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
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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
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another m an—an engineer— who
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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 .
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S U B S C K lP liu N H A TES.
seems to forsake some C hristians
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b u t we m u s t confess th a t we can of m any
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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
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way
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to
have
done
credit
to
a
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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..
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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
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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."