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T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, JA N U A R Y 30, E. M. 302 (1902.)
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the Jews how he m ight kill ‘‘Jesu s” The M yth of h e ll, or th e H u m an terms and arose out of sym pathetic J
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com m unication with pagan nations, ( f l l v v I l v l l v U
The valley of “ H innom ,” which
never contains water as does the
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among whom no positive theology
Valley of K edrou, separates the
by HENRY FRANK.
existed, it will then be evident that
Mount from the Hill of Zion. This
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the Bible will present no valid apol- (
sloping depression, called Ben H in ­
Ancient Hebrew thought is silent ogy for the existenc and perman-
SIM IL A R TO T H IS
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nom (Josh, xv, 18), brings before as to after-death experience. Post- ence of so revolting a dogma as the
us a m ental picture th a t pales C aptivity Jew ish thought, com- one we are now considering
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to insignificance the
atrocious p le x to n ed by r e r s ia n m y th o lo g y ■—
rne original m e a u m ^ u f th e tei
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crimes of Nero’e Coliseum— this is, which in turn was itself Complexion- H ades issim ilar to th a t of the Sax- reevhvd anti give« s a tis fa c tio n . N ow I
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the horrible blood-soaked H ell of ed by gloomy fecaudinaviau legend on term Helan. It is derived from i gupjxise you did a ru sh in g business
sacrificed innocents destroyed by a — speaks more clearly of the life of two Greek words m eaning “ not during th e holidays. \ o u ought to, for
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v o u r prices are way below a n y th in g in
race of sin-polluted, foul, soul-de­ the d e a d , but only in faint tones as s e e n ’—in visible.( Liddell and Scott, th ese p a rts. I priced at m any places in
praved brigands, from whom the com pared with mediteval C h ris t-, Lexicon.) Thus the original mean- ’Frisco, and find th a t on a w atch, vour
Anglo-Saxon race choose to accept lanity.
ing of H ades was, like H ell, the jew eled Elgin or W altham (price $5.00)
But
here
it
might
be
pertinently
concealed
or covered place of the
$7.o0 to $8.00 ; your $32.00 “ S pecial
“ good tidings of great jo y .” H ere
R. W ay ” , is $40.00. The Ladies C hain 1
A fterward it got from you, l>est tilleti, $3.00, is $0.00,
thousands of helpless little children asked, Why should we search the dead— the grave.
were cruelly to rtu red and slaugh­ Bible for proof of hell after death? came to mean the abode of the liv- etc.; then th ere is danger of getting in ­
ferior goods. I have learned to go out
tered as a sacrifice to the idol Mo­ Because it has more au th o rity ? Be- ing dead— but of the good as well of my way to trad e witli ft F re eth in k er,
loch (ii Kings xxiii, 10; Jer. vii, 31 cause of its inspiration? T ru th as the bad. “ There is in the H ades an d we all o u g h t to follow th is rule.
E. E Backus.
of the New Testam ent an equally
and xix, 6, 11, 12, 13), and here forbids this.
No, we search the Bible as other am ple significaton with the Sheol 1
their bodies, so insanely and h o rri­
O T T O W E T T S T E IN ,
bly destroyed, would lie festering books of an tiq u ity , m erely to learn Of the Old Testam ent as the abode
and decaying beneath the scorching in what m anner this H ell-dogm a of both the happy and m iserable
The Liberal Jeweler,
rays of a Palestine sun, until some developed out of the prim itive fancy spirits. (M cClintock and Strong’s
D e n v e r , C olo
m easure of relief was dem anded and idealism into the horrible re a l­ Cyclopedia of Biblical L iterature.) 1845 P°°AN A ve .,
1 am quoting very orthodox au ­ Is now p e rm a n en tly located Send for
from the stench of such putrefac­ ism of ecclesiastic formulae. B ut it
tion. F ike was the only remedy geems to me th a t even the Bible thority. H ades is, therefore, not prices of W atches, D iam onds C h ain s,
jew elry, S ilverw are, O ptical Goods, My
at hand, and for days at a time the does not clearly and in d isp u ta ­ all H ell— in the exclusive, repre­ B eautiful Ingersoll Sjxxjn, F re e th o u g h t
stifling fumes arising from such an bly sustain this repulsive doctrine, hensible, dam natory sense of the and o th er em b lem s—and save m oney— I
u n d e rstan d all big catalogues. My F a­
accum ulation of lifeless bodies was and it is not a difficult task to show creed.
m ous T ract, “ T heism in th e C ru cib le,”
[To be C o n tin u e d .)
