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* 4. 4 A « r . y ? t’ i 4 it / A v - «•’ ' , “GO YE, THEREFORE, TEACH AJ.L NATIONS.” Í -♦ ♦> MONMOUTH/OREGON; FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1880. VOL. X. * ■ • ■ NO. 31. * ?■-------- 1-------- !----------------- - ------------------------ * - "V- - , the principle of natural selection as ism, despair, and self-abandonment. there- is no truth, or certain conclusions temperature for the month 63 63 . hristian M essenger , applied to mind. It creates, therefore As between two tribes, one of which follow which he has not .drawn. The Highest dailjv’80, on the 26th. a feeling of surprise and concern that holds to the. Christian conception of general beliefs of the race in God, im Lowest daily, 54 , on the 4th. Devoted to the cause of Primitive-'Chpsti- those who appeal to the principle God and the future -life, and the other mortality, and retribution could n'ever ■ ’ T I’ eahce . anity, and the diffusion of general in »should so often reject all the general holds that mafter is all and that death have’arisen if maladjusted; and as Eola, Or., Aug. 2, 1880. formation. beliefs tif the race as totally baseless ; i i ends, in all, there cai>_be little doubt . well-adjusted they have the ofily mark Price Per Year, in Advance, $2.54) —-—J hs allyeiy well to talk about •_ All business letters should be addressed whereas,on their theory, a general be that life will take on higher and more of truth possible on the tligoryT Again ’ to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or ' Mary lief has the highest possible warrant. + • stable forms in • the former case than if the principle be true, then those the advantages.of travel- the cultur- Stump, Publisher,.Monmouth, Oregon. For example, the belief in theism and in the latter. There will be a higher beliefs which lead to the richestand ing Influences of travel ; but. it must - Advertisers will find this one of the best future retribution are common to man- estimate of man and his rights, and fullest personal and social life must, in be borne in mind that to travel is onq mediums On the Pacific Coast for making kind. By the assumptions of the the hence greater philanthropy and benev the ►long run,- eliminate all Others. thing, and to gain the advantages of - their business known. ory* they express the conditions of sur olence in general. Life, too, will lose Thusjiatural selection points to Chris- travel is quite another. Thej'tramp” KATES OF ADVERTISING vival. They are then adjusted to the horrid irony, which it always has tiani'ty_as the probable faith of the fit-! i is a great traveler; but the advantag 1 Yr 3 M 1 1 ir 'bp»c« reality, and we may adopt them with to a thoughtful mind, when death is ture. It clearly points to the dying es of trayel, to a tramp,.in his mental oo $2 50 »Foo $7 00 $12 00 1 luob. . 20 00 unhesitating assurance. 4 00. 7 (M) 12 00 But', oddly , supposed to end all. The good will ..out of all the theories of man and his i or esthetic culture, a re. Joy no means ' • 2 50 H<’ol. ........ 35 00 4 00 7 oo 12 00 20 00 H Col.. . ... enough, this implication of their view i find the highest possible encourage destiny which are held by advanced I always apparent. A tramp who has. 65 00 35 00 -20 00 (M» 12 7 DW Col_____ 12 00 20 oo 35 CO 65 00 120 00 1 Cui......... never occurs to the speculators ; and ment to right action in their belief, science. Who would have thought it- been ten ‘years on -the road lia> had Notice« in local columns 10 cents per line» for they.even at times declare that the and the bad will find .the highest pos But logic is great and must prevail. i -fine opportunities of observing scenery ear'll insertion. t Yearly advertisements on liberal terms. perennial beliefs of the race are suspi sible discouragement in it. Thus the For all who may be inclined to quarrel ; , and of studying human nature,’Lui he Prpfe^ioual Cards ¿1 square) per annum. cious on that account- if the theory be richer and fuller life must-go with the with the conclusions, we restate the ' 1 is rtfit always in advance of men who Mr. Devidaon I m oar Advertising have remained about home meantime^ : i true,-ill-adjusted beliefs cannot sur broader" hope and the -richer faith. problem: Given natural selection Agent In Portland. K- > Cither in refinement of taste or in his But this means survival for the form vive. “ ' 'the determining principle of belief, to Entered at the Post Office at Monmouth a» But passing by this inconsistency, er, hence adjustment, and hence truth. find the faith of the future. — We com acquaintance with the . ways of the second c I mh matter. we wish to propose and consider the It .means also non-survival for the lat mend it to all Spencerians as a profit world. So far, the tramp is like a great A New Aspect of Natural Selec following problem ; given natural se.- ter, hence» non adjustment, and hence able subject for reflection.— The Inde many tourists—in fact, like the ma tion. jority of tourists.—. As a matter of fact, lection as a unpyexsal' principal in .untruth. Even if we should allow pendent. tl!