d. ng thousands of times inure for hu­
ANSWER TO MATERIALISTS
' captive souls of men!" To liberate
manity in giving money and men and
mankind from all binding fetters of
By Guy Fitch Phelps.
women fur the needs of others than
external authority! (of whatever kind
are the enemies of the church. Come,
or type) to help men rise above and
I*ublt«h«d .nry Friday mornlnif .1 Silverton.
The Silverton Journal of Sept. 2«>th i Elisa, publish a list of your gifts to
| overcome ail temptation! The old 1'a.
Orecvn. by
I gan legalism and formal ceremoniii* has very little in the Materialist col­ the poor; give us a list of your Mat-
J. E. HOSMER, Editor.
I Uam rested upon External Authority umn worthy of notice, It beeiUM that eualislic misuionaries to the darkened
I with which it bound the hearts and some time in the past a certain Rev. lands beyond. Who ure they and where
ENJOYED BY ALL CHILDREN AND GROWN FOLKS
souls of men in superstition and idol­ Vischer has unswered sume Jung run are they working? 1 know that Chris­
I iik Iructive mid Educative.
atry through fear. Prohibitory law: oy Maud V. Warfield, oí Idaho, and tian Missionaries are at work in every
“Thou shalt not” was its foundation of that iris article is being made a “tar­ land in the world; that they are giving
get'’ by the Materialistic brood, which, 11 ■.« ir live on the far Congo and in the
pow’er.
i
Dependence, servility, Bondage mor. by the way, is very much scattered. > snqw sweept north, and like John Pat­
al, mental and »'.“ritual atrupii; led Mrs. Wai field is in Iduho, Eliza er , arc in the isles of the sea. But
I to abject slavery and slavish «ubmis- Bitten is m New England, Ulin Rc-ss is where are your missionaries ? The Sal­
| sion and weakness. This is am. has in Ohio and Mr. Sheridan is in New vation Army is in the .iums with then
shelters ami rescue homes and foixi
ever been the effect and result of the Fork.
Now,
while
this
is
not
just
mj
fight,
depots, but wliul have you to show ?
Eatand at th« po.tofflv« at Silverton. Orecun. Pagan spirit and method.
at ««cond cla*t iatM.
sUll the.-« ure a few things wlucii 1 l'he church to which 1 belong gives
It is death to the spiritual hope vnu
Subacriptioa. tOc per year. In advane«. Single
wish to replj to in the replies to this over two thousaml dollars for charity
coplM, 4 eanu.
life!
every year, gives it not expecting one
minister.
AdvwtiMna rata. mad« known upon applka-
PHONE BLACK 6S1
txx.
What is the true Christian m«.ht d?
Mr-. W ariield comes first with sev­ • cent in return, and yet there are less
This pap«r stands for freedom of thought« free- the method of Jesus ?
eral demands. She says she is a Mat- than one hundred who pay to this
dem of the press, freedom of speech, equality ol
Jesus recogiuzes (as does every enali t, and has no use for a nian- fund. C me on with as many materia­
up port unity and the religion of righteousness. Il
All work done In the shortest poexih » time. We are equip­
>s radically spposed to every form of superstition
help
ped to handle all kinds of furniture, pianos, etc., with very little
and tyranny, or licensing or permitting any form I sane and intelligent man) the powei God or any other kind ol a God, and lists that give that much to
of evil.
of environment, of outer temptation.
danger of any damage done.
she goes on to say we are not gelling others. The church to which 1 belong
But these He overcomes -these He enough lacts or‘'Ueiiionati sled truth*.’ is clothing the naked and feeding the
“THE LEAVEN AT WORK!"
disarms—these He brings 1» naugh* 1 wish Mrs. W urficld wouid state what hungry umi caring for the sick, what
NO LOAD TOO IIEA
FOR OUR TEAMS TO HAUL.
by inner fortification! By th«. cultiva­ she means by “demonstrated truths.” are you doing, you boastful infidelB?
Goethe, the German philoso, her and tion of moral resisting power! By the W hat would she call a demonstrate«! Let Eliza Bliven or Mrs. Warfield ur
poet, said: “The great battle of life is unfolding and awakening of the innei truth ? Then she wants to knew wind Olin Ross publish lists of your benev­
I spiritual powers! By bringing and by the spirit, or soul of man is. Sue want« olences u d jour missionaries, we will
between Faith and Name-Faith.”
