T H E TORCH OF REASON SIL V E R T O N , OREGON , M ARCH 11, 1897.
Bible N et U nderstood.
U N IV E R S IT Y
NOTES.
SIX
S71ILES.
We have often heard the pessi
\Ye need another i prim ary . teacher.
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F i? irst * Youngster:
“ I ’ve got a
1 he oratorical contest will take new baby brother, what come from
th a t he was the son o fih e Holy place some time in April.
heaven last night.”
Ghost, then ask them what a Holy
Class work in elocution M ondays
Second
Y oungster:
“ T h a t’s
G host is, and they ca n 't tell you- and Fridays at 3:30 p. m
n o th in ’. My little baby brother
I .ike i he m inister instructing his son:
A nother student who claim s to went to heaven yesterday.”
“ Remem ber my son that God made
F irst Youngster:
(reflectively)
he saved from the use of tobacco.
everything ” “ Yes” says the son,
“ Pete, I het it is the sam e kid.”
< food!
“ 1 will rem em ber th at but father tell
Those desiring instruction in —[Life.
me who m ade God.’* There was a
Teacher.—W hy was Solomon the
question sufficient to silence «-very mu-ic will please call a t the U ni
wisest man in the world?
Christian and bible belie v- r in the versity building.
Boy—He had so many wives to
Mis« Sophia Wolf, our new
world. It was one th at never has
heeen answered and never will he. teacher, is proving a great acquisi- advise him.
Teacher [a strong m inded female]
“ Observe,” said the m inister to his i ion to our forces.
Subject v IU
for
debate next
F I riday
son “ with what beneficent design
0*^11 i is n
HUljrt
1 HUDdlT
HvAl X
I<1*1 y - Well, th a t is not the answ er in
the crane so fashioned in leg4, hill evening: Resolved, T hat D u rran t
hook hut you may go up head,
and feet as to ea eh iigh with ease should not hang.
i —[Good News.
[(ONT NUED FR( M SIXTH PAGE.J
h a v e it th a t w av, rh^y will tell you
m istic wail th at this is a “ lost
w orld.” A whole pyram id of theo
logical treatises has been built upon
this m elancholy supposition. Yet
what is the basis of it all? N o th
ing but a m ythological
fable.
Astronom y does not show th a t the
world is lost. It moves regularly
in its orbit, turns faithfully on its
axis. Physical geography does not
show’ it. W hatever its im perfec
tions, the earth is a beautiful hall;
and the Hebrew’ psalm ists bursts
forth into praise, as they contem
plated its wonders an d glories.
Science today is perpetually reveal
ing them. Nor does history or re
ligion show’ that m an is lost now’, or
tfiat he ever has been. On the con
trary , the area of civilization has
gradually been extended over the
W’orld; and, though it hears evils, it
bears more good. M an is g ra d u
ally rising to a higher conscious
ness. In other words, God [good]
is in the world, reconciling the
world to him self.—C hristian Regis-
ter.
and provide its means of .-ub-istence.
We believ eth at the young couple
’s gratifying to know th a t the
‘‘Yes” r« plied the hov, “ I think I who “ went forw ard” at the revival bible on which M cKinley took the
s e e th e b mefieenee of God at least t lie other evening would do better, oath is purely an American produc
ed far as i he crane is concerned, but jf fhev would study the n atu ra l tion; hut there is unavoidably
father, d o n ’t y ou th in k the arrange- sciences aw hile before taking a de- n,atter for regret in the fact th a t
mei t a ii'tle tough on the fish?”
cided stand.
° ’ iginal w ritings were doneelse-
Jcsus wrote no account of him-
The , arget shooting at our Y. P. wher<‘.— Ex.
s« li, of his b iith , p iite n a g f oi any
y q F riday evening was
Isaacstein: I sells you dot coat,
thing else. Not a line of what is very enj uy a LjH D annie Malloy, mine frent, for $2.10. You take
called the new testam ent is of his p
W. Geer, E lvin Ames, Walter him along?”
S ecu lar Societies.
own writing. I In; history
of him Sm ith and A ubray Wo hard were
Customer:
“ I thought
you
is a lto g e th e r th e
work of othei hUcce8j.f„| j,, rin g in g the bell.
did n ’t do business on S aturday. Mrs. E B. Moffitt Sec.......Metz.. Iowa.
people.
Tw o o f his historians,
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Isn’t this your Sunday Isaacstein ?” J. B.Vancourt,.........“ Newton
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Board
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eeting.
Mathiwv and L u k e, undertake to
Isaacstein [in
low. reverent Daisy Fesler,.........“ ... . Riverside “
B.C. Brewster, ----“ ....... CrescentOkla.
give us his genealogy Mathew says
At the m eeting of the executive tones]: Mine frent, to sell you dot Mrs. 1I.D. Burrows, “ Vancouver Wash.
that there were 28 generations from
not peesness; dot R. Sharpless.......... “ ........... Spokane“
hoard of the v Oiegon
State
Secular
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L c U i a r coat for $2.10
v was
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Dav'd to Jesus. Luke says th at TT . .
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Robert Carsner.......“ ........Wagner Ore.
