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“ TRUTH
VOL. 6.
R eason .
B E A R 5 T H E T O R C H IN T H E S E A R C H FO R T R U T H .’ — Lucretius.
S IL V E R T O N . O REG O N , T H U R SD A Y . NOV EM BER 6, E. M. 302 (1902.)
Noble !
NO. 44.
th a t he may bestow upon you a ’ object to a man wearing a garm ent
S O C IO L O G Y —
m ade of woolen and linen? W hy
should he care w hether a man In the Early History of Society— Social
rounded the corners of his b eard ?
Before Human.
(Lev. xix, 19, 27).
W hy should
God prevent a m an from offering BY F . H . G ID D IN G S, PROFE8SOR O F SOCI­
T H I N K n o b ly : Do y o u know
OLOGY IN COLUM BIA U N IV E R S IT Y ,
■ T h a t thoughts a re th in g s ?
the sacred bread merely because he
A n d th a t, fo r weal o r woe,
had a Bat nose, or was lam e, or had
To o th e r so u ls th e y go,
(F ro m “ E le m e n ts o f S o cio lo g y .’’)
O n n o ise le ss w ings ?
five fingers on one hand, or had a
R IM IT IV E E conomic I deas .
broken foot, or -was a dw arf? If
S p e a k n o b ly : In a word
— By com m unication and
T h e pow er m ay re s t,
he objected to such people, why did
By w hich th e w orld is s tirre d ,
discussion, until they became
he make them ? (Lev. xxi, 18-20).
By w hich its so u ls a re s p u rre d
T o seek th e best.
F orty - fourth . Why should we a common possession, the prim itive
F ortieth . Can it be true th at
ideas of utility and value were com ­
A ct n o b ly : M en give heed
God was afraid to tru st him self with believe th a t God insisted upon the
bined in a prim itive conception of
T o him w hose work p ro c la im s
the Jews for fear he would consum e sacrifice of hum an beings? Is it a
H is fa ith : A h e lp fu ll deed
wealth. D esirable things are not
In o th e rs sow s th e seed
them ? Can it be th a t in order to sin to deny this, and to deny the
T h a t grow s to h ig h e r aim s.
wealth until they are appreciated
keep from devouring them he kept inspiration of a book th a t teaches
L iv e nob ly : H e who d ie s
it? Read the tw enty-eighth and by the com m unity as well as by the
away
and
seut
one
of
his
angels
in
F o r tr u th , a ll m en a d o re ;
individuals th a t first discover th eir
B u t he who e v e r trie s,
his place? (E x. xxxiii, 2, 3). Can tw enty-ninth verses of the last ch a p ­
By d a ily sacrifice,
ter of Leviticus, a hook in which desirable qualities. Econom ists im ­
it
be
th
at
this
same
God
talked
to
T o live fo r it, is m ore
perfectly express this tru th when
Moses “ face to face, as a m an speak- there is more folly and cruelty,
they say th a t w ealth consists of the
eth unto his friend,” when it is de­ more stupidity and ty ran n y , than
A B O U T T H E H O L Y B IB L E ,*
useful things th a t can be exchang­
clared in the sam e chapter, by God in any other book in this world e x ­
ed, or th a t have value in exchange.
himself, “ Thou canst not see my cept some others in the sam e Bible.
Actual exchange is not necessary to
Sixty«one Reasons for Doubting.
face: for there shall go man see me Rertd the thirty-second ch ap ter of
convert the m aterial m eans of sa t­
and liv e ? ” (E x . xxxiii.
11, 20).
Exodus and you will see how by the
xxxiii,
BY R O B E R T G. IN G E R SO LL.
most infam ous of crim es m an be- isfaction into w ealth; but a general
F orty - first . W hy should a m an,
or social esteem is necessary. Such
D ivided in to S u n d a y B ible L esso n s for because he has done a bad action, comes reconciled to this God. You
an esteem arose when men began
s tu d y a n d reflectio n .
go and kill a sheep? How can man will see th a t he dem ands of fathers consciously to com pare their wants,
S IX T H SUNDAY.
make friends with God by cutting* Ht? blood of their sons. Read the th eir efforts, and their satisfactions;
hirty - eighth , is it to the throats of bullocks and goats? twelfth and th irteen th verses of the
be wondered a t th a t some Why should God delight in the third chapter of N um bers, “And 1, and when, by t h a t common consent
people have doubted the shedding of blood? W hy should he behold, I have taken the Levites which is a product as much of em u­
lation as of discussion, they began
statem ent th a t God told Moses how
from
am
ong
the
children
of
Isra
e
l,”
want his a lta r sprinkled with blood,
to arran g e the means of satisfaction
to m ake some o intm ent, hair oil and and the horns of his a lta r tipped etc.
perfum e, and then m ade it a crime with blood, and his priests covered
How, in the desert of S inai, did in a scale of desirableness. In those
punishable with death to make any with blood? W hy should burning the Jew s obtain cu rtain s of fine days of sh arp alterations of feasting
and starving, mere q u a n tity of a n y ­
like them ? T hink of a God killing
flesh be a sweet savor in the nostrils linen? How did these absconding th in g consum able im pressed the
a m an for im itatin g his ointm ent ! of God? W hy did he compel his slaves make cherubs of gold? And
(E x . xxx, 23). T hink of a God priests to he butchers, cutters and where did they get the skins of im agination; and crude abundance
saying th a t he m ade heaven and stabbers? W hy should the same badgers, and how did they dye was put first in the social esteem.
earth in six days and rested on the God kill a man for eating the fat of them red? How did they m ake To discover and conquer ab u n d ­
seventh day and was refreshed .' an ox, a sheep or a goat?
wreathed chains and spoons, basins ance was to win distinction.
