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It is not difficult to see how under
such a system of corruption and usur­
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nition of their divine possibilities; that ; her 13th up, ear several articles by dogs (unproved) and that breeders
■
Olin
Ross
in
reply
to
several
of
mine.
change
cattle
and
horses.
All
will
be
neglect the cultivation of the higher
These replies are characterized by the well for Mr. Ross, if he will go to his
spiritual nature of man.
Into the darkness of this spiritual presence of the usual “straw men" pasture and breed a horse into a cow,
and moral degeneracy came the prec­ which infidels are determined to set or a cow into a horse. That would
up. 1 will answer what is worth while forever establish evolution, but until
ious light of the new gospel.
in his articles.
he does he has no case, for that is
With what result? What always
exactly what evolution is claimed to
because
1
write
in
a
He
finds
fault
does happen when the light of pro-
“mob fashion.” But he will know the have done. Materialist* claim that an
Entered at the poetotHce at Silverton. Oregon, gressive reform comes into conliict
at second-vias» rates.
reason why my articles are without ape became a mun, and that a fish be­
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We
can
easily
realize
the
alarm
and
ped
to handle all kinda of furniture, pianos, etc., with very little
Thia paper stand» for freedom of thought, free­
the scientists named upheld the Bible ed to be a man, and simply gave a
dom of the prew. freedom of speech, equality of consternation struck to the very heart
danger
of any damage done.
heave,
leaped
the
gap
and
found
him
­
account of creation, but that they be­
opportunity and the religion of ritfhteousneas. It
is radically opposed to every form of superstition of this perverse and corrupt system,
self
a
man.
Then
stranger
still,
(hat
lieved
an
Infinite
God
manipulated
the
and tyranny, or licensing or permitttn< any form which took no account of man or hu­
No Load too Heavy for our Team* to Haul.
of evil.
whole scheme of creation. Darwin be­ creature felt that strange thing which
manity by the new revelation, by the
lieved this in part. There are many miracle-haters call "cosmic emotion"
new gospel of Jesus, which made man
evolutionists who are not materialistic and by an “inedible cleavage" (1 should
the very corner-stone of its founda­ infidels. My quotations are correct, say so!-he divided himself into a man
tion.
and the fact that Mr. Ross chooses to and a woman, and immediately he
Not mythical gods and idols, but doubt them is not to the point. I did dropped the old process, and went the
the divine Presence — the indwelling not say that Mr. Huxley denied evolu­ tadpole method one better, and put ■ >■
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There is perhaps no branch of study are the basic elements in the teachings species, which is true. I will quote fashioned way. But 1 protest that to
want
to
give
even more than value received.
of
Jesus.
change
a
cow
into
a
horse
is
not
*o
Huxley on that point. He says: “After
so interesting and fascinating as the
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us
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Uae
great
a
feat
as
to
for
an
ape
to
make
Eternal Oneness and identity is the much consideration, and with assured­
evolution of man and of humaiuty as
the
following
blank:
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new ideals and hopes which Christian­ of God within the purified heart! Not characterist'cs ? Since man began to brain of a philosopher.” Dr.Pfaff, in
Name
ity (essential) brought into the world, outward conformity and observance, cultivate grain he has tried to improve an article: “When did man appear on
we shall be obliged to make a brief but inner realization is the key of the it, but wheat is still wheat, oats are the earth?” shows by a scientific table
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oats, turnips are still turnips, and so that the average size of the very first
inquiry into the character, purpose and new gospel of deliverance.
on to end. Why don’t evolutionists skulls was 18.877 as to 17.795, the first
general effect of the old systems of
Name
Here is a radical and revolutionary settle the case by helping matter pro­ representing the most primitive skulls
religion. By contrast and comparison
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alone can we ascertain their respect­ departure from the old system and duce an eye or a fin or a tail of some­ and the latter the skulls of the modern
methods
of
religion!
thing.
They
have
all
the
aid
of
sci
­
ive values. Let us realize that the
hottentots. And he shows that the
Name
Here is a new revelation! a new light ence at their command, and all the skulls of the stone age were larger on
hope and life-giving gospel of Jesus
was not only a progressive gospel re­ revealing a new path! opening a new laboratories are open to them; let them the average than the skulls of modern <> Address
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compound living matter from dead Europe. In fact, the average size of
vealing progressive tendencies in re­ door.
