THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1896. can we get them ? T here is only one successful way and th a t is through our Liberal U niversity. U N I V E R S A L M E N T A L L IB Do all you can and get others to ERTY. help. whom I had helped and who had deserted his fam ily at P rinceton, y . J . He was bound for E n gland. \V’e kept him here in th e mission till nearly two o’clock, an d then gOt him to write hom e to h isfam ily □ N E W O R L D A T A T IM E . O ur C h ristia n C aller. an(j confess his sin. Since th a t I have received a letter from him The Only Secular Paper Published on the •' -1 '.I*1 VVUJt.' *• ”1" ’1' ' '• a sen " which I have before me, post • m arked tlem an who was trying to arouse j‘Princeton, N. J .,’ and saying th a t enthusiasm at his revival meetings, Published Weekly by the Oregon State he was at home and had been by goading his intidelic friends Secular Union. freely forgiven. Last n ig h t I was with false statem ents of th eir do- in our office till two o’clock with - - - E d ito r, ings, called on us, and, as we are J. E. H O SM ER another m an—an engineer— who T h e D a w n in g . p . W .G E E R - - - B u sin e ss M a n a g e r, ever ready for a good natured a r came forw ard at our Gospel m eet gum ent, he found no difficulty in It is said th a t it takes all kinds ing two ¡lights ago. Almost every Entered M thè poitofftce at Silverton, calling forth a few of out ideas in of people to m ake a world, and this night I am kept here till one or two Oregon, as second class m ail m a tte r. regard to th e popular superstitions is often offered as a sort of an apol- o’clock, talk in g and try in g to of the day, but alas! the holy ghost . t , L , , v • . • 1 ogv for the ldiocvncrasies of others, help the fallen. I m ight tell you S U B S C K lP liu N H A TES. seems to forsake some C hristians J m any instances where b u t we m u s t confess th a t we can of m any One Y ear, in advance.......... .............f 1 CO i5 0 ; at the time they most need it and Six Month», in a d ............................................... not see ju st why a large part of boys have been helped, and some, T hree Month», in a d v a n c e ..... ............... 201 the poor old gentlem an became an- I feel coufident, have been fully In Club» of 5 or more one year, in edvarx e 5 grv, or at least much grieved and th e hum an fam ily should be so in Money should be »ent hy registered le tte r or different to the real honest tru th saved.” dem anded his h a t and coat in such m oney order. Now’ this, we believe, is a fair and its progress in the world as Ploa»e te n d uh the name» and adire»»e» of Sec a way as to have done credit to a th a t ularist» who are not regular subscriber». to he silent upon the great ques sam ple of the salvation robber chieftain, and, although we tions involved in the present strug orthodoxy offers. After a man has THURSDAY . . . . DECEMBER 24, E . M. 296 had been as p o lite and nice as poor gle between orthodox ideas and become m ean enough to forsake his infidels are capable of being, yet ideas of advanced thinkers, and fam ily and become as had as he is be indulged in a few expressions L ig h t A h e a d . yet, when we think of the past and capable of becoming, he is coaxed or th a t did not seem very complimen- the almost absolute necessity of frightened into saying th a t he be S ecularists tary to us ami our little stock of The children of many parents sm othering th eir hon lieves in Jesus and is, rig h t there have been a t a great disadvantage, knowledge. est opinions, we do not wonder an d th en ,sav ed . for th eir parents, n o t w ishing them Our Christian friend left us so The m an who was bad enough th a t the men and women of this. to be tau g h t superstition, have kept h u rried ly th a t we h ard ly had tim e whose brains are to leave his family w ithout a good them from the orthodox Sunday to begin our argum ent; but a few of ra ' ’ but off-shoots of their parents brains cause is m ean enough to pretend to schools and while other children the things th a t we touched upon 1 are different th an th e y would have believe and thus work himself back have been learning a little about m ay be of interest to our readers.. „ , , , • , into the affections of his innocent a 1 ... r , . been it th e ir p a r e n ts had enjoyed reading and getting the advantages l a answ er to the im p o rt as to how . / , . ; better conditions. It is one of our family, but if he had some cause of being in society, m any of our a personal god could be every where, duties, Secular fiieiids, to do all for leaving and w’as really a good poor little Secularists have been we discovered that he can be omni- we can to show' these indifferent m an, he would need no such rec left to themselves. But now there present just as Grover Cleveland and crafty ones the error of their om m endation to be forgiven. is light ahead. Our children are can i. e., in influence. V ery w’ell, This patching up a ch aracter to have the advantage, for while we leave the subject with the idea We should show th e evils of sup after it is rotten an d then palm ing the Christian children are learning th a t the om ninresc it idea is all a erstition and ignorance and their it