If by faith we understand tne light ' helping man into a spiritual positive it uenionstrated that there is such a >e glml to look them over. Christ said
of intuitive discernment, or the seeing I self-affirmation which declares :"1 will'' thing. But it BEING does not demon­ that we should know people by their
and knowing faculty of the higher rise above my limitations! 1 will over- strate it to this woman what would'. -fruits, what are your fruits? If it is ►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
spiritual consciousness, we can agree | come my weaknesses! 1 will no longer is not consciousness greater evidienct the proper thing to take the belief in
WE MUST GROW OR DIE!
be a slave, “I will be a Man!”
«nan sight, Mre. Waraelu? 11 1 shuuiu G«>d away from men why don't you go
with Goethe
1 will walk erect in the dig n »' ami say that 1 had seen a spirit would jou md teuch the heathen—the cannibals
Then the great struggle in life is
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growing or it will surely die. We need your help, but wc
truth, ignorance and knowledge, free­ “I will rise and go to my father.” Gou had revealed it to me would you n the Supreme Being is a crime and I
want to give even more than value received.
I What ten thousand legal statutes could receive that ? Certainly not. Well, a degradation why don't some of your
Get us one or more at tifty cent« a year.
Use
dom and bondage.
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The real struggle then is between I not have accomplished under the olu seeing that my eyes are as good as ¿ealous members show bp ahead of the
yours, and that 1 may be as truthful, Christian missionaries in an unselfish
the binding shadow of fear and the system of external authority.
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liberating power of love, which casteth
The ’ :gher appeal—the higher !a* could you trust your own eyes if you Jevotenient to help the race by teach­
out all fear, and, by casting out all — the
igher light — the s ientjfic should see a spirit ? If not what would ing the fact that God is a myth? 1
fear, sets man free in heart, mind and I meth' ji Jesus will always and does you take as ev'uence? Why do you Know you don't do it. 1 know, and 1 < ►
spirit.
always accomplish (without miracle, call fur demonstration and then ulterlj .now that you know, that you have • < ► ’
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Slavery and Liberty are the great without vicarious mediation or magUal hcit out of court all that w ould demon­ lothing that would lift the heathen
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Christianity
goes
with
her
strate
it
?
Materialists
do
this
in
«.
opposites, and the process of evolution. , substitution) for the methed of Jesus
50 cento per year.
then flatter themselves that they Lave schools and her ideas and lifts people < >
ary progress has ever been from the is the law and the way of life!
_o
self
respect
and
intelligent
reason-
low plane of slavery and the con­
By which alone delive'am e fior. won their case. Such a method in court
EDITOR OF SILVERTON JOURNAL
ditions incident thereto, and the high besetting temptation will ever come! wouid insure a decision always for the ng, and, Eliza, all the difference be-
SILVERTON, OREGON.
side so conducting itself. The dishon­ .ween you and a black cannibal wom­
hope of liberty, which is still a visit n
By which alone is “the Higher Lib­ esty of infidels is their greatest con­ an, the drudge and beast of the hut, is
of faith, before us.
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erty” and crown of self-mastery ami demnation. Let Mrs. Warfield answer the difference Christianity has made.
Christianity (pure and undefiled by­
the
following:
self-conquest!
these questions through the Journal: When the black man is converted to
pagan idolatry and priestly corruption
Expression, not suppression, is the Is love material ? Is reason material ? Chrisuanity, he immediately takes the
Name
and perversion) came a light of the
law
and
method
of
the
higher
Chris
­
load
from
his
wife's
shoulders
and
Is
hate
material
?
Is
memory
material
?
hope of this higher liberty into the
Address ...
i
If not, by what law of science do you places it upon his own; he ceases to
dark night of pagan bondage. The | tian life.
>e
a
cannibal;
he
becomes
intelligent.
Liberty is the light of our high say that matter produced them ? Don't
Name
keynote of the gospel of Jesus is
Christian cal'ing. Authority is the dodge the point, but meet it fairly. 1 uo not need to argue this, for it is
‘Freedom,’,’ is “Deliverance. ”
Ad<i resa
Can the unlike come from the like? a fact which none but the viciously
binding shadow of Paganism.
To set man free! From what?
stubborn
will
deny.
But
what
have
UNITARIAN.
Will wheat come forth oats ? If not,
From all conditions and influences,
Name
how can pure matter create a thing you for the degraded and mentally ob­
and elements which have resulted in
like love and memory ? Ah, what's scure? Why don’t you go as mission­ < ► Address
iiondage, in mental and moral slavery.
the
use ? All men are compelled to aries? Why haven't ths materialists of
What were these conditions of dark,
“THE PURPOSE OF RELIGION”
Name
believe
Li more than matter for them­ America called a convention to send ■ >
ness, which bound men in fear, which
<
►
men
and
women
to
the
Congo
tc
keep
Address ....
selves and for tLe universe, and Mat-
blighted the hope of the human heart,
What is the real purpose of Religion?
