M M TUE W K H F REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1897 to he S'*nt as soon as called upon. W ishing you every success in The latest development of Chris vour field of labor, I rem ain, tian Science m ust appear to m any Very fraternally, outsiders as very rem arkable. The J . J ohnston . founder of this sect and its leader, X'ictoria. B. C. Mrs. Mary Raker Eddy, has just announced to her followers in the Queries. United States and Canada that they are enjoined “not to teach a student If an existence necessarily implies C hristian Science for oueyear, com a creator, who made (iod? W hat mencing on March 14, 1897.” To was he made out of? Isn ’t it easier this command she adds th at a new to believe that all organic life is volume of her own, just published, the result of of n atural selection is the heat m eans of prom ulgating and evolution than th a t it was all the faith, and then says: “The made at one mixing. W hen did B ible,‘Science and H ealth,’ with time begin? When will it end? ‘Key to the S criptures,’ ami my Was God in a good business when other published works are the only be made the Devil? W bat will be proper instructors for this hour. come of idiots after death? C hrist It should be the duty of all C hris ian friends ‘‘win re are you a t? ” tian Scientists to circulate and to Does nature wait until after a sell as m any of these hooks as they person is dead to punish him for can.” Those who disobey this com violation of n atu ra l law? Z. m and are told th a t they will he liable to lose m em bership in the On a Firm Basis. church. A nother order is given, th at, when her “Science and H ea lth ” Dear friends: is read in church, the title of the 1 have been receiving I he Torch book and its au th o r are to l>e a n regularly since it began publication. nounced only once; hut this calls Our cause has at last been placed, attention to the fact th a t “ Science where it all the tim e belonged, by and H ealth ” is treated very much the declarations of the last con in the sam e way as the Bible, and vention. Placed on the solid is, apparently, put upon a basis of foun Jation of a m oral basis, if we equal authority. The autocratic will but be tru e to ourselves and tone of these orders leads to the our cause, we cannot fail to have a query whether a female pope has great influence in shaping the arisen in th isco u n trv . O r is itto h e destinies of the hum an race, for assumed th a t Mrs. Eddy is a sharp progress and happiness. business woman and has taken We need no longer occupy the m eans to secure for her new book partially defensive attitude, which the largest sale possible? In any we have kept so long. We can now event, these orders are astonishing wage a fight not only against indications of how one of the most superstition but against every other liberal of sects can be made to yield violation of reason or n atu ral law. obedience to the autocratic com It is not necessary to rem in d m and of a religious leader.—C hris Secularists th a t we are building, tian Register. not for the present alone but th a t Willing to Help. our teachings, we hope and believe, will bear th eir legitim ate fruit as Editor Hit ch of Reas -n: long as time m ay last. If this were Please set d me sam ple copy of not. so o u r’s would be a weary the Torch of Reason as I am anxious labor indeed. 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