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 die 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."