^ average tramp enjoys scenery mind to determine the. faith of the fu that-right action might be maintained BY PROF. SOBDBM P, BOWXl. -. — ture. It is plain, if the race is to con quite as much as the average tourist; for a time without these beliefs,' it The survival of the fittest is the Sunsets. tinue, then beliefs which lower and and he gains more practical knowledge must be allowed that when purely grestdrey which, in the hands of our “ from' his travelfor the tramp coin------- enfeeble either individual or social Tins is the way the new editor of ' held, they are powerful adjuncts of ■'advanced scientists- has unlocked so life must finally be eliminated ; and monly has his. eye on the country, he theCuUj'omia Advocate gives an artist hope, happiness, ami good conduct. many of the mysteries of mind and or those beliefs on the other hand. which ' passes, and on the people he tueets,—- friend devoted to brilliant "Sunsets Hence they will always have an ad ganization. Mr. Darwin has familiar-. lead to more and fuller life for both for selfish considerations, if for nothing' his first experience with V. ’ estern vantage over Any system - which at ized#is with it in its application to or- the individual and society must gain, more, — while , the tourist'more fre-- sunsets : ’ .. tempts to ignore them. In the long . ganisms, and Mr. Spencer has empha the human middle themselves. Oth ■ “ Well we do not know that we have quently looks to hiâ accommodations run, this advantage must tell by root sized its significance in psychology. erwise, the fittest would not survive, ing out all oppusitioft. anything better in the way of suasetsy of travel, and is .anxibus to make an The latter has built up an entiie sys which would.be contrary to the hy We-rpight continue this argument, but when it comes to fog, that is our i ¡impression on others rather than, to - 4 tem of mental science on this concep Travel tion Mind itself he views as an ad pothesis. We must bear in mind, too and show that New Testament Chris-s. forte, . We can putvnp mor.- f«g to the gain arty impressions of them. square inch than'any spot tm earth . does not of itself give any love tor justment of inner relations, to outer that in this theory there can be no , tianity must be the faith of the future .. ncry, or any desire after knowledge « relations, and timo;- thoughts are ad question of absolute truth, but only of' ¡f natural selectiomis Fo determine our except London. survival; or if there be any absolute beliefs. ” Let any person accept in We went through the G -llt-n Gat - ' ThatJ.ve And that desire must exist justed which lead to survival. In within -one's -self at home, or it will this way natural - Jection is brought truthjit is reyealed only through sur good faith Christ as his teacher ami ■ with the niost extravagant hopes op I i me "-it away from home And .....i ir- into play in the mental realn Those vival. But here the embarrassing fact master, and there is no doubt that seeing things^ the oc<-an, th- those who have'it at home will find ' beings whose thoughts ape ill-adjusted comes out that the new views, if true, I SUcK a person will be more valuable in. the ships, .the seabird*-, the golden j more enjoyment in the little glimpse - to the nature of things must speedily ; must necessarily be eliminated, as not I every relation of life. He will be a light shimmering over the rolling i i adjusted to the end of survival ; and fbetter father, or husband, or son, or waves, the.—well, what; we did see from the window of tITfc upper room collide with reality and perish. Only those organisms cm possibly survive, if not adjusted, then by the« terms of .neighbor, or citizen. His inner life, was an old lady crawling into her in the city, of a neighbor's garden, or of the vines over a porch across the whose inner relations or thoughts are the theory, they are not true. Com- too, will take a higher tone, both in its berth, seasick, and th^, fog so dense way, or of a bit of cloud scenery „down adjusted to outer relations or things. pare theism and atheism. The belief aims and its satisfactions. Again, let I that it seemed difficult^to g-.-t through the open street at sunset, ami they Hence, the adjusted survive, and by ,in a righteous Judge of all the earth , any community honestly adopt the it ¡—and the deck of our vessel. We will learn more of human nature in heredity their mental tendencie^jftre. has an undoubted value of society and teachings of Christ, and the knotiest-i heard the scieechj^’ a fog horn, and ^¡^^^“TEeTUghest ifiT-rmJT problems of political economy" "will our own steam whistle, and that is the study of the traits of tlreir immC- 4 integrated and transmitted. Tn this diate.’ acquaintances, or in their; read way inatincts, beliefs and forms of valuable satisfactions of the individual solve themselves. The threatening what we heard. We saw a streâk.of ing, than is gained by most persons spring directly from it, and as an idea specters which disturb our' social the sea we were running in. and .Sant* laws of thoughts arise. As such, they who have had several sea-ous in Eu express in a short-hand-way, the con- it is the great support of righteous peace will vanish. As a belief, Chris- 1 Cruz after we ran into it; but coming | rope and have traversed the American ___ ness in private and public action. The tianity furnishes the best possible back from Monterey -we made up for ditions of survival^ This is the gist atheist would deny this; but having platform'for both personal and social the lost time, and had a good view of ! continent in its length and breadth. of Mr Spencer's psychology. And of those who go away from home We have no intention of disputing denied God, he does not stop at deny action. And being true as a fact and ocean an'd shore. with the love of beauty and the desire ing anything which stands in his way. a great wojjd-forçe, natural selection O, friepd of- ours, the sun dues not the principle of natural selection in for knowledge in their minds, the ones We cal! his attention to the fact that shows that it must finally displace not set out here. r mind; but rather to pdfat outcome of who gain most are, as a rule, not the atheistic saints are very rare appear only all other religions, but all irréli It goes early