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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1897)
THE TORCH of REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, lx>7. -=a«xTr T- No Fares Outside of Nature. S ecu lar New s. Events may occur now an they 1 mve ofien o.cured in the past, transcending the p '»t experience of men, hut it should he understood that which transcends experience B. F. U nderw ood h as been lec turing in Ooio. At \\ au-eon h t spoke b y request before th e G ra n d A rm v of th e R epublic, on I he Words of Grant, ‘Keep the church . . *, ’ ” Pin H'Üû S tu '' inning his work for me present in the wesf, with a lecture at loledo, "V he ’ spoke January t ..... ti, , he where Ilth i has gone east where he opens in ,, on “The irpi Gos- .. Boston, at Paine Hall, . T pel of ’ Emotion and , Ignorance, T lectures ,x * there l .... February. 14th. . lie . February ’ qi x rip is an_ again 21st. Me is an i . ' i Vannbpqfer nounced to speak at .Manchester , T Providence, -1 o r I., Aew Vxx.v v.uV N. , H., R. ¥oik ’ lu iu rp itii.« city. Brooklyn, and other cities, nn- un- account of colds hut th o se who did attend had a real nice time. At the meet’ ng to-morrow evening a good program will be given. The question for debate i- ’’Reanlved, That the Chinese must go. ’ personal cares and wants in this life are so great and so pressing that we lose sight of many things we should attend to. Wishing you good luck 1 remain. Yours truly, C. C. R odgers . Chicago News. C o n stru c tiv e .Secularism . We should expect events and man - To the Editor:—This city is just E d . T orch : A writer in Secular testations every now and then, Work says, “To minimize the im now expet iencing a very severe . 1 which are new to us, localise our cold snap, up to January 20 we had portance of destructive secularism • I ’ l . / ex|»erience is limited and the oper a d verv nnld winter, Ihen it began would be folly, but it is high time ® ations of nature are infinite in tli'dr to cet c< w gei r >l< and this morning it w as to insist on constructive secularism variety. The universe is not in the 20 degrees L below zero with an icy J being promulgated in a far more same Condition any two moments. decisive and widespread manner blast from the . northwest that kept Change is the order of nature. I he everybody indoors who , was not than it is. The two must go to - condition of nature at any given obliged to be out. lesterday b , / was gether, the one being the necessary time is the product of all the modi —according © to the weather bureau corollary of the other.” fications of pre-existent conditions This is sensible and to the point. 1 1 - a rin u - lib e ra l —colder than any previous day m auspices or r „ various nntrai , n , extending hack indefinitely. With der the . . 25 years. Today was 6 degrees The mind cannot subsist on the , / the evolution of the higher forms associations. dry husks of negation. There must colder. We are in receipt of a telegram of lif*, new vital and mental phe A greater amount of suffering be something to supplinient criti nomena have occured, new exper from President Chapman, of the prevails here now than ever before. cism and destructive work. Your iences have been added to the psy* State University stating that he The bureau of charities reports educational institution at Silver- chic «1 life of the world and new will be unable to lecture here on 8000 fainilies“in dire want.” x\<ld to ton seems to supply the need, by af manifestations of mental power the dates advertised. this thousands that are equally fording an opportunity for the ac have been exhibited; but it has A concert and entertainment will nee(jy and j , a^ tjIe public never quisition of secular knowledge, been found that every new discov be given at Liberal llall Sunday hear of T(ien ad(J tQ th js the un_ free from the contamination oi sec ery made, for instance the prop evening February 7. A splendid buffering endured by dumb tarianism and superstition. Will erty of the needle, has enlarged our program has been arranged consist anjniais and then tell me what use the freethinkers of the Pacific coast view of the cosmos—of the natural ing of m any new novelties not G<)J .g <w h e re is he a t? , He has sustain the practical effort to do the presented before. A tableau will had an army of hired help on thi s best kind of constructive work in order. The ongoings of nature are never he given representing a beautiful ,__ A £„_ ------- ----,,.v who the interest of the rising generation? planet for many centuries truly seen to indicate an antago flower garden. Ibis will be have been working tooth and nail A V eteran F reethinker . nistic force outside and indepen a novel entertainm ent well worth through all these generations to dent of them by which they are ar attending. Admission only ten a |lO||8|, Six S m iles an(j s,jjj t jie manufac rested or diverted from natural cents. ture of sinners goes on. I wish St Peter (reading card)—Mary channels. The cosmos is what the Y weeks a<m we published a God would resign, lav oil all his Ann Swipes, age 48, Methodist. world indicates—an orderly un