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“ T R U T H B E A R S T H E TORCH IN T H E SEARCH FOR T R U T H .” — Z u c r e h M S -
NO. 11.
SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, E. M. 3U2 (19Q2.)
VOL. 6.
insane with hunger, kill and eat who sought for tru th , the counties
their shriveled babes, and yet the patriots who fought ami died in
BY B. M. LAWRENCE.
heaven above them was as brass vain, the burdened, beaten, weep-
and the earth b en eath -as iron, and , ing wives, the shriveled faces U
H E N m en sh a ll keep th e g re a t he sent no rain. Can we say th a t neglected babes, the m urdered mil-
c o m m an d ,
F eelin g th e sam e fo r self a n d n e ig h ­ in the heart of this God there lio n s o f th e v a n is h e d y e a r - .tb e v ic -
bor;
blossomed the flower of pitv? Can tints of the winds and waves, of
W hen rig h t is m ight a n d ru le s th e la n d ,
we say th at he cared for the child- flood and flame, of im prisoned
A nd all sh a ll live by h o n e st la b o r;
W hen ju s tic e , love a n d p u rity ,
re n o fm e n ? Can we say that his forces in the earth, of l ig h t n i n g ’s
B ring peace on e a r th w ith n o u g h t to
stroke, of la v a ’s molten stream , of
m ar;
mercy endureth forever?
W hen all sh a ll be in t r u t h m ade free,
Do we prove th a t this God is famine, plague and lingering pain,
T he w orld w ill be th e b e tte r fo r it.
,
,
nt
good because he s^nds the cyclone the m ouths th a t d r i p with blood,
When men care less for crowns of gold,
the the fangs th a t poison, the beaks
In c re a sin g tre a s u re s m ore by giving th a t wrecks villages a m i c o v e rs t ne , m e laug
i t
.
To feed and clothe the poor and cold,
wilh thg inangled bodies of ! that wound and tear, the triu m p h s
And teach them better ways of living;
■ . . « lb, of th e b a s e th e rule and sway of
When
men
of
wealth
are
more
inclined
fathers,
m
others
and
babes? Do oi tne oase, vne
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" we prove hi» goodness by show-1 wrong, the crowne th a t cruelty has
To buy th e t r u t h - l o v e a n d a d o re it
W hen all m a u k iu d p raise w o rth of m in d ing th a t he has opened the earth worn, and the robed hypocrites,
T he w orld will be th e b e tte r fo r it.
and swallowed thousands of his with clasped and bloody hands,
W hen m en care less fo r w hat fo lk s say, helpless children, nr th at with the who th an k ed th eir G o d - a phan-
A nd ta k e m ore care to c u rb th e ir
volcanoes he has overwhelm ed tom f l e n d - t h a t liberty had been
p assio n s,
W hen w om an sh a ll re fu se to pay
them with rivers of tire? Cao we | banished from the world, these
A llegiance u n to u se less fa sh io n s;
past,
W hen she sh a ll n e v er m ore c o m p re ss infer the goodness of God from the souvenirs of the dreadful
H er form d iv in e, n o r le a rn s to m ar it,
these horrors th a t still exist, these
W hen all c a re less fo r show a n d d re ss, facts we know ?
T he w orld will be th e b e tte r fo r it.
If these calam ities did not h a p ­ frightful facts deny th a t any God
pen, would we suspect th a t God exists who has the will and powei
W hen p a ra d ise on e a rth is fo u n d .
A nd c o n v erse h eld w ith w o rth y w a r­ cared nothing for hum an being»? to guard and bless the hum an race.
SOCIOLOGY IN FRANCE.
The B e tte r F or It.
W
How It Is Taught In Schools By The
Republic.
BY P R O F . FRANCOIS S lM IA N D , O F P A R IS .
(N o te by Prof. L e s te r F. W ard .)
S regard» the relation of e th ­
ics to Sociology there is a
strong disposition among
leading social phiosophers to look
upon ethics a* in a certain sense a
departm ent of the broader discipline
called Sociology. Auguste Comte,
the t rue foilnder of Sociology. did, it
is true, in his Positive Polity, place
morals above Sociology in his com ­
pleted hierarchy of the sciences, h ut
the attentive reader of th a t work at
once perceives th a t his morale is
very different from th a t of Paley,
W hateley and W ayland, and is a
direct outgrow th of Sociology. In
fact its fundam ental principle is so­
ciability, and its aim is A ltruism .
It has to do entirely with the rela­
den s;
tions of the ego to the alter. And
W hen E d en hom es rig h t here a b o u n d , If there were no famine, no pesti­ T H E PO W E R T H A T WORKS FOR R IG H T -
when we reflect upon it we readily
W here p u re love dw ells in p eacefu l lence, no cyclone, no earth q u ak e,
EOUSN ESS.
g a rd e n s;
perceive th a t there would he very
Most people cling to the su p er­
W hen all m ay own a n d d re s s th e e a rth . would we think th a t God is not
ittle of m orals if this relation were
T ill gold en g ra in s a n d fr u its bend good ?
natural. If they give up one God,
o’e r it;
removed or even th o u g h t aw ay.
According to the. theologians, They im agine another.
