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.
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wisest acientific thinkers; and our of the earth.
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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
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bring
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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 >
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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day after Sunday, year after year! "’ho gets acquainted with your words of encouragement. HeVays
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Such opportunity to he heard once “ T orch ” will like it. It is well that our management is just right
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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,
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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
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well or better qualified. Darwin.
no further hope for light or help act. A widowed lady whose wood
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Huxley, and Agassiz are gone, ami on this side of the grave. But the pile needed attention was surprised
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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
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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
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