THE TOUCH OF REA. ON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1897.
help at first but keep at work on
Xow if this Christian statem en t least use their reason and if no
.th e foundation. S o n e m ay be is true and wo believe it is, we are real, h<»nesf, opeu-day-lipht proof
come weary or |»r‘»v<*ke<i because rapidly drifting m to an ecclesiastical can he found for such assertions
T h e O nly S m i lak P a p e r P c b l h h e o on
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t h e P a c if ic C o a st .
»»me of their pet i I as are rejected slavery that w ill m ake everv Infidel, they will not lx* insane enough to
P ublished W eekly by the Oregon State b u t o th e r s w ill la b o r o n , a n d t h e every
L ib eral, every Secularist, lie captured by a little m ystery.
Secular Union.
foundation will
be com pleted, every Jew , every S piritualist, every
The protestants do not use the
strongan<I beautiful.
one who does not believe in the or- .drove m entioned tricks to cap tu re
J. E. HOSMER .................. E d ito r
P W GEER
M anager
Amid so m uch clash and din o thodox religion either a hypocrite | their devotees b u t th e well known
contending forces our I ttle arm y o r ;»n o u t 'a s t .
F o r th e love <>f m ysteries of the miracles, the holy
E n te red a t the postoffice at Silverton, a p p e a r s s m a ll, b u t we h a v e th
and bun* I reds of other
lib e r ty let u s »w ake b e fo re it is too ghost
Oregon, as second-class m ail m atter.
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weapons of modern warfare w lie l .o !
absurdities are used with great
others are using the oi l spears a id
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
success hut these are g radually
$1 00 war clubs of a heathen anc» s ry
One year, in ad v an ce....................
liaising their power and as S ecular
fiy s te rie s .
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Six m o n th s in a d v a n c e ..............
T ruth is m ighty and it will prevail!
ism, which has no m ysteries what-
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T hree m onths, in a d v an c e ..........
In clubs of five or m ore, one year,
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ever, gains ground, the false priests
\\ bile honest people h a v e been
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B idding for P o p u la rity .
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Some organizations, like some s tu d y in g flow to m a k e th e w orld
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p e c u lia r ty p e or m in d th a t reaches
N o tice!
individuals think first of what they better by delving into the tru th s
out a fte r th e se th in g s w ill g ive place
A pencil m ark here denotes th a t your should do to please this set or th at of nature, priests have been work
su b scrip tio n will expin* w ith tin* next
to strong, reasoning, active minds
n u m b er. You are earn estly requested set, and then declare their principles ing to get control of t'"* people so th at can not be deceived by such
to renew so th a t you m ay receive tin* pa- accordingly but tins is n n ho iest as to be supp >rted in comfort and . .
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per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have de
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ease and receive the h o n o r an d
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cided th a t it is best for all concerned nor the best way to do.
th a t we do not send papers longer th a n
The right way for an individual adoration, of which all rulers are
M ind.
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered.
to
do
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to
ask
himself,
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great
T his will p revent any loss on th e p a rt of
Perhaps nothing has beer, more
tin* U nion and we will know ju st w here really
believe to In* the honest e x te n t for th e priests’ study of the
we sta n d . We request you to semi us
prolific of evil than ignorance of
tin* nam es of Secularists who m ight be t r u t h / ’ an d th e n to declare bis dead lan g u ag es.
come su h scrih ers am i we will mail sam principles according v 11 > hi i t fer if
M ystery is a g reat lever for liti ing the n a 'u re of the m ind. The mind
ple copies.
be stands alom*. Acting on ibis the ig n o ra n t into awful subm ission, is thought to be a m aterial sub-
T H U R S D A Y , M A Y 27, E. M . 297 principle the )reg«»n State Secular and L .tm ami Greek not being 'stan c e by some and th a t it can
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Union in the late conventio 1 very p ra e ic a l or at least not as ini- HX’st separate from the h -dv
W e W ill C onquer.
adopted its E thical Basis and now, portant for gaining a livelihood as belief gives rise t» nearly all th *
believing th a t we are right and tha other branches, have therefore been ideas of sp irits which have cursed
Some people are slow’ to grasp the right is far in »r • apt t > w n in neglected by the masses and are ' the world bY draw ing aw ay our at-
the idea of what certain causes will the long run, we stand fir uly Up »11 som eth’ng of a m ystery.
1 tendon ho m the practical things
So we hoar th e fishers of m en !<d th is life t<> th e vague, d r u n k n
produce. They are obliged to see this foundation ami no m att r i
the effect and can form no idea j we j () loose the help of s i n * w • .sc m um bling Latin while the poor 1 im aginings of a future life, separate
of future
results.
Ib is class 1 principles are opposed to secularism suckers, charm ed with the shin in g : bo,n ^he 00 l \ or in connection
of
people are not worth very a few ()f
will hold the fort u itil m ystery are hook«*d and used t t i / ' i h i a refined, sp iritu al body,
much in helping a great cause. 1 others who believe as we do, lea n ¡-atisfy the an g lers’ cannibal a p p e -, ^ ° w d we can show th a t m ind is
They are too slow, and so the pioneer of Olir work and then we will make tite for power.
what we honestly believe it to be,the
work of any m ovement m ust be things move.
