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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1897)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1897. A Plan for the Evolution of wins the field, school-boards every- omnipotent, everywhere; yea, it is oents. And guess what they did Freethought and Wisdom. where will be composed of the within every one born on the face with the money. They turned it into the University building fund. Continued from «ixth page. wisest acientific thinkers; and our of the earth. — . ideal teachers and curriculum will True knowledge is dawning on When we have such boys as this ■villages n.adv f r 1 realized in free schools of all the mind of reason and as it grows, we are sure of success, Rah! Rah! Each society could pay - to 2 a year grades including the kindergarten reveals indwelling divinity—that Rah! for their 52 lectures (one for each and college, throughout every state, light which is all comprehensive, SECULAR NEWS. Sunday) the lecture to be sent to and thence over the whole world. It must and it will make itself their orator a week before its Suu- and compulsory attendence of every known and fill the whole earth, We wouhl like to hear from some Jay, to he learned ami delivered by child. Instead of hazing, praying, Some may despond, because refor- of our friends regarding the press .urn, as capably as possible. After and craming with a mixture of mation or regeneration does not go fund. tne lecture, each orator could prob science and dry hones, the youth with a rush, although we notice a Secularists of the State of Oregon, ably sell a few copies at 5 or 10 will climb the ladder of wisdom, wonderful progress, since Free- remember the convention of the cents apiece (half to go to the developing character and garnering tnought and science entered the Oregon State Secular Union to be bureau, thus helping to make the practical, beneficial knowledge at battle-field for freedom and happi- held in Silverton April 3-4. lecture bureau whole financially if . , ii * every step. ness to humanity. But supposing necessary.) 1 he sales would not . . , . . , • . . , . 'The entertainment to be given at , » . .. But hist, tracts must sow the it is slow; it is better to go one foot, lie num erous, but every editor , , , , , , , . . . . , ,. . , Liberal Hall Sunday evening April , , , i i i seeds <>f doubt broadcast and give in the right direction, than miles would buy a copy, and every local , , e 4, promises to be the best of the L \ xv i . l i glimpses of the needful. Ihencul- taking you no nearer the goal of paper throughout the length and ® 1 . . .. . kind ever given in Silverton. A : . , . , , , , , tivate by lecture bureau and press, your aspirations. If every family breadth of our land would publish J . -e • • • i i • i urn in splendid program is being arranged. . . . . . , . . till the growth of scientific religion in Oregon would take your Iorch every scientific lecture during the , ,, , , ..... , , Nettie A. Olds will return to / . ... i m i , shall hear a bountiful harvest and for one year at least, more prosper- week after delivery, and lalmage’s . J ’ ,, , Silverton next week and after rest iwva the luv famishing iam iciiuix millions into ¡ •» <11 > | >1 11 t*SS . «i , • x xu i x . feed ity y and A* happiness would be sermons would go into the waste- . . . , \ • . . ,, , , i i •. l fully developed strength of body achieved, than either McKinleys ing awhile, will make a lecture basket. Tor how long would it be \. T, . . . .. , . . . . ... «i and mind, and wise enjoym ent of or B ry a n s ad m in istratio n could tour of the lower Columbia river before every city and village would _ ’ Jr; •71 . country. People in that section life. E liza M owry B ijvj - x . bring about, in forty years. want its share of these lectures Box 76, Brooklyn, Conn. Excuse me for failing to stick to ' will please arrange for her lectures. written by the great men of wis the text, but I can’t help it. A s1 Prof. Vinter F. Cooper, the blind dom, especially for the instruction Tin* method outlined by the above sure, as we are in need of a practi- phrenologist, delivered four lectures of the masses, every Sunday a dif article for distributing Secular liter- cal religion, we need practical poli- at Liberal Hall last week to large ferent one; and how long before the ature and furnishing lectures for away with “parties’ in and enthusiastic audiences. He is scientific Sunday meetings would societies to be established in every > . . . . . . . . , . . , t t • i a denom inations m churches. 