Free.
not an incensa of sweet savor to the th at the vague passages on which
nostrils of the savage beasts of J e ­ theologians base the dogm a cannot
T h e N e w W o rld B e tte r.
rusalem . We are told in holy(?) be as positively interpreted in their
writ th at even at a very la te period behalf as they would wish.
BY ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.
The word “ Hell” itself clearly re­
this valley was an object of great
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detestation to the Jews, whence the veals its pagan or n a tu ra l origin.
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word “ G ehenna,” used in the New O riginally it was in no sense a th e­
T estam ent, a contraction of “ G e­ ological term . It did not prim arily as the greatest of all them es in M a in S t r e e t
S ilv e r t o n , O r e .
hinnoin,” signifying H ell, am ong mean even the place of the dead. poetry and song?
A nswer .— Love and Death. The
It m eant merely a concealed or cov­
both Jews and Moslems.
CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF
same
is
true
of
the
greatest
music.
Tl»e lower part of the V alley of ered place. The word is derived
K idron is at the present tim e called from the Saxon word “ H elan ” —to In T ristan and Isolde is the great­
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“ W adi en -N ar” (valley of fire) in cover—signifying merely to conceal est music of love and death. In
connection with those ancient idol­ or cover. (M cClintock and Strong's Shakespeare the greatest them es
S u p p lie s
atrous and atrocious crim es; and Cyclopedia of Biblical L iterature.) ate love and death. In all real
this most dam nable spot upon the The word afterw ards became per­ poetry, in all real music, the dom i­
B o o ks and
e a rth ’s surface is the real origin of sonified in H ei— the ogress of the n a n t, the trium phant tone is love,
the orthodox H ell—a place, a home, ogress of the abode of Loki. She and the m inor, the sad refrain, the
S ta tio n e r y .
which to speak of has been such a was the proserpine of the S candina­ shadow, the background, the mys-
sweet morsel under the tongues of vian m ythology. It was from that tery is death.
the pulpit orators for the last 2,1)00 m ythology, as I have said, th a t t h e I Q uestion .— W hat would be your
years. It is a spot of recorded h u ­ personification of the Devil and lit- advice to an intelligent young man Dealers ill F ruits, Vegetables
man cruelty.
To walk over it eral interpretation of hell is devel­ ju st startin g out in life?
and Confectionery.
A nswer .—I would say to him :
makes the face pale, the heart oped.
quake and the soul cry for ven­
Now, the Bible em ploys three “ Be true to your ideal. C ultivate
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geance if we are possessed of h u ­ principal words which cover this your heart and brain. Follow the
E X P E R IE N C E
m ane feeling. But if the vast pop­ subject, and which have constituted light of vour reason. Get all the
ulace of this 20th century, calling the storm -centers of theological dis­ happiness out of life th a t you possi­
them selves the advanced races of cussion for ages. These words are: bly can. Do not care for power,
evolution, desire such superstition, Sheol, Hades, G ehenna. Sheol oc­ hut strive to he useful. F irst of
why sh o uldn’t they have it? A curs 65 times in the Old T estam ent. a ^» euPPort yourself so th a t you I
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not a Hell to those who require it? limes by “ grave” ; 31 tim es by “ hell’; ! If >ou are «“ “ eHeful, if you gam a quickly
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superstitions should not be destroy­ am ent 31 times, is in the New Test- ^ree m an.
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wise enough to live in accordance FORSTNER’S AUGUR BIT
dox H ell? Nothing.
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lifts the veil for oui enlightenm ent. the exact m eaning of these words. with them . C ultivate intellectual
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term
Sheol
will
not
count
at
ferno we find ourselves on the high­
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