Latin words or words from any tuanitestation of m atter and not a
done by those who can see the ef-
YVe w ant the e a rth and nothing foreign or d *ad language, th a t are tnaterial substance that has any or
feet when a cause is presented to |ess> Others m av I mg for ¡1 a> e . fam iliar and can he used for em -j
of the general p ro p e rtie s o fm it-
their m inds. They have reason and may talk of heli hut we will pbasis or to b etterex p resso n e’s ideas U r then we will nave done away
and from past experiences of them - confine our labors to the uphuild- i. e , t«> make his m eaning clearer with much of the nonsense about
seb u s ami others, ami Loin
the ¡ng of happy homes here and lig h t to his hearers or readers m a y b e the happy hunting-grounds and
general ,.atur»* of the causes, th e y | ^() a finish every »thought that to the advantage of all concerned the other heathenish
idea
of
can read th«* effects. Some may is opposed to home, p u rity ami hut nothing seems more absurd to
reincarnation.
look upon tin work of the Oregon happiness during th e o n ly life us than 1 h * ridiculous use of speech
Seeing is p art of the mind.
State Secular 1 nion as a sm all about which an y th in g is known.
when the hearers or readers have YY hat is seeing? The light which
thing because the beginning is
now av of find: ng out what is m eant. is reflected from an object produces
sm ill and unassum ing, hut if these
R eligion in P o litics.
But th * K »mao C atholic priests an effect on the retina of the eve
short sighted people live long
are not the only ones who put their and the optic nerve is thus affected.
they
will
l>e astonished
at
YY hen C hristians right each other fioeks into a com atose state an d fhe brain in tu rn is affected
the wonderful effec's of the little we o ’teu learn things t tat, "ther- th'*n r'»h th m of time and sub- ami the effect is called sight,
? e ds of tru th that are being sown in wise
w u d be hidden.
I hr stance. There arc those who take a fh e brain is n aterial an d a t death
th is far \Y’estern State.
American Sentinel is christ an hut dead word and ap p ly it in such a dec i n loses and th , elem ents coin-
1 I p * rig h t conditions m ust exist it is op • »sed to th a t 1 ng* ela-s of wav a* to m ystify th e ir poor victims bine in o th er firm s and the effect
f »r un\ thing 'o succeed; here t Kristians wh" arc w o rk in g con-j as on<* might use a toy to a ttra c t ean not exist as a sp irit for it is
we have tin- rig it conditions and tin u a lly to unite church and State. a child whih* having its photograph not a th in g -b u t an effect only,
out work will m atch 011 to a won-, I In* following appears in t he issue taken or as John Sm ith did the Of course the effect on others may
derful, »ml gloi iou^ v icto ry . I»,-f.»i»* of May 13.
¡compass when try in g to control live on and on and our seeing may
c »turn n c iig a hard pr >bl**m, a
it is an u 11 ori u 11 •.te statem en t the Indians.
fak e for exam ple th u s live forever, e. g. if we should
stm lnnt should read it over very of tru th th at is m a le by the the L it.n word ego which is the see a wonderful n atural phenom e
c a re fu lly arid h *c » no acquainted ptesident of the Portland (Oregon) first person singular of the person- non and describe it to a child, the
with its every - I t i i l ; and -the branch of the ‘N ational .Municipal a l pronoun i. e., it is the same as picture thus form ed in the ch ild ’s
problem of organizing a powerful League,’ in the follow ing:—
the word I in English, and see how m ind m ay he retained long after
arm y to drive out the dead religions
‘ The church m em bership and ¡1 is used to m islead those who are we a r e dead, and in tu rn , given to
ami Vii • superstiti »us of the past, following is sufficiently nurner »us easilv guile«!. Instead of u sin g others and thus kopt alive for ages
and estab.ish in their pla>v a io impos.* its t iu i 'e d will upon any ifijg word a< a pronoun the m edium and ages; and we believe it to lie a
religion of s *i met and m ora.it) , political or m unicipal party in any or jiriest uses it
it as
as a a
noun fact th a t in this wav every thought
has been carefully studied and the city
t ... United St , , e ,. I, e ...hl,
talks just ns though It was a and every action o f'o u r lives have
foundations are being laid, slowly if united an<l .let rn d n ed , set up a seti|. d fuel that each and every one an im m ortality. E very th in g as a
a t first hut surely; every stone politic 11 or a m unicipal ideal and of 1 he congregation had an ego in cause produces an effect and every
or plank is carefully exam ined and compel poli’icians . f ev«*rv party to m i and ha egos are all about us. effect becoming a cause produces
everything »hat is dam aged by conform to it.
Thes • ego-eranks like the other an o th er effect hut this is the only
the <lrv rot of ancient religions or
The u n f o r t u n a t e th in g ah at, it is priests are sim ply deceivers or very kind o f im m o rtality th a t there is
the worms of hypocrisy and fraud th a t th • ‘c .u r h me nleuship and „„„d, deceived and we hope th a t any proof of w hatever. YVhat is
are rejected.
fo llo w in g a t* being wheeled into h.*f«»re being deceived by such bait true of seeing is true of all the sense
YVe must not exj»eet too much line to Hccomppsh t s very t 1; g.” t he readers of the Torch will at perceptions and what is tru e of
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