to bed and covers up. its prominent'bearings upon the faith ones who travel farthest, but those, ances, and are generally explicable by gions, as well. Atheism, materialism, In the morning it gets up its night of the future. Mr. ^Spencer in his perhaps, who settle down quietly in a the environment. Whenever we hear agnosticism must vanish, because they gown, and does not put in an appear *' Data of Ethics ” has given us a lovely spot among the mountains or of an atheistic tribe, we know that it do not lead to the highest and fullest ance until after breakfast. glimpse of a millennium which is to by the sea-side, and look out on nature is in the pre-human stage of develop personal and social life. Relatively to Here we ride down town on a thing > result from the principle, He points in its ever-fresh and ever-changeful ment. It is beyond question that the Christianityj^hey lead to non-surviv- that runs itself. We do not want any ' out- that its inevitable outcome must moods, with an appreciation of all that be to produce a race of men who will be actual conscience of men finds its chief al, and hence are unadjusted, and hence sunsets, while !we have that, aud Den they see, and a purpose of learning.all 4 stay ii the belief in God. It is equal are false. And, as those who appeal nis Kearney ’ s set. ” so adjusted to their enivironment that the lessons that are set before them. If they shall find their chief happiness in ly unquestionable, to common 'sense most to natural selection are atheistic you cannot'travel in these midsummer that to destroy the belief would lead Weather Reporter Jlily, 1880. and materialists, it looks much as if work, and who will be. as eager to do yays; if.j'ou must restat your city to a very general destruction of moral they were'to be hoisted with their own their work as they now are to get During July, 188o, there were 2 home, or at one place away from home their wages. In the long run, the and social order—at least, among the petard. Modem atheism has been days during which rain fell, -*nd 0 25 —thank God that you can gain, just ” rabble. Indeed, it is whispered that based mainly on the claim that natu- lazy, the shiftless, and the unduly in. of waler, 18 clear days, and “tt wher§ you are. more of the‘lessons of the private life of maffy of the advanc al selection can produce adaptations selfish will be eliminated, and the ed thinkers already shows certain ego- without any designing intelligence; cloudy days, other than those on truth and . beauty than the tramp or thousand years of peace will begin. the tourist who expects'to acquire all But it is to be regretted that Mr. curean tendencies and a relaxation of and now it appears that the same which rain fell. __ . that he thinks worth living for l>y The mean temperature for „ the moral principle. But such a state principal is at last to root out athe Spencer has not considered the bear simply moving on.— S. S. Timex. would mean non^nrvival,-and hence month was 65.10°. Highest daily ism. ings of the principle on the beliefs ot New, to the average disciple of nat mean temperature for the month 78°, non-adjustment, and hence untruth. ’ the future. Indeed, a certain incon ural selection all this will seem bizar on the 15th. Lowest daily mean 55°, —The New York Tribune says; sistency is observable in the writings Natural selection, there, can Only take re and even absurd. Natural selec on the 10th. • “ The readiest way for a mediocre man the direction of rooting out atheistic of all the theorists concerning the ap tion is not to be use<F in such way. Mean temperature for the month at to gain notoriety is to proclaim him beliefs and confirming theistic faith. plication of natural selection to belief. We cannot stop even with agnosticism The unpractised reader, on the other 2 o’clock p . M. 77 25°. self an infidel and attack the Bible, They are all ready to apply it to the hand, will probably .miss the point Highest record of thermometer for His blows may-be as a hen’s pecking, for this is only another phrase of athe laws of merely formal thinking, and entirely. For the enlightenmeht, the month 94’, at 2 o’clock p. M, on but they are sure to attract notice be when we ask a ieason for the superior ism. Nothing short of the Christian therefore, of all whom it may concern, the 15th. Lowest thermometer 52°, cause of the holy and tender regard in conception of God can give the idea cogency of these laws, they tell us that wo point out that our present concern at 7 o’clock A. M., on the 28th. which the object he assails is held by a universal experience must' result in its full power and lead to the best re The prevailing w inds for the month is not with 'the truth or falsehood of thy noblest part of the race.” universal laws of thought But from sults. Behold then, natural selection natural selection in belief, but with its were from the North during 27 days, —Never threaten. Seldom scold. this it would follow that in a general working toward Christian theism I implications as a principle. And we in South 3 days, N. W. 1 day. A similar argument is possible with Refuse firmly. Consent cordially. experience, must have a very high sist that, if Mr. Spencer’s claim is During July, 1879, there were 2 reference to immortality. Any view Seldom find fault. Commend often. probability. No belief can become rainy days sound that our beliefs express only and .92 in. of water, 18 which limits our life to earthly exis Do not hurry. Do not worry. Avoid general which is not adjusted to reali- clear and 11 cloudy deys. Mean sarcasm. the conditions of survival, then either tence ends sooner or later, in pessim- r- ■ tj. This is a necessary inference from C ' > • 9 4 ■ I i i t