H aving
F ro m w ant se cu re ; n o n e rich n o r poor,
God did not m ake all men alike. outgrown Jehovah, the talk about So th a t, w hatever may be consid­
T he w orld will be th e b e tte r fo r it.
—[New C e n tu ry S o n g B ook.
He made races differing in in te lli­ the power th a t works for righteous­ ered the relative rank of ethics or
morals, it is essentially a Social
gence, Rtature and color.
\\ as
ness.
Science.
W h a t Is R e lig io n ? *
there goodness, was there wisdom
W hat is this power ?
W hile no question can arise as to
in this?
Man advances, and necessarily
BY RO B ER T G. IN G E R SO L L .
O ught the superior races to thank
advances through experience. A the true social nature of civics as a
God th a t they are not the inferior?
m an wishing to go to a certain branch of education, it m ight he
PART II.
If we say yes, then I ask another
place comes to where ,eft
the road di- supposed th a t Sociology is too
F this God exists, how do we
S h„ uld
Know UHU UO in
. —
l h a n k Vjoa m a t in e y a r e u«/i ™
,
. .
i
(j com plex and difficult for elem ent­
know th a t he ts good? How thank G()(, th a t they a , e not au-
•
t r()ad
, ary instruction. We shall see in
can we prove th a t he in tnerci- perior, 1>r sh<>„,d they th an k God 1 » « » « « » '> « ‘h« n g h l ro U , a
this report not merely w hat M. Sim-
ft,I, th a t he carets for t h e children of th(|t th
are
5ea8W ?
travels u n til he finds it ts l.e wrong
iand th in k s of this question, but
men? If this God e x ists, he has
Whel, God made these different
“ ' J . and how it has been answered by the
takes the rig h t-h an d road and
on m any occasions seen m illions of races he knew th a t the superior
reaches the place desired.
T he official fram ers of the French sys­
his poor children plowing the fields, would enslave the inferior, knew
th« same nlace tem ; for in F rance the p rim ary
.
i
i
i
next
tim
e
he
goes
to
tne same p ia o e ,
sowing and p lan tin g the grain, and that the inferior would be con-
,
when ’ he saw them he knew th a t
ed> and finally de8troyed.
he does not take the le t-h and.road, schools are established and rnained
by the State. We shall therefore
they depended on the expected crop
If God d jd this, and knew the He has trie t iat roa. , an
he dealing m ainly with the organic
for life, and yet this good God, this b b o d lh al would be
shed, t he th a t it is the wrong
laws of F rance on the subject of ed u ­
merciful being, w ithheld the ra in . agonieK th a t WOuld be endured, 1 r’8 •
^ ‘‘There is a nower cation, supplem ented by the decrees
He caused the sun to rise, to steal
pgw the co u n tieB8 fields covered theologians
say,
„
em an atin g from the m inistry of ed ­
all moisture from the_ land, but wilh lbe corp8e9 of the slain, saw ll““ ’ ^ ¡ d’ h a r m e d " ^ the b
A child, charm ed by the beauty ucation, which not only prescribes
gave no rain. He saw the seeds all the bleeding backs of slaves,
of the flame, grasps it with its the m ethods of instruction, hut
th at man had planted w ither and all the broken hearts of m others
dim pled hand. The hand is b u rn ­ actually provides the cu rricu lu m .
perish, but he sent no rain. He bereft of babes, if he saw and knew
ed, and after th a t the child keeps
saw the people look with sad eyes all this, can we conceive of a more
(P ro fe ss o r S im ia n d ’s R e p o rt.)
its hand out of the fire. I he power
upon the barren earth, and he sent malicious fiend ?
I n H igher P rimary S chools .— Iu
works for righteousness has
no rain. He saw them slowly de-
W h v then, should we say that
the present plan of studies for the
vour the little th a t they had, an d Qod J ’ d ?
tau g h t the child a lesson,
higher prim ary schools social in ­
saw them when the days of hunger T he d u n geons against whose
I he accumulate« expenen
struction is represented by m orals,
came— saw them
slowly waste d ip p in g walls the brave and gen- the world is a p o w e r an
orce a civics, common law, and political
aw ay, saw th eir hungry, sunken erous have sighed their souls away, works for righteousness,
economy.
eves, heard th eir prayers, saw them the gcaffolds stained and glorified is not conscious, not tnle lgen .
The end to be pursued is to cre­
devour the m iserable anim als that w;tb noble blood, the hopeless slaves It has no will, no purpose.
lis a
ate and m aintain in the pupils an en­
they had, saw fathers an d m others, with 8Carred and bleeding backs, the reH^ hougandg have endeavored to semble of m oral dispositions proper
A
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• T h is
wm
dfPk». ( i e
l^ t o n .
&<i- w rithing m artyr, clothed in
» eBtabjjBb the existence of G o d b y to prepare them for the life th a t
i i v c m
i t h e
virtuous Stretched on racks, the faCt t h a t we have w hat is called aw aits them in society.
*L i» ‘nt«re«tin« to know t bejr joints and m uscles torn apart, the m oral sense ; th a t is to say, a
T he motives to be employed are
the flayed and bleeding bodies of conscience.
of three kinds: Action upon the
j Ugt the extinguished eyes of those,
[To be Continued.]
C olonel ingereG ll’» laot public
w ith w hich th e address e n d s.—L d . lOKCH.
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