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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 ,
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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
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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-
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(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
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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 . „
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,
,
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
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rt?
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[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;
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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
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reverence is more th an foolish.
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W e received the hand loom; we more enlightened sentim ent is driv-
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Buildings have been m ade sacred
aud
,
in
,
;flhment from lhe . X m H ’
t 7 i T
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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
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,
,
W e received the gunpow der;
looked upon
churches as holier bequeath
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the lyddite.
th an their own children, th an th eir
own father« en d mother«
W h o ' We received the tallow dip;
,
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bequeath the electric lam p
priest
W hat for?
For th e en
We received the Hint-lock;
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v
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bequeath the M axims
lig h ten m en t of m an ?
No.
For De‘l ueain ine Maxims.
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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
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we penalties of the law upon the ex-
i.oUU;..n use of the whip.
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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
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quoted passages of scripture, and has m et with such a hearty re-
we
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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
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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.