THE TORCH
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REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, lx>7.
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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
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Words of Grant, ‘Keep the church
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inning his work for me present in
the wesf, with a lecture at loledo,
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city. Brooklyn, and other cities, nn-
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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
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which are new to us, localise our
cold snap, up to January 20 we had portance of destructive secularism
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ex|»erience is limited and the oper­
a d verv nnld winter, Ihen it began
would be folly, but it is high time
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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
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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.
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a rin u - lib e ra l —colder than any previous day m
auspices
or r „ various
nntrai
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extending hack indefinitely. With der the
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25 years. Today was 6 degrees The mind cannot subsist on the
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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
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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
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Editorials” It is a short talk by
You cannot atiord to forget the
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daughter, who died a few days ago.
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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.
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i ~ and generally concerning current I caught a cod the other day.
the flower garden
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bravely. As sure as we are born, representing
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He never had been there before
by the kindergarten class will be
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so must we die.
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- 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
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give a timely lecture each Sunday
entertainment. A good m u sical ©
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1 nPV lY
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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
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Louie Rauch will be home from along.
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were all excellent, but the most de-
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Salem next week to enter the Liberal
You will find running a reform Ju o n r c v tio
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s rving of mention, was the duett
University.
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rendered by little Marie Keller and
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Not
a
very
large
attendance
at
also
find
that
even
good
intending
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Y. P. S. S. C. Saturday evening on Freethinkers will forget you. The T a le n t..............................................
cti v d five recalls.
JoEBERT.