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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1900)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON , NOVEM BER 29, E. M. 300 (1900.) \ icto r Im m a n u e l an d Leo XIII. --------- T here were prophesies before the d e a th of King H u m bert th a t the accession of his son would lead to a great change in the relations be- tween the Q u irin al and the Yati- can, to the adv an tag e of th e latter, But there are alread y signs th a t th an their parents is doing a dis- ♦ honorable deed. t R eflected R ays. T h at co u n try will have poor ♦ homes where the young are tau g h t * 1° honor and respect priests more than their own fathers; nuns and heology is a course in ignor- sisters of charity more th an th eir ance- Its purpose is to teach w hat own m others. The line of sacred; I Pos*tively known to befalse.— E. ne6s is not draw n around the a lta r, Dowe. Wh« »11 u . <1 u V ictor Im m anuel I I I has no inten- but arouud the heartstone; not tion of yielding any of the ground around the church, but around the loseg in the brjght in ten ecip< who acquired by his fath er and his house which hum an love has m ade cower before popular p r e ju d ic e ? - g ran d fath er. holy. I J 1 . 8 Mill. All th a t is hum an should be sac His utterances at/ his in a u g u ra It is certain th a t the discoveries All th a t is angelic and di- tion plainly showed his determ in red. of universal law have reduced ation to “ m ain taiu the trad itio n s of v*ue we can do without. {Investi* prayer among us to an anachron- his house,” and to “ preserve in tact g alo r‘ ism. It m akes no difference vvheth- our conquests and o u r u n ity .” ! er the prayer be for a m oral or an This clearlv m eans the continua- F alse In stru c tio n . intellectual, or a physical benefit. tion of the policy of a “ united I t a Conway. ly, and of a civil independence from Most of our religious in stru ctio n 5 parents. It is only in B ible-dom i nated countries th a t children are beaten as a religious d u ty .— T ru th - seeker, New York. Ghosts never appear to sceptics, but only to believers. Moreover, J ou a s ^ about a ghost in a house which is said to be h au n ted , the resident8 lau 8h at you. In q u ire in the next street, and the people shake their heads and say th ere is certainly som ething very stran g e. ■ 0 Go half a mile aw ay, and you hear th a t the ghost has been seen fre- ffuently. Go double the distance, and y ° u wiU learn the precise tim e when you m ay see it yourself. The fa rth er off the better for the ghost, Distance lends en ch an tm en t to th e view.— {F reethinker. papal au th o rity . An indication th a t no reconciliation with the Q uirinal is an ticip ated by Pope Leo X I I I is given in a circu lar let- ter issued by him to the C atholic powers the last of A ugust, in which he appeals to ihem to relieve him *s based upon th e idea th at m an is We bold it to be an exercise of Perhaps I do not know w hat I ! ’ncaPaf,ie of saving himself. M e was made for; but one thing I cer- reason to explore the m eaning of believe th a t man can keep the law tainly never was was made made for, for, and a univeree to which we stan d in ° " n be’ng, th at he can obey th a t is to put principles on and off relation, and the work we have the com m andm ents w ritten in his at the dictation of a party, as a accomplished is the proper corn- n a tu re - We believe th a t he can lackey changes his livery at his m en tary on the m ethods we have th ro u g h life physically and m aster’s som m and.-[ Horace M aun. Pu rsued. Before these m ethods We have faith in were adopted the u n b rid led im from a situ atio n th a t is intolera- m orally whole. hristianity ble, aud th a t h as grown steadily M an> faith »“ M an’8 Power and , C (-:l,rlstlan ll has nad the world agination roamed througli n a tu re worse since 1870. He refuses to M an’8 n a tu re - and th a t w hat he bV the thrOi“ for about sixteen huu- v u ttin g in the p ,ace of th e law the dred years. I or one thousand years figments of su p erstitu tio u s dread. recognize Victor Im m an u el as wills to do he can do. Religions have all been built on had not a rival; and as a re- F or thousands of years w itchcraft, K ing of Ita ly , considering him to , i u » • * i , . . , be only king of S a rd in ia , and de- hum an weakness, and so they a]1 j «ult, all h ,story records th a t p«f.od magic, m iracles, anti special provi d a re s definitely th a t none of the; f '« tr r a nd encourage a low idea of as the darkest and bloodiest in the dence an d Mr. Moseley’s “d istin c t Papal rights over Rome and the m an- -Det (be c h a in s of priestly annals of hum anity. Suppose we ive reason of m an ” had the world provinces which composed the aut,bority be struck from hum an try Secularism — m eaning huraani- to them selves. They m ade worse p atrim o n y of St. P eter are re. ? m b s and let the whole world be ty instead of ch u rch an ity —say, for th a „ nothi ng of it; worse, I say, be- nounced.” free- R eligious ty ran n y in the s couple of hundred years or so, cause they let and hindered those T VTTT • « • c s nam e of God has kept m ankind ju st for a change. The world must who „ ,ight have m ade som ething Pope Leo X I I I in his first cncy- , . . , ,• , , .. ? ... .. . . . (enslaved to creed and church. Let win; it cannot possibly lose.