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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, TH lR A D iY , MAY 27, 1897.
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ease perceptions is true of the aud pour you out a blessing, that
memory and our other faculties, there shall not be room enough to
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receive it? Are not the windows of
It is fully as absur o say
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the sensation produced in the brain ¡Ug8 poured out upon religious O
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by tickling the bottom of our gatherings? If not, how can such
feet lives forever as it would scenes as that in the People’s 1 ab-
to sav that any other of the effects ernacle be counted f o r .
produced bv our surroundings on
We account for the wonderful(?)
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. scenes described above in the same
that organ are to continue after the nianner tha( wg rfo fortheMene8 jn
the organ itself has been destroyed. nie Chinese Joss-house. It is high
And so we conclude that time handed deception and fraud on the
and money spent in attempts part of the priests, and emotional,
superstitious fear and ignorance on
to prove the existence of the the part of the strong(?) men and
mind or a spiritual part of man nervous women. A discussion on
“separate from the body is on a par the circulation of the blood or how
with the time and money spent best to teach children a love of the
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trying to invent perpetual motion truth would have been much more
entertaining and profitable.
and that those earnest ones who
silly m anifestations were
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tee aud must either turn their atten unable to work our people up to
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such a point that they are willing
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showing the wave of emotion that famines; but how can w e preach
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The writer, a mini.ter of th e goepel, here endeavor, to prove that the
Bible teaches what is false, what is immoral, and what is obscene.
in that church was none the less a
the people under the guise o:
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