T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , JU L Y 22, 1897.
Practice as W ell as Preach.
The Faith of The Future.
Profane Jokes.
N . Ira n ia n ,
J , H . L y o n s.
JEHMAN & LYONS.
E ditor T orch ok R eason :
‘’The purified faith c f the future
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the 1 3 th ,
I enclose one dollar for su p ern atu ral and the m iraculously difficulties,” said the sky-pilot at
renewal.
I am well pleased with revealed, takes its stand on science, the close of an al fre-co discourse in
House, sign and carriage j a in '-
ing.
Paper-hanging and interior
th e T orch of R eason and think it To those who have been wont to Hawick M arket
Place. There ap-
Charges
a paper ablv conducted.
find comfort in an a ttitu d e of indo- peared to be but »me perplexed decoration a specially.
To preach is one thing; to prac- lent adoration and blind trust to- m ind am ong the listeners, a gentie- reasonable. Wo»’k guaranteed.
tice is another, and of the two I am ward a m ysterious unknow n, this m an of well-known sporting pro-
inclined to believe that to practice will, and m ust, seem a cheerless out- clivities. He said: ‘‘I si.»mid like S IL V E R T O N ...
is more difficult th an to preach, lock; for persons of inactive m ind to ask by what m eans Samson
To preach Secularism as you are find more satisfaction in the bound- caught the three bundled foxes
-itting about the co untry store, or less void of m ystery, and the un- whose tails he tied together, a ml s e n t
"in the club room, is much more challenging hoplesgness of contra- them adrift am ong t»*e P h ilistin e’s
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easy th an to practice it.
This is dictions presented as facts, than in corn, when it took the Duke o ’ Bucc
too much the case with C hristians, the clear definiteness of the most leueh’s hounds a haill day to catch
If C hristians would practice more assured tru th . Such will feel th a t, aue?” The sky-pilot wilted, lie W hen von w ant a ....
of the brotherly love th at they are bereft of su p ern atu ral revelation, either could not or would not an-
Good S m o o th S h a v e
c<»ntinually preaching about, th is they are throw n back into the waste, swer, but sim ply said, “ Let us
<)r a F irst-C lass........
world would be much better off.
howling wilderness of paganism , pray!”
H air-C u t
Now the object is to educate the which seems very terrible. But,
A clergm an, who recently called
people into th in k in g more of this surely, it is not so sad a thing to he upon a young w idow to c n d o le with
world, an d th eir d u ty tow ards th eir in th<* position of Socrates, Plato, h»*r upon the loss of her husband,
E E. T A Y L O R .
fellow-men. Secularists should re- A ristotle, E pictetus, and those oth* r placed considerable em phasis upon
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member the lessons tau g h t by earnest, hum ble truth-seekers who the proposition th a t the separation S lL V K R T O N ,........................................... OBKOOB
C hristianity and avoid the erron- fearlessly sought to penetrate the was merely tempo« a l, and painted
eous idea th at m ight makes right, riddle of existence, and to b ad in vivid colors the happiness o f
If you can convince a m an by w orthy lives,— lives th a t sham e friends unit« d after death. When
reasonable argum ent th a t he is those of most believers in revelation, he stopped for bre ith, the » »rrowing
wrong, you have com m itted no er- And, after all, we are in a much one heaved a deep sigh, and qum tly
L IV E R Y
ror, hut to try and force him to he- better position for solving the enig- rem arked: “ Well, I suppose his first
lieve a th in g th at his reason tells m a th an thev were. Between them wife has got him again, then.”
FEED AN D
him is not so, is ty ra n n y in its and us lie two thousand years o f ! »K indly sh u t the window In-hind
SALE S T A B L E
boldest form..
Above all things hitm an experience, richer ('ban any
said a bishop on one <><•,-anion,
Cor. W ater and Lew is
give us liberty of thought.
they knew, I wo thousand yearn <•!'; »and open it lieliind a curate. The
S treets.
F ra te rn a lly ,
philosophic th o u g h t and nliarpening Episcopal bench in lim ited in nuni-
Idaho.
M. P. G ifford . Of th e faculties of intelligence, and hers; I he suply of curates is ineX-
; two thousand years of education of haustible ”
Double R ig san d Saddle H orses alw ays
The
American
Church
ar|d the m oral sense. Much that was J
on hand a t th e lowest prices. A corral
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He put a penny in th e plat»
connected w ith th e barn for loose stock.
S lavery.
impossible for them , with all their
- Each - Sunday did - th is m an,
In fo rm atio n reg ain in g any kind of
To buy a m ansion in the skies
stock prom ptly atten d e d to,’ b y person
« it ,
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, .. labor, may b«*, and certainly is, nos-
\\ lien abolition was proposed it
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On the in sta llm e n t plan!
or lette r. Horses Boarded am i Led on
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sible for us. Indeed, it is onlv dis-
was C hristians who most strenuous-
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A “down S outh” c o lo re d p h i lo s reasonable term s.
lv resisted it; and in doing so they trUst> ,o8' ered l’-v ^ « '’(«hxntic su
opher recently remark»*»l: “ Life,
ent reached them selves in Bib| e l>e> '.a tu ra lisn ,,o f »mere hum an rea-
HARDESTY & MOODY.
my hreddern. am mos’ly made up
ground, and fought with weapons s“,n >” a Btlllle to llfe>th a t Pr*’ven” of prayin’ for rain an I hen wishiti’
off , . _ The Kree.
drawn from Holy W rit.
In 1853 us trom reaching by its m ean , a far B
the various P ro testan t m inisters deeper insight into the tru th s th a t thinker
and church m embers held no less give life its m eaning th an any th a t
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than 650,653 slaves in America. revelation ever offered.
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ter and sp irit of the Bible as well
as the abolitionists. If n o t, how bec* " 8e th " ' ‘ is no u " just
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and why not?
The Rev. Jam es tence to pnH’ch us from our enward-
Smvlie, A. M,, of the Am ity Presbv- ly intellectual and moral sloth, and
tery, M ississippi, is reported to place us in an equally cow ardly
We can fu rn ish th e following hook«
well bound in cloth ; good p rin t, sta n d ard
have said; “ If slavery be a sin, heaven of eternal, useless dalli- sizes, for tli«’ ex trem ely low pri e of
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