—fEx- of ¡t __{Tyndall. clical says: We shall never cease freedom be our privilege, and a am iner* to contend for our restoration to I learn from the New York better h u m an ity will he our future. th a t condition of th in g s in which U nder the old dispensation there T ruthseeker th a t an A m erican — {Ex. the provident design of Divine was no Jesus C hrist, no heaven, no Theosophical journal contains this W isdom had form erly placed the hell, no devil, no im m ortal soul, choice m orsel:—“ On J a n u a ry 19, T he C e n tu ry In a N u tsh ell. Rom an Pontiffs.” Leo will never U nder the new dispensation, all 1900, M artin Bergon shot and kill- cease to contend, n o tw ithstanding --------- these things and much more, have ed his wife and two children, and th a t the “ D ivine W isdom ” of Sci- This century received from its been introduced— plagiarized bodi- then shot himself. The law of ence is leading into a b etter path, predecessors the horse; we bequeath ly from Paganism . The reason th a t K arm a explains th a t the wife and the bicycle, the locomotive and the everybody does not know this is be- two children, m urderers in form er — C urrent H istory. m otor car. cause preachers receive food, rai- incarnations, have now reaped ex- We received the goosequill a n d m ent and sh elter for eternally ad- actly w hat they had sown; also th a t bequeath the typew riter. vising poople not to investigate; Bergen will be sent out of three W h a t is S acred . We received the scythe and be- m eaning> of course lh a t the credul- future incarnations by violence as ity of their flocks constitutes their karm a for his aw ful ac t.” Is it We need a new u n d erstan d in g of queath the m owing-m achine, , l o re a a a n o dinner, while doubt will any wonder lunatic asylum s are so bread a^d w hat is sacred. Men and women We received the nand p rin tin g ;. a . „ • .. • , • , , , r . ® lteetotally ru in th eir business.- full when stuff of th is kind is sown have regarded old sticks, old rags, p reSH ess; we beqiieatn bequeath the m e cylinder cy rt? J [E xam iner. old iron, as holy, and approached press. I broadcast over the world? K arm a . . 1 m ust be a sh arp fellow, m u stn ’t he, these ru sty , ragged relics with th eir We received the painted canvas; ,, , , , , to make so sure of his victim s. Pity brains abased aud th e ir m inds we bequeath the photograph and worl, uphold« as inspired the com- he c a n >t preVf,n l crim e in8tea(i of bowed down. All of this kind of colored photograph, m and to use the rod upon children, punighing it . I t is aI| awful j reverence is more th an foolish. . . . . . , , W e received the hand loom; we more enlightened sentim ent is driv- ».„„<» »* .v Buildings have been m ade sacred aud , in , ;flhment from lhe . X m H ’ t 7 i T ? by pronouncing th e word -G o d ” J to ry . hom e and school and im posing the ra t,° nal th l“ k abol“ - [ L iberal- over them , and hum an beings have ... , , W e received the gunpow der; looked upon churches as holier bequeath , E the lyddite. th an their own children, th an th eir own father« en d mother« W h o ' We received the tallow dip; , , ' , bequeath the electric lam p priest W hat for? For th e en We received the Hint-lock; , , , ’ < ' , v t . bequeath the M axims lig h ten m en t of m an ? No. For De‘l ueain ine Maxims. . « «• ... , . the enslavem ent of m an. Man to- We received the sailing ship; d ay is the slave of so-called holy bequeath the steam ship. t ^*ngS' The tru e today is holy, the good, th e beautiful. An angel m ay be a respectable person. We do not know. But whoever will teach children to reverence angels more 1 i .. o r' we penalties of the law upon the ex- i.oUU;..n use of the whip. .. i,: t -r ------------------- cessive In Tren-I v t e n. « . • we ‘° n . N. J ., R obert Scott was a few Our offer to give a copy of George days ago held in 400 d o llar bail Jacob H olyoake’s English Secular- we «or w hipping his children. H .s de- ism with a y e a r’s subscription to feuce was the biblcal one- He the Torch of Reason for one d o llar I quoted passages of scripture, and has m et with such a hearty re- we 1 ’ n y re even declared th a t he acted under sponse th a t we have decided to the direct com m and of God, and, as renew the offer. This book is cloth We re v iv e d the beacon sig n a l he went to his cell to aw ait the bound, gilt top, 150 pages, and ««3 bequeath the telephone and acti()n of the gran(i j ury h e m u tte r. HellH ,or 50 cen(8 We giy(, R (refi wire ess telegraph. ed a prayer and exclaim ed, “ Lord, with a y ea r’s subscription to the We received o rd in ary light; we I b u t did tby bidding.” W hile T orch of Reason, or a renew al. We bequeath Roentgen ray s.— [London I such belief is held children will re have only a limited number, so Answers. I m ain slaves of pious aud brutal order at once.