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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1900)
2 T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON , N OV EM BER 15, E. M. 300 (1900.) a rt rich. Nevertheless the Devil The Ny- F or th e Torch of Reaeon. this custom has existed, or yet ex anza love hum an flesh. Dream s and Visions will cast some of you into prison to ists everywhere— in Europe as in am s-N yam s eat not only prisoners be tried and you shall have trib u Africa, at different periods of course, of war, hut also th eir unprotected lation ten days.” W hy should BY J . M. BERRY. but usually corresponding to a com patriots, and Schw einfurth was they be tem pted ju s t ten days? transitory phase of civilization. In once present at a feast, of which I was never much of a believer John does not say. I t is not a other cases it m ay appear under the menu consisted wholly of a the forms of a regular habit, com new-born babe. The coast-races of in dream s and visions, but it seems very long time, to be sure, but it th e W est, Angola and Loango, in th at John the R evelator was not would be ju st ten days longer than mon to a whole people. “ This, of course, cannot take dulge in cannibalism whenever only a great believer, but w hat we I would wish any devil to be tem p The Kaffirs may call an expert in this branch ting me and leading me up on high place with pastoral peoples who they get the chance. In the following I m ountains and church steeples. are preserved from hunger by the of the South 6eem to have given it of business. To the church at Pergam os he milk and flesh of their herds; it is up; at least, no recent case has propose to give the readers of the It Torch a few of his visionary say w rites: “ I know th y works and the consequence of a w arrior regi been reported am ong them . where thou dwellest, even where me, of a social hierarchy with a m ay be hoped th a t European in- ings with com m ents. In the first place he claim s to be S a ta n ’s seat is (C urious place is it servile caste, and of a religion th a t fluence will cause the disappear- sanctifies cannibalism and raises it ance of anthropophagy in these a brother and com panion of the not, for a church to be located?) regions by suppressing slavery and Lord, and while he was in the Thou holdest fast my nam e and to the position of an institution. L ord’s service on the Isle of P at- hast not denied my faith, but I “ There is, in fact, besides the m an-hunting. “ B ut we find cases of can n ib al mos, he has some m arvelous vis- have a few things against you, be- cannibalism of necessity, th a t of gluttony, th a t of vengeance, and ism elsewhere than am ong these ions of things past, present and to cause I find th a t you have those th a t of filial respect and religious m iserable people, and num erous come. He commences by telling am ongst you th at hold to the doc- feeling, or even th a t of justice. facts m ay be cited to show th a t it us th a t he was in the sp irit on the trine of Balaam and Balak, and The habit, once assum ed, is easily exists sometimes even in Europe. L ord’s day, but does not tell us eat things sacrificed unto idols, and kept up, as we see in the cases oi There are isolated cases due either what kind of sp irit it was, and per- to com m it fornications, and to to diseased conditions or to pecul haps he m eant th a t the sp irit was teach the doctrine of the N icolait- num erous existing races.” N either does he explain ans, which thing I hate. P retty In North Am erica, the learned iar instances of absolute necessity. in him . “ In 1852 an E nglishm an killed w hat he m eans by the L ord’s day. good charge for one church is it au th o r assures us, “ where white civilization is pushing the redskins an old woman, boiled her fllesh For my p a rt I cannot possibly see not? We wonder if John could About any difference in th e days. W hy find any of those things tau g h t gradually to the w all,” the Sioux with potatoes and ate it. Indians still sometimes indulge in the same time another E nglishm an should one day be any more d e and practiced by the churches of acts of cannibalism . The Crees killed a m an in the woods, cut up voted to tbe Lord th an another? today if he was here. But the church at T h v atria he and the Blackfeet keep up the cus th e body, hid the pieces, and ca r At all events he was either in the tom , which, according to the writer ried them one by one to his house, spirit or the sp irit in him , and he gives a round setting up. He says: was hequethed to them by the an where they were eaten by him and heard a great voice as the sound of I know th y works and ch arity and a tru m p et, and the voice told him service, and th y patience, and the cient M exicans, of opening the his wife. “ In 1872 a young Ita lia n , seven- to write, and to send w hat he last to be more than the first, not breast of th eir enem y to extract to the Seven Churches w ithstanding, I have a few things the heart and eat it raw . The teen years old, killed seven women wrote He declared which are in Asia. It seems against thee, because thou suffer- M alays, he says, also eat the tiger’s and cut them up. it not, th a t in est th a t woman Jezabel, which h eart, th a t they m ay become brave, th a t he took pleasure in eating strange, does and quite recently the New Zeal their flesh. A nother Italian killed a great country like Asia, they called