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ligion; it was not only a forward and
But—here also is the beginning of a m tter. Go at it, Mr. Ross, and .pro­ skulls in the stone age in every land < •
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duce
the
t'p
of
a
toe,
and
we
will
be
­
was larger than the average skulls
upward movement toward higher at­ great conflict between the old Pagan
tainments, but—it was a dynamic gos­ shadow of corruption and superstition lieve. Why is nature impotent to pro­ of Europe, everything taken. This is
Name
pel. It was a revolutionary message leading to bondage and death—and— duce with al the aid of eccumulated a scientific fact, and seeing that Mr.
science
the
least
tip
of
a
hair,
or
make
with revolutionary' force and intent!
this new radiant light of essential
Ross accuses me of not liking science,
Address
Was not its purpose the complete Christianity, this divine light of de­ the smallest cell to divide, with man we will see how he takes to this bit of
overcoming of the old powers of dark­ liverance and salvation leading unto to aid, while she birthed the endless it? The Cro-magdon skull is a pat­
forms of nature without aid ? Such tern of perfection (in heads) though it
ness ? The complete overthrow of the life and liberty!
utter foolishness! Will materialists belonged to the earliest stone age.
old, corrupt and perverse system?
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The early Christian church spread
Here then we note a revolutionary that light. It was a church rich in the please explain this inability?
His reference to the peats that are
Next Mr. Ross notices my statement in the world is easy for a believer in
intent and purpose fulfilling itself in nearness and fullness of the Spirit,
“that man has always been man,” and the Bible. It says God cursed the earth
evolutionary method and process. In free and untrammeled.
seems to try to show that I contra­ because man had sinned. Sin and a
order to trace both method and proc­
Its utterance was spontaneous — ifr
dicted myself by saying that men have curse always go together. It is up to
ess let us take a brief glance at be­ was with power.
grown shorter or were taller in thi s
ginnings.
for MAX BURGHOLZER ’S new book of 32 page«
Every student knows what happened age or that. Will the readers of this materialists to show why evolution
In the earliest stages of civilization
produced such things. Many of the
when
Christianity
became
the
state
re-
debate please take note of this argu- things that curse men are brought
we find our primitive ancestors wor­
l’gion of the Roman Empire.
ment ? It shows how utterly barren upon them by their own deeds, such
shiping stones and sticks. Later we
He knows what happened at the the desert fields of materialism are for
find him making images and totems
as insanity, physical disorders, etc.
a blade of reason. What I said was
of wood and stone, making fantastic Council of Nicaea.
Then comes a long overflow on what
How the true light became hidden that wherever we find man, HE IS A
and grotesque shapes, begotten of
the
church has done. This is one of
MAN,
not
an
ape
or
a
half
ape,
and
beneath
the
old
bushel
of
Pagan
for
­
their own elemental and fear-bound
malism.
the fact that the race is getting short- I the men of straw of which I spoke.
imaginations.
All I said about the work of the church
A little later our primitive ances­
How the new wine wa- forced into er or were once quite tall, has no more
to do with evolution from tadpoles for the natiors and the Blums is true,
tors, rising slowly in the scale of de­ old bottles, etc., etc.
and that is what made Mr. Ross des­
velopment, begin to personify and dei­
He also knows what the conditions (tadpoles!) than to say that Jones in perate. And I repeat that if material­
It’s a good one to read and pass to a neighbor.
fy and worship nature’s forces: Sun, were in Christendom during the Middle the North end of town is taller than
moon and stars; earth, water, fire, air, I Ages and how and why these became Smith in the South end. I wonder if I ists have something better than Chris­
Mr. Ross can see this? I call upon tianity to lift the heathen, let them
until through centuries there are known as the Dark Ages.
materialists
to bring their evidence bring it out: Let them go to some immrntnnmmmmnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmmj
evolved great systems of pompous and
The deeper significance of the Pro­ that there is a gradation of animals land AHEAD of the Christian mis­
o tentatious worship.