off on innocent parties is like ta k a little about reading, and getting hum bug, for G rover is no more accom panying crimes which are ing an old w ater-soaked boat and false ideas about su p ern atu ral things everywhere th in neighbor S m ith’s being com m itted before their very after varnishing it selling it to u n in th eir S unday schools our little baby. W e ga ve our idea as to the or- eyes, and th a t one who looks on skilled parties as new, or ju s t a s ones will be learning about form, igin and developm ent of life but w ithout doing what he thinks best good as new. And di<l you ever color, how to use their lingers in our divinely tau g h t friend thought io prevent these wrongs a g a in s t his notice th a t it is the men who are m aking pretty ornam ents, how to it very absorb and substituted the fellow-men, is an accessary to the saved and sent back to th eir fam- train all th eir faculties; and our bible story of creation and tried to lies. Do you suppose th at such ef crime. older ones will be delving deep show how very foolish it would he There is much to do. The tw en forts would be m ade to get bad wo into the m ysteries of nature. fo suppose th a t a child could be tieth century is to see a great change. m en reinstated in th eir former Young and old will at the same taken care of by anim al parents We believe th a t m an k in d is to soon homes? tim e l>e learning those valuable les- and so excited did our friend get This crazy patchw ork is not see conditions as far superior to the sous of m orality th a t can only come that he would not give us a chance present state of things as our civili what we want. Men and women from m ingling w ith others and de- to explain th a t the process of de a bad m ay * become zation is in advance of our ances who have been bating the questions of right liv- velopm ent has been very slow and tors when they left the father-land better and we ought to help them ing. th a t, while a m odern baby could all we can, but they never can be of India. The fellow ship th at comes from not live perhaps with the care th at S hall we see the daw n of this h a p fully saved. In order to fully save w orking together in a great cause it m ight receive from a wild ape, pier d ay ? Look! T he rosy light al- people we must prevent them from will m ake us all better and wiser yet the fact th a t the babies of our ready illum es the sky, and a few’ falling, an d in order to do th is we men an d women. T his great work anim al-like ancestors were horn who have clim bed ’to the lofty | m uat work on a broader Plau tb a n is to l>e accom plished hy our Sec of th eir parents is enough to show heights of m ental liberty, can see skirm ishing around the edges and u lar churches and Sunday schools. th at they would he taken care t h e beautiful sun-rise. And listen! trying to pull back a few’ after they W hen the secular children who of. The babies as well as the par- Can you catch their words? Secu are already besm eared with the have these advantages have grown ents have changed. larism , U nity, Brotherhood of m an, filth of wrong doing. to be men and women they will lie The origin of language then oc- Better conditions, so th a t th e Love, Liberty, Universal H appiness, philosophers and will be w riting copied our attention and although young will not fall into error is A H eaven on E arth. books, lecturing, inventing and do- we w’ere allowed to give part of w hat we should work for, an d as ing ail those things th a t build up our views in regard to the simple Two W ays. far as those who feel th a t they our civilization and m ake men tit language of our ancestors and its have not done right in the past is The following appeared in Dr. to live; but the poor religious dev- subsequent grow th, our excited concerned, the words ascribed to otees will be clinging to their idols friend became very indignant and T alm age’s paper, the C hristian Jesus are very appropriate, “ Go and trying to save the world by repeated again and again th a t lan- H erald, Dec. 9 your wav and sin no m ore.” W anderers Reclaim ed. fitting th eir fellow’ men for an ini- guage was not n a tu ra l hut acquired We are not obliged to believe ag in arv country and to love, honor and th a t it could not have been Mr. D. Talm age M ershon, assist- anything, in order to lie fully and w orship the im ag in ary gods of learned w ithout a teacher and the a n t superintendent a t the Bowery saved; all th a t we need to do is to teacher was God. Of course in his Mission, relates the follow ing inter- th e ancient Jew s. Secularists, w’e need workers. \\ e excitem ent he forgot to explain esting incidents of the work there; live up to our highest conception of need lecturers aud teachers. How how God learned to talk without a “ I received a letter from a m an right. Torch of Reason t teacher hut th a t of course is a foolish of thought an infidel and we’ll get our w orthy divine’s h at and coat. Good bye, come again. We feel sorry that he became so worked up th a t he forgot to close th e door gently, as we love peace and harm ony; hut we must not ex- p,. t t - -mm-biE'/m. a follower of him who said: “ T hink not th a t I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace but a sword."