T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , JU L Y 1,
swallowed the e h a le , it will be be-
cause Secularists have not yet
learned th at it i* about as easy for
a man to swallow a whale as for a
whale to swallow a m an.
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T houghts in a God-House.
I P HOSWEI?
E ditor iar,dly
‘heir ’»fictions are not eventually destroy all the wrong
P. W. GEER
Manager le,“M kind to those around them and th a t is possible for man to destroy.
A new m inister is to preach in
when w«* h a v e r a c h 'd the ro >nd n For you, dear reader, to study its
E ntered at th e postolfic»* a t Silverton, evolution’s ladder where all men principles carefullv, and then act the M. E. church this evening say
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are concerned with the wellfare of in aco rdance w til your best judg- a
all men then indeed will this life im-nt, is the wish of every true
And, thinking the advic
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good, we sally forth to the house of
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worship and lind th at the man o f
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G<>d who is to speak is a B aptist.
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This suggests the idea to us that the
Money should l»e sent by registered ca
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le tte r or m oney order.
1 hose poor unfortunates who
There is a cam pm eeting being different C hristian denom inations
have no idea of helping the work! held on the A biqua not far from are getting close together an d th a t
Notice!
to a better condition, we will not j this city and we u n d erstan d th a t Pr°hablv ¡n a
decades all, not
A pencil m ark here denotes th a t your
subscription will ex p ire with th e next now consider, hut we wish to show one hundred dollars was raised in excepting the Catholics, will he
nuinlier. You are earnestly reipie-ted our ideas in regard to toe right a n d one collection for foreign missions, driven
into one huge national
to renew so th a t you may receive th e i ai­
rier w ithout in te rru p tio n . We h a v e d i- wrong im pressions of those who ¡(am ple this with the fact th a t most church. Of course m any C hristians
cided th a t it is best tor all concerned wish to do good, tor we must all o f the contributors are in debt on think th a t this would be a great
th a t we do not semi papers longer I ban
that
am ong this class «.count of bar,I tim e s th a t th e vic,o,'-v and 8,1 il wil1 f,,r f,,("
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. know
T his will p rev en t any loss on th e part o f , t |,c n . a ,-0 m
whoRe In eth ()d g
more money we send away the though’, for, if we can get them t"
the L nlon and we will know ju st w hen
wrong
and
productive harder the times w ill become and combine, the sooner will this b attle
we sta n d . We request you to semi u- are
the nam es of Secularists who m ight be­
Tot-hem, their actions that this money is to he spent in be over. We believe th a t nothing
come subscribers ami we will mail sam - only olevil.
p e Copies.
ire right, hut. in the sense we are I teaching the poor heathen to lie- can now keep them from coalescing.
The p ro testan t denom inations
using the term s, th e y are wrong, lieve in holy ghosts, angels, devils
THURSDAY, JULY i, E. M. 397
because they are an injury ami not etc. and it m akes an absurdity will unite first and then it will not
a benefit to m ankind.
th at is p o s itiv e ly sickening; b u t be such a great step for th is com­
Right and W rong.
Now, although men do right at w h at w on’t su p e rs titio u s people do bination and the catholics to fin d
common ground on which to stand
Ever since man has had in ­ one time and wrong at another and when worked up by th e ir p riests.
While Secularists are building and fight infidels and mv infidelic
telligence enough to speculate in mir whole lives are m ade up of
regard to w hat is beneficial and right and wrong actions yet. we happy homes and schools for th friends a ssu re as we have been lied
what is d etrim en tal to the whole should study carefully the problems children of America, tlc s e fanatics about we will win in this b attle if
brotherhood of m ankind, there has o f our time and then act in accord are tax in g them selves to teach we will but unite.
But to get back to church. The
been a continuous war going on be­ with our best judgm ent. I bis is bumbuggery to savages who when
tween p h ilan th ro p ists and those the only thing an honest man can taugiit eb risd an i y will he like a choir m usic was good, but, as is
wlm ign iran tly worship self and do. It is the very best th at can h- friend of ours, who has lived am ong very often the case, the singers are
fail to see th a t the first concern of done, and although the world suf­ chi istmized Indians, claim t hey a re. m ostly infidels who are willing to
judgment and H e says they do not really believe, take advantage of opportunities
all men should be for the hum an fers from poor
fam ily and not for their own family reason, yet these higher faculties hut km»w enough t> p e ie n d t • be­ and the benefits of a free singing
to the detrim en t of the whole race. are developing and good is con­ lieve in ord« r to please their teach­ school. The word infidel is h ardly
ers ami receive the reward that the the right nam e for some of these
To illu strate: If each member of quering evil.