testant Reformation and the causes up to man; I ca'l for the fossils from sionary and civilize the heathen, Will
Symbolic mysticisms, ceremonies,
which led to the same, are well known. the rocks and the soi1. If they have they do this? Hardly. Why ? ? ? If Church get her seventy-one milli n and for which they have not produced
magic, sacrifices, burnt offerings, vi­
It was a later outbreak of the same them let them produce them. They do any one who may read this debate will martyrs? Answer it, please. I know a single case of proof. 1 happen to
carious atonements and elements of
the record of the Catholic beast, hut know that evolution hus no foundation
substitution are indispensable ele­ old conflict between the same old Pa­ not exist, and men who are read on mention a case where infidels started please don’t cal1 that the Christian in fact. It is purely a theory, and I
ments. Men are actually seeking to gan power of darkness and the new the subject KNOW THEY DO NOT. a rescue home for harlots, or opened Church, and please meet the issue. dare to look the mun in the eye who
Ross knows it, if he is fit to be in a a refuge for the down-and-outs I will You might as well charge the doings
buy divine favor by rich gifts, or try­ Christian light!
culls me a fool because 1 will not ac­
debate
with a school boy. Haeckel be glad to get it. Does not the record of Mohammed to the Christian* (he
ing to placate the wrath and anger of
And the same old struggle is going
cept his foolishness, and say so.
of
Girard
College
show
that
it
takes
offended deities.
on still—and—must continue to go on said: “Perhaps the apes nearest to
believed in God) as to say that the
Then as usual comes the Tom Paine
Christianity
to
keep
up
an
institution?
•
Thus we find throughout the ancient until men shall be free from all bond­ man may be discovered somewhere to
true
Christian
church
did
what
we
all
sop.
It is amusing to find infidels,
world a rich and diversified fabric of age of fear and superstition; until cor­ show what the immediate progenitor Wedid have an infidel college at Silver- know the vice-rotting Catholic church cluiming Christian subjects, though it
ton,
Ore.
What
is
its
record?
Most
of
idolatrous worship; each system serv­ ruption, greed and poverty shall be of man was.” In every relic of man,
has done. There is nothing to your is not strange—they need them. Wash-
ing its own gods and goddesses; each overcome; until justice shall be estab­ in every fossil of every living creature, the leaders of that old infidel club have point, Mr. Ross. We are still after ington an Infidel! The man who prayed
bearing its own magnificent temples, lished in society; until the Golden Rule beast or bush there is not the faintest b'own their heads off with shot guns. the old harlot of the Seven Hills. The in the snow at Valley Forge; the man
its sacerdotal orders and mystical shall rule! until in the Unity of the evidence that it ever was in process of The record shows for itself. The Bible prophesied that such would come. who was a strict member of the Epis­
cults, its own mysteries and sacred Spirit the world shall have found the evolution. Such evidence is not found, school? Gone where everything that Read the seventeenth and eigtheenth copalian church, and attended with
shrines; each temple and god having lasting blessings of Peace; until the it does not exist. Infidels have searched rejects God will go. We had another chapters of Revelations.
his mother. Yet Mr. Ross says he
materialistic school or information bu­
its own priesthood and hierarchy.
love of human brotherhood shall unite all earth for it, but it does not exist,
was
an infidel! Lincoln an infidel!
What was the chief function and the peoples of the earth in the promo­ and materialists know it. When they reau at Forest Grove, Ore. What be­ Then he says that Infidels have made The man who compounded a harmony
came
of
it?
It
danced
and
cursed
and
this world worth living in, by fighting
purpose in and of all this religion?
tion of the best interests and holiest bring it we will have a little more re-
of the New Testament books. We could
What share and part did the people hopes of life through knowledge of pect for their views. But bald asser­ snarled itself to death, to the relief of the Bible and God. That is certainly loan infidelity these men were it not
tions from the haters of God will not a self-respecting community. All he news. I wonder how Mr. Ross will
have therein?
truth; by the power of love.
for the disgrace, and have plenty left,
go down; we demand more. Now while has said about the church dwindles to account for the fact that Christianity
What influence did :t have upon the
but Mr. Ross has stated what he aught
nothing
when
I
remind
him
that
Chris­
it is in my mind I will give Mr. Ross
is increasing in all the world. The
people? What were the conditions of
tianity consists in doing and being man who launched the Chinese Repub­ to know is not true, and if he asserts
the people ? As we judge a tree by its
To do all the good you can is to be something he can get hold of, and will
it again I shall prove it so he will
fruit, so also must we judge religion a saint in the highest sense. To do ask him to come on with his answer: what Christ taught. His word said: lic was a Christian, who studied in wish he had not made the assertion.
“
He
that
committeth
sin
is
of
the
dev
­
WHAT
HAS
KILLED
EVOLUTION
America.