< >
which destroyed the vision and light of It will depend largely upon your con­ erialists are not different from the .he heathun from believing there is < > Name
rest of u«- on that point, They ar> , a God? You dared not go. You knew,
faith, and plunged men into abject
■ '
ception of what religion really is!
conducting a great bluff, which iim .did 1 know, that you would leave the • ► Address
bondage ?
As people differ radically in taste, in mostly cheap conceit on their part? Heathen lower than they are now, and - ►
c
Organized and institution alized
likes and dislikes, in looks, in tempera. and without reason in the nature of hat your scalps would not be safe.
priestcraft!
I ment, so also people differ greatly in things.
Ah, Eliza, we have your measure. You
Organized and institutionalized
regard to truth. The one thing needed
• • •
infidels
are careful to keep your prec­
kingcraft!
is for us to recognize that these differ,
Next comes our old friend Olin J. ious selves mighty cluse to the centers
Organized and institutionalized
ences are honestly held because of Ross, and he too is calling for proof. of Chri tianity, where, with no fear of
goldcraft!
temperamental 'variations. Religion, It is almost an inditement for people aarm, you pipe your little materialistic
This is the poisonous fruit of the
like everything else in life, has passed to go about demanding evidence of song like a “frog in the puddle which
tree of death of paganism, which des­
through many changes.
There are others. He seems to I ave a grouch on can’t get out."
troyed the fair promise of all human
many kinds of religions, though there against the idea of “spirituality.” To
She says in this article tflht Materia­
civilization, and our own is not im­
may be only one divine and eternal
mune from this very old poison, des­ principle of truth and spiritual realty, Olin there is nothing in the universe lists believe in the "golden rule.” How
out mud. But 1 wish he would explain >s that possible, Eliza, without believ­
pite our Christian professions or name.
which these various religions seek to how it happens that there is life here ing in a God. Come, now, you Mat­
for MAX BURGHOLZER’S new book of 32 pages
To an alarming degree and extend
interpret and make real and beneficial on this planet. How 1 wish he would erialists claim to be scientific; tell us,
the old pagan shadow of idolatry a .d
to men.
come forth and tell us how came the can a universe that has no God in it
magical ceremonialism still obscures
Time was when religion consisted in difference between living things of in­ ¡ave a standard of right and wrong?
the higher Light of liberty of true
the worship of sticks and stones; in stinct and reason and mere trees and
. tne way, where did the Golden Rule
Christianity.
crude
images and totems, Time was grass. There is a difference, Olin, and come from ? For fear you do not know
To a large degree we still pay hom­
will tell you. It is found in the book
age to the old battle of ceremonixl when men worshiped sun, moon and it is the task of you Materialists to
worship, into which the new wine wa» stars, air, water, earth and fire. Time tell us how it came about. Don’t take of Matthew, the seventh chapter and :
forced, when Christianity became or­ was when scores of gods and goddesses an illogical position and then go about the ‘welvth verse, and it is from the
were worshiped by zealous devotees. demanding of the other side to help ,ermon of the mount preached by Je­
ganized under Constantine.
In large measure even Protestants Time was when burnt offeerings and you out by proving something to you. sus Christ. He says: "Therefore, ail
mistake the old bushel of pagan idol­ human sacrifice, when blood atonement We demand that you prove a few things whatsoever ye wouid that men
It’s a good one to read and pass to a neighbor
atry benenth which the precious light and vicarious substitution, when magic things also. Say, Olin, where did life should do to you do ye even so to i
and
ceremonialism
were
the
basic
ele
­
come from ? Don’t you know that life them, for this is the law and the i
became hidden
is not material? And don’t you know prophets.” You got your Golden '
But the eclipse is passing! The ments in religious worship.
We call these ancient systems pan­ that all men of science admit it? Rule out of the Bible, Eliza, and ail
clouds are breaking! The shadows are
that is moral about you, you got at a
lifting! The Leaven is at work! Mon­ theism and paganism. We may speak Then what is your point ?