Every step an individual takes teachers give them.
singers however. The title anv-
a fam ily thinks of the prosperity of
If the American people are able, th in g arian would fit the case better
his fam ily i. e., his father and is in the direction of right or wrong.
mother and brothers and sisters in- ' here ,s
m iddle ground.
Let J we have no objection whatever to with some.
The prayer was a very solemn
st'-ad of first greedily appropriating us draw a line then and place on | educating and civilizing people of
all th at his strength and cunning the one side what we believe to lie foreign countries as fast as th eir occasion, being instruction to God
will perm it, and then patronizing­ right and on the other th a t which wild state will perm it, but to send in regard to his awful character and
ly helping those he has robbed, the we believe to he wrong, and by money th a t is needed at home to a few hints concerning our weak­
condition of the whole fam ily will com paring our ideas we may the teach them such hellish doctrines nesses ending with the usual piece
only ridiculous but is of inform ation th a t all was asked
he better and of course everv in ­ sooner discover the tru th and re­ is not
joice together in the happy results absolutely crim inal, and is largely in the nam eof hiftdearion which is
dividual therein.
the cause of our present financial still necessary in order to appease
So it is with the hum an family; which will be stite to follow.
We who agree in placing freedom crisis.
those who have sacrificed self and
the awful w rath of the old gentle-
worked for the upbuilding of the! °* thought-upon ilie right side and
If there are freethinkers enough man
race have made the whole world who believe in working for happier »’» the United S tates to build the T h escrip tn re lesson was the« xxx ix
better, and although they have conditions here in this life w ithout Liberal U niversity and support the p sa|nij which is suppposed to have
sometimes suffered from the greed reference to an im aginary one after T orch of R eason , we hope to be
w ritten by a m an after God’s
and narrow selfishness of their un- death, are called secularists and we able to educate a few of these poor own heart hut the reader seemed to
fortunate brothers, they have been wi-h to call the atten tio n of the deluded fanatics to better ideas and forg,.t t he sentim ent of hate ex-
happier and have Irecome irnnioitai wh le world to the consideration of prevent m illions of young people pressed th rein was contrarv to the
through th eir good works.
our ideas in regard to right and front lieing caught in the evil snares son’s ideas of things. “ Surely thou
To further illu stra te : k very wrong.
We claim th a t Mental <»f priestcraft,
wilt slay the wicked, 0 God. * *
young child knows nothing about hberty is rig h t; th at superstition is
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Do I not hate them , 0 Lord, th a t
helping the m em bers of its fam ily; wrong; that the true religion does
W hale.
hate thee? * * I hate them with
it cries when others have the head- !,ot consist in blindly worshiping
a perfect h a tr e d .” C o m p are these
ache, and cares nothing about how im aginary beings, hut in living up
From some rem arks of a Christian words with w ords supposed to be
much work it m a k e s sim ply be- to our highest conceptions of right. friend we should judge th a t we are spoken by th e son, “ Love your
cause it does not vet know enough
In
tact
Secularism is as regarded by the orthodox churches enemies, do good to them which
t<> t h i n k of o th e rs feelings. The Ingersoll
says,
“ the
religion as the Jo n a h th a t m ust be throw n hate you bless them th a t curse you
whole hum an race is the sam e as of hum an ity ; it em braces the over board and swallowed by their and pray for them which despitefully
tlu im liiid u al ami In for« written affairs of th is
world. * * I t great whale in order to bring us to use you and persecute y o u .” It
lstoiy >Hgan then» must have b«* n mean living for ourselves and each our senses and save the great ship seems strange th a t such a cruel
a Ume when m an was hr selfish as other.
* * It will put out the of C hristianity.
God, one who would slay those who
the lower anim als «re now
Even fires of eternal pain. It ia striving E verything is
possible
with could not believe in him would
to early iuatonc times we find that to do away will, violence and vice, Secularists, and if we d o n ’t soon have such a good son.
I atn o -t-m was very narrow a n d . with
ignorance, poverty, and dem onataate the fact th a t J o n a h . We m istrust, bv the m an n er in
but Very few men had Mich grand
ideas as Thomas Paine ex pre-sod
when he said, “The world is my
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coum ry.”
rnx P acific C oast .
Men with mirnls broad enough
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It has nom yateriea,
disease.
no m um m eries, no priests, no
ceremonies,
no
falsehoods, no
m iracles ami no persecutions.
S-cularism to us is the embodi-
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1897.