1 he very logical in his arguments and he crowded and the churches neighborhood m the United Staten, tyranny ..f party is the most dan-j showed how moral education had empty? meets our hearty approval. gerous enemy, freedom can have. been neglected and children Now, he that would teach the Of course as the work progresses It leads to frightful despotism. I taught to obey through fear. people, must study and write his it might he thought best to change wish Miss Nettie Olds could come He made some telling blows at lecture, then go himself lecturing (he lanH 8<)mewhat to meet the de- here again having received so from city to city, reaching a few d . r b :n(y conditions i t niU(;h ,jews from her, that I feel orthodoxy, showing Ihe crimes that . ; \ , * mands of changing conditions, but that I could receive bushels of light had been committed in the name of great audiences, but not the masses we Mieve the gvneral QUtline more and j thankful,y will rece1pt Christianity. He had a large num everywhere, and wealing himself jus^ a8 nertr |>erfect as it can he, for any comfort in my present ber of Christians at each meeting, our, with his travel and \aiying j and we will do all we can to help helplessness, as I am one of the who, no doubt, heard many things accommodations, the excitement of thig ,loble effort t() bear frnit “Blessed are the poor ” unpleasant to them but the logic lecturing and the tire of business! There a ,.e many things to think * maternally, K. E^ L anqe . was so sound they cannot dispute details. If oOOJ trained orators, in ftnd much work to be done in UNIVERSITY NOTES it. We request our readers to ar as many places give his lecture, he order to get this great educational range for lectures by Prof. Cooper can keep bis health in his quiet plan jnt() working order and we We are ver.v much in ueed of a whenever they can. He is a Free home, and continue his researches bope tbat Secularists every- new dictionary, thinker. there, or take such trips as iie needs wbere will write us any sug- Keep the library in mind. Let to obtain more knowledge, and gestjolls that they may have; every friend of our cause send us a S IL V E R T O N write another lecture for one Sun- and by ad workj,,g together we good book and encourage others to day ol the next year. It would n,.,y be Hl>le io get the great wheels do the same. B A R B E R SHOP. pay the ablest men to devote their of progressive Freethought into ac- Some of our Christian friends life to specialties then; and what a tivity. have named our residence House of wealth of henelieial knowledge! Com m u n ic a tio n . Knowledge. We accept the name A R T IS T IC W O R K . Would he spread before the people and Impeto demonstrate that we are everywhere and every Sunday! E ditor I orch of R eason : A W hen you w an t a Good Sm ooth Shave worthv of it. How much better than to hear a copy of the I orch of R eason , re Or a F irst Class lla ir-c u t Call On second rate preacher expound his ceived, and after reading it, I must Prof. Vinter F. Cooper visited our ideas on a verse of scripture, Suu- 8aY tout any intelligent person, school and gave us many ^kind E. E. T A Y LO R , day after Sunday, year after year! "’ho gets acquainted with your words of encouragement. HeVays © © © © © Such opportunity to he heard once “ T orch ” will like it. It is well that our management is just right S il v e r t o n , - - - - O r e g o n . by the whole country, and get well named. “A light, kindled to sup- from a phrenological stand point and that he never saw students paid for it besides, would tempt ldy want of the sun, ! ! ! our ablest senators and judges into A light, which reveals God is God, more interested in his life. Mr. R«»y S. Wiles has drawn deepest thought, and preparation an(l when it floods man’s conscious- the of »me thoroughly valuable lecture, ness makes him a Christ (chris- a perspective view of colored w ith “ P E R F E C T IO N ” Ingersoll, Francis E. Willard, Mrs. tian), a truly begotten son of God, proposed University building. Dyes will m ake beautiful C ar Livermore, George T. Angell, Neal (or daughter of God. if you please,) W. L. Jones, the Silverton photog- p e ts and R ugs, an d , u n lik e Dow, McKinley would each seek a many shut out the light, declaring rapher, will soon have a half toniL o th e r dyes, th e colors o b tain ed will not w ash out or fade. hearing, and the “grand old man,” that (4od has gone away, leaving us engraving ready for us and we will They are sim ple and econom Gladstone perhaps would nor refuse in darkness; that once he conde- treat the readers of the T orch to a ical to use, and th e new “Per And who would not go to the scien scended t«> reveal himself to us, view of what the building will be fectio n ” C otton Dyes are e sp e tific Sunday meetings to hear their in Jesus Christ and since then, when erected next Summer, cially ad ap ted for Rugs and Rag ablest Bc urer for the people? hoth the father and the son have Last Saturday a number of the C arp et m aking. Probably vou oouhl select others as left U3 strictly alone, and that there University boys did a very manly For Sale By All well or better qualified. Darwin. no further hope for light or help act. A widowed lady whose wood D R UGG I S TS . Huxley, and Agassiz are gone, ami on this side of the grave. But the pile needed attention was surprised GUISS <& SON, 1 do not know who the great scien- light of God shineth forth for ever to see these stalwart youths come W holesale Agents. lists are now, so I could not intro- and ever. Nothing can quench and saw up the whole pile. They SILVERTON....................OREQON. duct* th* ir names that light. The darkness may not did not wish to take pay, but the When this scientific Religion | comprehend it; yet the light is here kind lady made them take fifty Old Rags