herself a phophetess, to and natives ate their enem ies so as and ate his own tw o-year-old babe. were able at this tim e to support teach and to seduce my servants “ In 1884 shipwrecked English only seven churches. They were (the m inisters of course) to com assim ilate th eir desirable qualities. sailors killed and ate one of their not as num erous then as they are mit fornication and to eat things H e goes on to say: “ The forests of the Amazon are com rades. How m an j sim ilar cas today, and perhaps they were sacrificed unto idols. I gave her a A t all chance to repent, but she would yet inhabited by races who p rac es have occurred w ithout coming to taxed a little heavier. tice cannibalism either for veng public noticel The survivors of the events Jo h n sends an epistle to each not do it, so I will cast her into a eance or gluttony. Justice, how second F latte rs expedition to the oue of them , and has more or less bed, and them th a t com m it a d u lt ever, requires the statem ent th at all S ahara, during a halt at the Hassi- rem onstrance to raise with each, ex ery with her, into great trib u la the Brazilian tribes are not canni el-H adjdadj well, killed and ate no cept the church located at P h ila tion. And I will kill her children less th an eleven of th eir comrades, delphia. T his he lets go with only with death, except they repent of bals; caannibalism is disappearing one by one, to avoid perishing of an adm onition to hold fast to the th eir deeds. more and more, and no recent in Is not th a t ra th e r a hunger. The butcher of the ca ra faith once delivered to the saints, curious way to punish a woman stance has been reported. Even van conducted the executions with and if any of them lied and said for ad u ltery ? the Fuegians, after having been And then to kill the tacit consent of the survivors. they were Jew s and were not, he her children for the sins of the long regarded as incorrigahle eaters “ I t m ay be seen th a t cannibalism of hum an flesh, seem to have given would m ake them of the synagogue m other. Does not th a t border very is far from being com pletely ex- of S atan, and m ake them come and strongly on in fan t d am n atio n ? up the practice. “ In A ustralia, the natives are tin ct, and th a t we find it practiced w orship a t her feet. To the We w onder how m any Jezebels supposed to be cannibals only on som etim es by representatives of the church located a t Ephesus, he has could be found in the churches of A nthro a few consoling rem arks to m ake, today. occasion. But Lum holtz says th a t most civilized nations. In alm ost every paper we pophagy from necessity will prob ‘they eat children b y preference, because she had tried some th a t pick up now-a-davs, we have an ac ably exist for a long tim e, but civ rarely members of the tribe, but claim ed to be* apostles and found count of where some woman has ilization will cause the traces of alw ays strangers. H um an flesh is other m anifestations of cannibal them to be liars. Nevertheless he seduced her m inister or vice versa, to them the most toothsom e of vi ism to disappear ra p id ly .”— [L iter had som ewhat against her because but still the good work goes on. ands? ary Digest. she had left her first love. We To the church in Sardis he says: “ In New G uinea, the petty P ap wonder w hat Jo h n would have to “ I know th y works, th a t thou hast uan tribes ate prisoners of war as Sighing is but another nam e for say if he could witness the churches a nam e. T h at thou livest and a rt lately at 1883. The B attacks of oxygen starvation. The cause of today, th a t have their lying apos- d ead.” R ath er a peculiar position S u m atra have invc.ited judicial sighing is most frequently worry. ties, and are leaving their first love is it not, for a church to be placed anthropophagy; they devour con An interval of several seconds often by the thousands. O nly a fey in, dead and alive at the same demned crim inals while yet alive. follows m om ents of m ental dis years ago the churches loved to tim e? But the nam e is all th a t The natives of New C aledonia also quietude, during which time the preach and teach the doctrine of Jo h n could find. It is our opin- practice this custom , but in secret. chestw alls rem ain rigid un til the election, foreordination, in fan t ion if he were here todav, he could “ But the tru e land of can n ib al im perions dem and is m ade for ox d am n atio n , endless punishm ent, find plenty of the sam e kind. ism is Africa, the land of m an ygen, thus causing the deep inhal- and all the notorious and m iracu And finally to the church of the hunting and slavery. H ere game ation. It is the expiration follow- lous absurdities tau g h t in the Bi- Laodiceans he says: “ These things abounds, b ut w ar is only a mean ¡ng tbe inspiration th a t is properly ble. But today all intelligent peo- saith th e am en, the faithful and of procuring prisoners and hum an term ed the sigh, and this sigh is pie are leaving them as fast as pos- tru e witness, th e beginning of tbe flesh. sim ply an effort the organism to sible. And to the church located creation of God; I know thy works The negroes of Southern N ubia obtain the necessary supply o f ' at S ym rna he says: “ I know thv th a t thou a rt neither cold nor hot. and the region of the A lbert Ny- oxygen.—Ladies’ Home Journal. tribulations and poverty, but thou So then because thou a rt luke-