i notice that F. S. Matteson has hands and let us run our own Correct. verse, the power by which phe presented a Spanish Retriever pup world a few thousand years and I S p irit of M rs. S n ip e s— D e a r m e, nomena occur is immanent in ’he to the University. This pup is to think we would make him feel I feel so strange! Where da I sit? universe and its operations occur he sohi, money received is to go to proud o f the image he hears, St. Peter—Third row’ to the left from the forces within and not the University building fund. We According to its annual report just hack of the Baptist benches. from some extraneous agency, as would like to have someone pur- for 1896 the Y. M. C. A. of this Spirit—What! does the Meth has been imagined by theological chase this pup. It will go to the city owns three buildings and sites odists sit behind the Baptists? speculists in the past.—B. K I s - highest bidder and bids are now valued at $1,833,000. I don’t know (Firnilv) I don’t want to go in. derwood . in order. what their tax amounts to but A poetical young fisherman, w ho N ew s From P o rtlan d . Mr. Matteson also informs us hope to find out. had been summering along the that he will give a pair of Belgian A leading city paper that has no Sound contributed to an exchange We note with deep regret the hares, to be disposed of in the Sunday edition publishes each bereavement of Mr. and Mrs. Hick- same manner for the same purpose. Monday a column headed ‘Pulpit the following brief but brilliant bit of verse descriptive of his wander ethi'-r in the loss of their little A ..... f x Editorials” It is a short talk by You cannot atiord to forget the . . / ings: daughter, who died a few days ago. , . T ., i tt .n some more or less noted ministers “Along Rhode Island’s se a girt next The grief stricken mother takes entertainm ent at Liberal Hall x u ual. given liefore the regular sermon 1 he tableau © shore her loss very hard, hut hears up Suday 7 evening. xT r, i ~ and generally concerning current I caught a cod the other day. the flower garden . 6 J . 0 bravely. As sure as we are born, representing . , , . j , , ... . topics. It the ministers can be m- He never had been there before by the kindergarten class will be » . . . so must we die. J - duced to continue m this line and And wished to cod he d stayed one of the special features of the Last night we celebrated the . u give a timely lecture each Sunday entertainment. A good m u sical © * J away.” Lofrtvfv ihm r rAruonh 1 nPV lY l il V be hl1 memorial anniversary of the birth before they preach they may and literary program has been Professor: W hat is the funda of Thomas Paine. The Turn- able by that means to counteract to mental condition of existence? Verein of Portland, joined with us arranged. a great extent the evil effects that Student: Time. Professor: How in commemorating the event and might otherwise result from an University Notes. do you explain that? Student, very the result was a very large and en orthodox sermon. J. B. B. easily. How can a person exist thusiastic audience. The exercises Some of the boys are finding out went along very smoothly and sat that tobacco and’ mathematics do From the Editor of the M ountain if he hasn’t time for it? not go well together and have given Echo. We don’t suppose the man exists isfactorily. Mr. J. Kemp, read from Robt. G. up the tobacco. B oulder C reek , C al ., Jan. 25, who can tell us w’hether Eve stub Ingersoll’s Defence of Thomas Frank Forward, Harry Desart, — Dear sir:- I have just bed her toe or stepped on her dress Paine, while Mr. Heilman addressed Lora Ames and Alfred Down ate recejve(i the second copy of your when she fell.—Puck. the audience on behalf of the T tim students who have been obliged t«> pftper anj see by it that you have Money makes the mare go, steam ers. stay out of school the past week on been able to pay for your outfit, makes the cargo, and the sight of The selection rendered by the account of colds hut all will ,eturn would like to exchange with you the creditor makes the mango. singing section of the lu r n - \ erein to their studies soon. hut j think it my duty to give $1 N. A. Olds Lecture Dates. was very fine and was well received. Examinations this week. towards helping your enterprise The songs, duetts, and recitations Independence............................ Louie Rauch will be home from along. 5 were all excellent, but the most de- C a llis ...................................... »• Salem next week to enter the Liberal You will find running a reform Ju o n r c v tio 7-8 n C ity ................................ »» s rving of mention, was the duett University. paper an up hill job and you will C o b u rg ............................................. ” 9-10 12 rendered by little Marie Keller and M edford.......................................... 13-14 Not a very large attendance at also find that even good intending A shland....................................... A1 >ert Krumpf for which they re 16-17 Y. P. S. S. C. Saturday evening on Freethinkers will forget you. The T a le n t.............................................. cti v d five recalls. JoEBERT.