Next in order were put the thing»
and tongs? W here did they get
(E x . xxxi, 17). T hink of this God
F orty - second . Could it be a con­ the blue cloth and their purple? | t h a t 'Ju a lita ,iv e |y or q u a n tita tiv e ly
th reaten in g to destroy the Jews,
the blue cloth and their purple?
solation to a man when dying to W h ere d id th e v oet .h e aocket, of Berved as m a rk '1 " f
such
and being tu rn ed from his purpose
Where did they get the sockets of
th in k th at he had alw ays believed
because Moses told him th a t the
brass ? How did they coin the ** tro Phie8» o rn a m ents, and imple-
th a t God told A aron to take two
things th a t
E g y p tian s m ight mock him ! (E x.
shekel of the san ctu ary ? How did ment8» and finally
goats and draw cuts to see which they overlay boards with gold? a PPea^ed to new « desires.
The
xxxii, 11, 12).
goat should be killed and which W h e r e d id th e v aet th e n n ^ h e r ie e a ^ r,m ,tive idea of wealth was thus
T hirty - n in th . W h at m ust we should be a scapegoat? And that W here did they get the num berless
instrum ents and tools necessary to not essentially different from the
th in k of a man im pudent enough to
upon the head of the scapegoat
accom plish all these things? W here idea of wealth today. It was the
break in pieces tables of stone upon
A aron should lay both his hands
did they get the fine flour and oil? notion of a socially esteemed ahund
which God had w ritten with his
and confess over him all the in­ Were all these found in the desert ance ° things necessary for life, for
finger? W hat m ust we th in k of
iquities of the children of Israel, of S in a i? Is it a sin to ask these 80C‘al di,tin0tioD . for em ulatio n ,
the goodness of a man th a t would
and all their transgressions, and put
novelty
questions ? Are all these doubts and f° r the ,m ,tatio n
issue the following order: “ Thus
them all on the head o f the goat,
born of a m alig n an t and depraved I t expanded with the growth of in ­
saith the Lord God of Isra el: Put
and send him away by the hand of
heart? W hy should God in this eq u a lity , which intensified the de­
every m an his sword by bis side,
a fit man into the w ilderness; and
sires to excel and to em ulate.
and go in and out from gate to gate th a t the goat should bear upon him desert prohibit priests from d rin k -
The rem aining economic ideas of
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ing wine, and fro m eating m oist
th ro u g h o u t the cam p and slay every
all the in iq u itie s o f th e people in to .
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grapes? How could these priests the prim itive social m ind were those
man his brother, and every m an his a i a n d . nr»t , i . n h , a h ... i l o . 9 z t k
a land not inhabited? (Lev. xvi, °
th a t constitute the useful or pro-
com panion, and every man his 21, 22). How could a goat carrv get wine ?
Do not these passages show th a t d u c tiv e a rts. Discovery and inven-
neighbor.
Consecrate yourselves away a load of iniquities and tra n s­
today to the Lord, even every man gressions? W hy should he carry these laws were m ade long after th e l *on were then, as they are now,
had left the desert, and th a t the prim e factors in economic pro
upon his son and upon his brother; them to a land u n in h ab ited ? Were Jews
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♦T hese 61 reasons from Ingersoll are now to be these sins contagious?
About how Can you im agine a God silly enough prim itive m an were few and sim ple;
had of the N . Y T ro th Beeker a n d in V olum e 11
o f the D resden E d itio n . They were w ritten in many sins could an average goat to tell a horde of w andering sav­
and his inventions did not get be­
th e sue, b u t not pu b lish ed td l a fte r his death. We
w ill p r in t them in p a rts —each p a rt reads as a carry?
Could a m an meet such a ages upon a desert th at they must yond the most elem entary tools and
whole. W e do th is because u n til th e people are
not eat any fruit of the trees they
em an cip ated from th e t ath o lic C hurch, th e P r o t­ goat now w ithout laughing?
planted un til the fourth y ea r?
processes.
Professor T ylor says
e sta n t B ible, and th e belief in " th e s u p e rn a tu r­
a l," there is no hope fo r th is w orld.—E d . T o r c h .
F orty - th ird . W hy should God
(T o be C o n tin u e d .)
th a t it is not quite true th a t man
E del sei der M enech.
H uelfreicb und gut!
Denn das allein
I ’n tersch eid et ihn
\ on alien W esen.
Die w ir kennen.
N o b l e let man be,
R ich-in-help and good!
F o r th a t alone
D istinguishes him
F rom all th e Beings,
W hom we know
— [G o i t h e .
blessing this d ay ” ? (Ex. xxxii. 27-
29). Is it true th a t the God of the
Bible dem anded hum an sacrifice?
Did it please him for man to kill
his neighbor, for brother to m urder
his brother, and for the father to
butcher his son? If there is a God
let him cause it to be written in the
book of his m em ory, opposite my
name, th a t I refuted this slander
and denied this lie.
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