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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1897)
1HE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1897. they have no use for prayer; they may be given to those who have no The business of m an on earth is N . J e rm a n , J . H . Lyons. being deadly enemies, cannot worth. to be a m an betimes. In yearning both occupy the same space at the It will not do to build on some to be an angel in heaven’ he be JERMAK & LYONS, «ame time, consequently the more church, for who will guarantee the come» a m isanthrope in his own home. P A IN T E R S . you m ay have of the one the lcs- ch urch’s integrity? Our country is a republic. It you will need or require of the i It will not do to build on a cun- was so m ade because our fathers House, sign and carriage p ain t other. Is e e th a t B rother M acdonald ni ugly-devised creed, for w hat has defied despotism ; it is so kept be x > p i u n u p i i g «mu n te rio r ing. P a aperhanging and i interior of the T ruth Seeker gives you a assent to m ystical phrases to do cause the sons love liberty more decoration a specialty. Charges nice send off in your grand Liberal | with m aking character? than they esteem em pire. reasonable. W ork guaranteed ’ ° -• .......... ■ * Ha ving seetded from the King enterprise movement. Wishing It will not do to build upon a doms of earth , win should we be you all the success th a t is possible. book tor who shall be the voucher am bitious for allegiance to a king- S IL V E R T O N ... Believe me yours truly. for the book’s au th en ticity ? Not doin of heaven? H aving repudi J oel M. B e r r y . ated the ihrone in politics, lei us one known only in the book. T a k e no authorities for tru th , not perpetuate it in religion. The True Gospel. Those who regard not traditions for tru th alone is authority. add m ythologies may respect some It is unsafe to im plicitly trust of those who do for r heir h u m an ity ’s ..... A rtistic Work "I cherish these words of the _____ M a rty r' President as a message another s knowledge and inten sake, esteeming their hearts as! better than their heads; also, let from the dead. They are to me an tions. It is nn»st ."hallow to p red i those who believe w hat they own " hen you want a“ " au th o rity equal to aud beyond the cate your own wisdom on a n o th e r’s they c a n ’t prove, not despise those G ood S m o o th S h a v e ignorance. It is stupidity to try to testim ony of prophet, priest or po who are skeptical o f incom patible Or a F irst-C lass....... defend your own proposition by doctrines; for. being therein true to tentate, for they carry their own H a ir - C u t your antagonist’s ignorance. He themselves, they are less likely to proof on their face— plain as axioms -C A L L ON- th a t says he cannot answ er the he false to others. of geometry: It is not altogether on his belief “ During the tw enty years th a t I other fellow’s objections, hut neither in trad itio n s and testam ents, nor E. E. T A Y L O R . have been in public life, alm ost can the other fellow answer him , !,y his faith in C hrists and creeds, ® ö Ö Q eighteen of it in the congress of the unw ittingly gives his own can th at the religionist shapes his life; S il v e r t o n , O regon away. if it were, the earth m ight ho more United States, I have tried to do I do not propose to live on the a vale of tears than the saints used one thing. W h ether I was m is to sing of. When there was more taken or otherwise, it has been the tailings of professors of religion, religion and less science in the plan of my life to follow my con lh ere is abundance of such fodder, world than there is to-dav, there victions, at w hatever personal cost hut the q u ality is detestable. And was also much more misery. L IV E R Y The temples th at the true thinker to myself. I have represented for professors of religion who presum e many years a d istrict in congress to fatten on the errors of ttie secu would build a re homes for the |>eo j FEED AN D pie, m ills for the m anufacture of lar people will find no lack of vile w h o se approbation I greatly de their comforts, and schools for in- i SALE S T A B LE soup ready served for a vicious sired; but though it may seem, per stru ctin g th eir minds. Cor. W ater and Lewis But it won’t assim ilate There are two things, at least,' haps, a little egotistical to say it, I taste. 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H orses B oarded and Fed on Let o reasonable h a t tue world wants is com to divinity, hut to hum anity. hie approbation, I should have bad term s. us build for the welfare of our mon sense and th a t Jived up to. com panionship.” . - fellow iv u i.n citizens r rath a u i e er r m than an 1 he Mmplvr you »ay a tru ll., the <he worship o f foreign conceit?, J ames A. G a r f ie l d . HARDESTY & MOODY. readier it will be grasped. “ My conscience is m y crow n, J he m ortal man who voiced this C ontented th o u g h ts mv r e s t ; The m achinery of theology has sentim ent spoke out of the fullness My h eart is happy in itself; My bliss is in my’ b r e a s t.” of his m ind a m eaning as noble as ground more m inds into chaos than there are stars in the sky. 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