THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, .JUNE 3, 1397.
d ollar-and-get-one hundred ideas
of some m en is sim ply ridiculous,
Traitors! Cowards! Slaves! Cling
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don’t let this stop you. Read from
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E d u c a tio n vs. S a lv a t io n .
some songs, have a sociable tim e
O re g o n , aw se c o iu l-c la ss m ail m a tte r.
and hold the fort . We have a few
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rewarded by seeing the little seeds is giving object lessons in the streets
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They join only to break down you have sown grow to beautiful of Portland.
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subscription will ex p ire with the next j here are only a lew of this clas flowers of tru th and love.
along clinging to a rope with
n u m b e r. Y ou a re e a r n e s tly re q u e s te d hut the dam age they are capable
DI course our lecture work is one hand and sw inging the other,
to renew so th a t you may receive die pa- i . , .
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per w it bout in te rru p tio n . We have de- 1
doing to our work with their necessary and just what we m ust keeping time as they m arch and
cided th a t it is best for ali concerned tongue a n d p en
is very g r e a t, have, but we m ust learn th at then
sing. <>n the other side is one of
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th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. I n s t e a d of tak in g right hold ami are other things necessary as well. their mem bers dressed as the devil,
This will p re v e n t any loss on th e part oi w o rk in g to b u ild op, th e y te a r dow n YY’e m ust have earnest, faithful
long tail, horns and all; and as they
th e Union and we w ill know ju st w here i
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we sta n d . We request you to semi us e v e r y t h i n g th a t o th e rs b u ild .
W )U local workers.
m arch the devil m otions for them
th e nam es of S ecularists who m ight he- w ill hear them s a v th a t liberals
to come over the line, but, none
come sultscribers and we w ill m ail sam - I
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pie copies.
, ‘ an n o t organize, th a t we ought not
A H e a v y Load,
seem willing to go to the devil, in
to 1 ry to build Secular churches
public at le a s t. From an other
H i t R S D A Y , J U N E 3, E. M . 297 an(j S unday schools, th a t a person
Il we were orthodox we would q u arter we hear the report of a
ought not to be obliged to pass an pray! But not believing in praver
salvation song th a t strikes us in three
T r a it o r s .
«'X am ination and receive a license we are going to tell our friends our
places at once. It seems ap p ro p ri­
before lecturing for the 0 . 8. 8. U., troubles instead of laying them at
ate, laughable and sad. H ere are
The great principles of Secular-J that the ethical basis is a creed, the feet of a im aginary savior.
the main words of this gospel hym n:
ism have been belittled and dragged th a t free lovers and sp iritu alists
The load we have undertaken t > “ There’s Hies on me and th ere’s
in the slim e of waiitouness and c r - 1 ought not to be debarred from carry is more than we can lifi alone,
Hies on you hut there a in ’t no Hies
rupt»on by those who have joined lecturing on our platform , etc. etc but with a little help just now the on Jesus.”
our ranks on account of our attacks Now what we want to do to m ake work will move on to a grand sue-
Ju st as long as such inform ation
upon C hristianity, but now th a t our work a success is to go rig h t cess. \Ve are not joking as the
as this is regarded as p aram ount to
we condemn other crimes against ahead, pav no attention to croakers following facts will show: One the facts of science, ju s t as long as
society besides the great crime of do the very best we know bow and reason we closed our first y ea r’s
money and tim e are sacrificed to
hypocritically teaching superstition <)iir organization will grow in work a little early was our desire
teach these orthodox ideas, to the
th o s e
Whose a d h e s io n to some num bers a n d in power. “ E ternal to keep from getting the school into
neglect of those things which p ro ­
p a rtic u la r corruption is stronger vigilance is the price of lib erty .”
debt.
mote prosperity an d genuine, la st­
th an th eir love for Secularism , will
YY’e borrowed money to pay for ing happiness, ju st so long will pov­
prove traitors. The only question
Local W o rk e rs .
the press and th at ($138.50) will he erty, ignorance and crime stalk u n ­
in regard to our successful erection
due in a few m onths. It should he checked through our land. Our
and m aintenance of tIo* U niversity
H eretofore our S unday Schools paid at once to stop interest. Then young men and women should be
and establishm ent of Secular Sun-
have m ostly been established rig h t we should have at least $2000 more educated in the n atu ral sciences and
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altei some enthusiastic lecturer before we start the University build- in the principles of m o rality and
we left enough honest, true secular-
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has been to a place and pictured m g; and again we have to pay an$ 80 the work of all the Salvationists
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the horrors of the teachings of the Pa per bill in a short tim e and also would die out for lack of m aterial.
w o r 'o lu m a n itj.
orthodox S unday schools and the the expense of typos etc. Now we
\Y e believe th at there are enough great l»eauties and benefits of the c a ” f*° a ,l we can hut we need help
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people u ho aie w illing to sacrifice Secular S unday schools.
W hat A little money now would save us
to r the cause to put the work rig h t | these lecturers have said is true but ’»uch em barrassm ent and we could
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on its ^ t and make it the greatest oftentimes the work has proven a <*» better work, putting in our J " j . ™
o b je c t
lesson the world lias ever failure soon after the first excite- time at something besides worrying
had. A few of us her« are devot-
ing our whole tim e w ithout pay to
th is w o rk . DI c o u rs e some who
have no feelings of p h ilan th ro p y
will say th a t we have some selfish
mot,vc, hut th is is not true and
whenever some one will take hold
merit was over. Now the principal
reason for th is is that m any tim es
th e parties who take hold of the
work do not understand
th e
sacrifices th a t m ust be m ade in
order to keep a S unday school run-
ning; an<1 the opp, J , i(
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of our p a rt of the work, who can alw ays met
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< o better, we will he glad overcomes
by
them
reform ers,
soon Privilege of
and our cause
to et them, and will help ihvni all has been injured instead
of
we can. The most discouraging bei„g strengthened.
Now there
feature of the whole thing, and we can be a successful Secular Sun,lav
W.ll admit that sometimes we get school started in everv place where
a li'tle “ down in the m onth.” is, there a r e a few secular L if they
th a t people who have talked much can understand how sim ple a th in ,
against the evils of superstition it is. The m ain thing is to meet
and the great need of constructive
work and who are abundantly
able to help, will only give about
what a postage Stamp is to us Of
course we J g,ad J g e . anything
hut the selfish, grasping, p a y ./
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^ °w liberals, we w ant this work
done right. Are we going to have
^ ,e needed support or not? YVe
would gladly do this educational
w ork> which >« so much needed,
«lone if wc could; we are not
begging but ju st asking for the
every SundaU nrom ntl'v V T '
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friends the enemy would say, “ I
told you so,” and of course would
think that our failure was on ac­
count of our principle being wrong;
but ir this
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people
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th e.r superst.t.on
will g.reed a n d -gnorance to hudd L.beral
W1 University yet, but if anything
never give up the work, but work-
happen
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University at Silverton fails for
T0“ do something for the cause
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sometime T
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more favorable, for the people can-
r ii ait) in the clutches
of the priests nor always think
° f *heir “8tUff” tban they do
of doing good,
But w hat’s the use of such vain
speculations? The University is
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of the motion make it manifest by
doing something to help it along.