Yuan-Shi-Kai
said
to
the
by the influence it exerts in the life of all the good you can; this is to be
il.” Infidels know this; that is why Christian missionaries: “In regard to And now as to Tom Paine. First he
man.
really and truly spiritual. To relieve AS A WORKING CREATING METH­
they
club a hypocrite so mercilessly. your presence in this province I will­ was not educated, that accounts for
The people had no part in this mag­ suffering, to put the star of hope in OD IN THE UNIVERSE ? Things
Let those who snarl at an organization ingly testify that it makes for good, his statements on the Bible. He saw
ical and ceremonial worship.
the midnight of despair, this is true are not created that way now? If evo­
go
to the New Testament and find and that the teaching you impart is no schooling after he was thirteen.
The effect and influence upon the holiness. This is the religion of science. lution ever was the order of the Cos­
what
a man must be to be a Christian, calculated to help all who embrace and He was dismissed from being excise­
mos it never could, in the very nature
people was most demoralizing and
man because of fraud (debt-dodging).
of the case, change. But materialists just as Mr. Ross expects me to go to fo'low its precepts. Moreover, its ef­
degrading.
The accumulated experience of the always speak of evolution in the past Darwin and Haeckel and Huxley for fects upon our people are BENEFI­ He was discharged the second time
Man and humanity were of little or
world is a power and force that works tense. Mr. Ross refers to the lowest evolution. Let him be as honest as I CIAL.” So they are. Try them, Mr. for the same reason. He was dis­
no consequence. Humanity existed in
missed from the Congressional Com-
for righteousness.
heathen, the Negroes, etc., to prove am. I am taking his authorities, but Ross. That is the testimony of a
passive submission and in slavish sub­
m'ssion because he exposed hit office.
What is Religion.
I
dare
him
to
take
mina
What
would
that men do change. Marvelous! Does
heathen to Christianity. But Chris­
jection until at last the entire struc­
Ho made a bitter attack against Wash­
he mean by that that the worst forms become of his man of straw if he test­ tianity is increasing! It follows that
ture collapsed beneath the weight of
ington.
(By the by, Ross, which infidel
ed
the
actions
of
an
apostate
hierar
­
A judge should either sit beyond the are headed for monkies and other ani­
either the world is getting worse, and
its own corruption and through intern­
was right?) He conducted a tobacco
chy
by
the
pure
gospel
of
Christ?
reach
of
prejudice,
in
some
calm
that
mal forms? Does he reverse his own
evolution is a fake, or that Christianity
al weakness.
shop at Lewes. On his return from
The chief purpose of Paganism was st owns cannot invade, or he should be theory of evolution in order to say What do I prove? Simply that the is good and infidelity is a curse. Mr. France he became proffligate in mor­
Catholic
Church
is
an
apostate
thing,
Ross may choose his horn.
and is the formal, lavish and idolatrous a kind of oak, so that before any something for it? If Negroes and bush
als, and last, hut not least, and worst
men are the products of evolution, the the fearfull falling away beginning far
worship, adoration and glorification of blast he would stand erect.
of
all, he PREACHED AS A METHO­
No,
I
do
not
dread
science.
I
love
Interviews.
process beingdownward, what becomes back in the first centuries. Has Mr.
its gods and deities! and—the eleva­
DIST
IN LONDON. That is enough
every
line
of
investigation.
I
love
ge
­
Ross
never
heard
of
Luther,
or
Huss,
of his claim that evolution always
tion of the priestly class to supreme
to choke even Olin J. Ross himself, if
ology,
botany,
astronomy,
and
all
the
or
Wycliffe?
And
by
the
by,
“
Brother
”
works
from
the
less
perfect
to
the
per
­
A great man does not seek applause
rule and power!
rest. They all revel God to me. What he is a lawyer. This is about the «lean­
The only and inevitable result was or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks fect? How true it is that when a man Ross, who was it that died in the In­
I treat lightly is the silly notions of n est thing Paine ever did. All of this
quisition,
and
at
the
stake?
CHRIS
­
the complete subjugation of the peo­ the road to happiness, and what he as­ starts with a false foundation every
lot
of mud-m:xers who tried to teach you will find in the International En-
TIANS!
What
Infidel
ever
died
for
effort
to
establish
truth
in
his
theory
ple; moral and spiritual bondage lead­ certains he gives to others.
what
they do not believe themselves, cyclopedia. Read it.
principle?
But
where
did
the
Catholic
will land him in difficulty. He goes
Voltaire.
ing bo degeneration, decay and dfeath.
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