, and thus its true ¡pj, heart stagnates and dies; the done at the home of Col. Ingersoll.
up by it, and the pain seems too sacredness. We are told that such healthy heart is such because its But the flowers may take their
great to bear. But let your eym human immortality may be for outflow constantly invitee a larger
place, not only on the grave, but in
pathy come in as a relief; it diverts the great, the triumphant by rea­
and better in-flow. In the true the home, to continue the love, in­
the attention to the fellow feeling; to son of genius, power or wealth.
The death harvest of their adult “spiritual” world we only gain by nocence and graces of the child life
the common fate of all. We all say,
lives all can see may be an endur- giving. To learn we must teach;
“let us help you to bear the com­ ing realty. But the life blossom of the well-wish follows the well-wieh.’ which must be the treasure to rea 1-
mon fate which all must share.” th. humble child, that only .
ly guard and cherish.
. ,
The weight that is crushing for ,,
r J
r such . is
• the
1
we mU8t I°ve in order to be
Mr. Geer, who had a helping
bloomed 1 . to fade—of
one—for one house and home new heaven? This query shows ^>ved’ an(^
'ove becomes hand for all and everything, hand­
only, may be borne when the how sadly our eyes have been known by word and work,
ed to Mr. W. a beautiful little bo-
hearts and hands of many loving blinded, and our hearts seared by
The child has all this by instinct; quet of flowers gathered from the
and pitying ones help to sustain
the old faiths. I he great harvest it loves, and every heart goes out
it. Thereby they lead us to see gathered by our race ie its harvest ,0 it in a careflBing) )oving> Bffec. flower beds where Willie had
caressing
that death is the necessary condi­ of flowers. They are really our
played, and this was handed to the
tion of all that lives and is to be harvest of ideals and hopes, and donate tenderness that no words mother, as a symbol to be kept
provided for, and sustained by all the promise of fulfilment in the can express. The echo of an affec­ and renewed, in memory of the lit­
with a noble and unselfish resigns- higher life. We look out upon!l,on
tion given
K’ven to the whole world! tle life that was, and of the greater
tion. So the love others give melts those barns filled with the ripened What is that but heaven?
life and hope in which it will ever
the mourner’s grief and floats it out
grain—but that is only for the life
We are giving to day, as far as live as a part.
Then rang out the
to the whole world changed into a
can, such an echo to this child’s last words:
general, sacred and beneficent sym­ physical; for man the animal— all
“ Farewell, Thou
pathy for all. The loss of one be­ for naught, except as the condition, heart which has given its all. Th us loved one! and yet Hail in the
comes the gain for all. Thus the the ground work of the higher it has passed safely and become a higher life to be ”
relief of pity will bring the repair o f, life which that is useful to sustain, part of the higher life becanse the
A F riend .
s it