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, Union in Silverton last Sunday those u,,b sh a n ty . —lu n c h
there were 4 3 generations and only
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present were E. L. Sm ith. J. E. Hos-j Goodman—“ W ell, P at, how are Edwin Johnson,__ “ ................ Yale “
two nam es io both lists are alike.
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Roxie Laughlin,__ “ North Yamhill “
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i j mer, M. 1 . Hosm er and 1 . \Y. Geer, von get-tting along?”
Ada Dewey,........... “ ..........Portland“
th a t is as near as these two could ♦
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come .» i t .
Now if one t-11« the *'«’ "**»»««>» »»‘ he secretary, J.
P a t_ » O i hod a good day lasht Maggie Daniels,__ “ ..McMinnville “
tro th I h e o th - r tells a lie, hut if ^ em P> w'18 " ‘!,d and accepted, and Soonday, a n ’ Oi m ade foive dol- Miss Lora Ames,__ “ ..........Silverton“
Mrs. W. McBride__ “ __ Medford “
Mrs. Nora Guiss was elected to fill lars.”
’hey both agreed that would not
Goodm an—“ W hat! you broke H H Goddard......... “ ......Talent “
tro v e it to b»* true. T ru th is a the unexpired time.
First Secular Church of Portlnnd, Clara
As there is much business to he the sab b ath ?”
Bailey,
................. Sec............................
uniform thing and as to inspiration
Pat,
[apologetically] — “ Well, first Secular Church of McMinnville,
and revelation, were we t" adm it it, transacted concerning the construe-
William Lambert, Sec.
it i* impossible to suppose they can tion of the University building, it ’twas wan av us hod t ’ be broke, do
First Secular Church cf Silverton, meets
was thought best to call a state con- yez m oind?”—Judge.
contradict tru th . Then in this ca-e
every
other Sunday, 7:30 p. m. Mr. John
vent ion to he held at Silverton he-
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< n ither
n e r the
« ne men who
w n«» wrote the
<m* gene-
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1 ih ne
a n k Timonious-
iim o m o u s— Hicks. Sec.
e neverena
Reverend s Sank
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ginning S aturday April 3, E. M.
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The Silverton Secular Sunday School
alogv are imposters, or else the O(._
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books ascribed to them have been .....
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n meets every Sunday in Liberal Hall, at
pi •
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m u hard
iia iu for
iui the
me good
goou cause
cause th
this
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convention
will
he
devoted
to
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2 p. m. You are earnestly invited to at
w ritten l-y other ¡ a itie s a n d they
11 u ,ln 111 10,1 ' ' 1 K ce\oe< to wj nter „ Miss E pw orth League
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mn<d ^ t s . i ^ a n d a l
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tend and help in our great work of ad
have been m ade to carry the blame.
vancing the cause of science and moral
m em bers of the O. S. S. U. should al .
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Yours tru ly ,
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tins winter, so th a t I can enjoy my ity.
J. E. H osmer ,
he present.
P earl W. G eer .
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Lora
Ames.
Supt.
.J oel M. B erry .
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holidays next sum m er.” The Rev-
President.
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Sec’y.
N ational Mi itarv H om e,O hio.
erend Sank Iim om ous—“ Ah, but,
E ditor T orch of R eason : E n in y dear young lady, S atan never
SECULAR N EW S.
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closed I send you a p »st office order iakes a holiday, not even in sum
Notice our list of hooks in this
for fifty cents for the T orch of m er> y ° u know.”
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John Diamond, Coburg................. 100
issue. If you see anv you would i.
ason six mouths. We received League
I know*; hut then, Satan John E Johnson, Vale................... 1 00
lik e to read , we w ill ba p leased t »
a sample copy and like it very
use<* lo
h eat.”— B altim ore Minerva Johnson “ ................... 1 00
J S Odegard, Crescent City, Cal...
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much. I here are m any Liberals i’ eWb*
P C Mosier, Homer, 111 ................. l 00
Mr. H . C. Pag», »f Z h ..«, has de- ¡„ this vacinity, but they are not
M r------------- , Silverton Ore........ 5 00
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“ But with regard to the m aterial
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to have the benefits of the Liberal lectUrer here now. We feel a deep w orld> we can a » least go so
U niversity.
W e are receiving interCBt in your University and far as t l d s - w e can perceive th a t
U n iv e rsity F und.
m any fitters from parties desiring w under how it will succeed. Yon events are brought about not by
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to do the sam e thing.
certainly have our best wishes, a n d insulated interpositions of Divine Previously
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A m an sent us five dollars to we wish we could send more sub- Power, exerted in each p articu lar E Van Vrankin
Frank Wilkins
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apply on the press fund this week sfantial proof.
| case, hut by the establishm ent of John
E Johnson, Vale................. 10 00
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g en e ra l law s.”— W hew ell.
G M Murch and wife. Coburg....
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Yours respectfully,
not m entioned. If a few more con
M rs . A nnie T ufts .
W J Dean, Talent.......................... 5 00
Dear
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Ore.
P C Mosier, Homer, 111................. 10 00
tributions come in like this it will
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Von Viesk.o Silverton............ 10 00
post office order for five dollars, I
swell the press fund to w hat it
John
Dahl, Silverton,.................
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E d , T orch —T he copy of the send for the Secular cause in Ore- J. R. Allen,
CincinnatiO............ 10 00
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