The last in the list is a little vapor .he same fountain. But it is a little
archical and ecclesiastical paganism of them as idolatrous because all au­
is dying! The light of Democracy is thority was external. Authority (not by Eliza Bliven herself. She seems to amusing that you would say you be-
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breaking! The spirit of Liberty is ris­ truth) form (not substance) observance have a great complaint against the .cve in the Golden Rule (Christ i., I.,
ing! Men are awakening. Presently and conformity (not reality) were the church. Let me remind this woman only one that ever taught it as a rel­
it wi'l be day and the light of the | shaping influences. The result was that those who belong to the churches igion), when it is found in the Bible.
knowledge of truth and the spirit of slavish subjection and bondage. The recognize the fact that there are un­ And I want to remind you that you
world-brotherhood shall enlighten the i effect upon the lives of the masses was worthy members in them, it could hard­ aid last week that Constantine called
hearts, minds and conscience of the , demoralizing and destructive. Idolatry ly be otherwise, seeing that they arc 318 Christian bishops together to
been
peoples of the Earth, and “the Golden must ever lead to destruction and human. Some are weak and poorly ■ WRITE THE BIBLE.” And you
oom, others the reverse. But when all c'aimed that they wrote it, and that it
death.
Age of Man” shal1 have come!
that
is admitted, the church is the .vas a collection of nonsense. And yet
for
The leaven of a new world-hope is
Into this dark night of corruption
mightily at work, soon the kneading ■ and moral degeneracy (for which we cleanest institution in the world, and here you are getting your highest
of the loaf must begin, th3t we may ! must find the cause) came the precious I challenge Materialists to deny this moral standard from the Bible which
taste of the real bread of life, which i light of the new revelation of life and statement. And more: I challenge them you say was written by these bishops
is the joy of peace, which is that free, of truth, which Jesus brought into the
n the fourth cen?-,rv. Consistency
dom and deliverance which is by the I world. By placing the emphasis upon
thou art a jewel which ,.o Materialist
If Elected, the moat Careful, Conscientious and Talented Legal
ly in fear, awe, superstition and idol­
knowledge of truth
Cor.
vears. Mr«. Bliven goes on to say that
tne inner life, the indwelling Father, atry.
Service will be given to the People of the State.
Rev. Tisciier will die “and never res­
the living presence of the spirit of God
The new revelation and gospel of
within the life of man, Jesus com- Jesus seeks to liberate and to set free urrect.” Now we will turn the mat-
AUTHORITY vs. LIBERTY
Study the Principles he Advocates.
jrialist’s trick by asking her to “prove”
p'etely reverses the ideal and method the captive souls of men!
that he never will, to “demonstrate”
in
religion.
Instead
of
Institutionalized
The purpose of Christianity (of Je­
The great struggle throughout all
¿he point that he won’t. How do you
history has been the organized shadow authority, instead of outer conformity sus) is Freedom—Deliverance—is the «now he won’t, Eliza? Then she closes
Jesus
makes
inner
reality
the
basis
of
higher Liberty, which is never of the
of lastitut'onalized authority and the
by saying that our “heaven or hell are
light and hope of liberty, within the religion. Not external authority, but oldness of the letter—the oldness of in this world made by our own choices.”
inner
realization;
not
traditional
rec
­
tradition, but, wlach is of the newness
spiritual nature of man. The great
Noiw this is a rich bit of admission on
struggle in society today is still be­ ord or ceremonial law; not forms of and in the fulness of the spirit; which the part of materialists. Is it not as
worship
or
magical
intercession
or
vi
­
is not by external authority, but by
tween these same elements, and must
READ AND HELP OTHERS READ
had to believe hell exists here in this
continue to be so until the light of lib. carious mediation, but the righteous­ and through inner reality.
world
as
to
believe
it
exists
in
some
"THE
ESCAPED
NUN FROM MT. ANGEL CONVENT
Whatever may have been the pur­
erty shall have overcome the shadow ness of the inner Kingdom is the key
other world? If materialists consent
OR -
to
all
spiritual
power.
Not
by
external
pose and influence of paganism the
of external authority. External au­
that hell exists here, why do they carp
authority
of
any
kind,
but
by
the
THE
LAST
STAND
OF
DESPERATE
DESPOTISM”
purpose of the Christianity of Jesus is
thority is a binding fetter Upon the
so about the Christian believing hell
knowledge
of
truth,
by
the
knowledge
the higher life of joy, freedom and
rising and expanding soul of humanity,
for one copy
exists in some other world ? Some
seeking and feeling after the higher of the laws of life, by obedience to happiness; the l;fe of conscious unity
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she
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What is the method by which Jesus
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Christians
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Seek ye the truth (not sacrifice nor "By their fruits sha'l ye knowthem.”
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Therefore
God
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responsible
if
a
freedom, into strength and independ­ authority) and the truth shall make Christianity, pure and undefiled, is man or woman goes from this world
J. E. HOSMER, Silverton, Oregon
the path of life, pagan’sm is the shad,
ence? Is not this the purpose of His you free.
(Continued
on
Page
3,
Col.
5)
The old system bound men hopeless. ow of death!
great world-mission? “To set free the
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