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 “ I shall he happy to answ er the As my subscription expires on will be one which, eschewing the questions of any one with religious P A IN T E R S . 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 ..... Artistic Work 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 ***** 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 ., , , ,, . . I. , . 4 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 , , ... , .. labor, may b«*, and certainly is, nos- \\ lien abolition was proposed it 1 I On the in sta llm e n t plan! or lette r. Horses Boarded am i Led on « . . sible for us. Indeed, it is onlv dis- was C hristians who most strenuous- ’ 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 ...... —- --------- than 650,653 slaves in America. revelation ever offered. * * No doubt they understood the let * * S hall we weep and m ourn ter and sp irit of the Bible as well as the abolitionists. If n o t, how bec* " 8e th " ' ‘ is no u " just ífS@áQÍ<g@á¡ 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 and advertising and apprehending ance? v irtu e will not do s o ! ” 60 re n ts each, postage 10 cents. Don’t tail to tak e a o v an lag eo f th is otter. slaves, with a view’ to restore them Origin of S p e c ie s................C has. Darwin to their m asters, is a direct viola- W h ere O ur L e c tu re rs Are. D escent of M a n .................... “ “ F irst P rin c ip le s............ H erliert Sja-ncer tion of the divine law; and if the ». „ 77 “ “ . . . i. . M ks . H osmer and M iss D e P katt . D ata of E th ic s ................ buying, selling or holding of a E A S T E R N OREGON. Em«-™.,’. E»»v. i i T i S arto r K esar,us ............ T hom as < arlyle slave, for the Bake of gain, is a , . . C aI»J>,...................................... July 18-19 H istory French R evolution “ “ heinous sin and scandal, then verily W a te rm a n ,....................................... 2 0 Discourses of E p ictetu s three-fourths of all the Episcopal- D a y v ille ,.....................................22-23 and P re se n t..............T hom as C arlyle .................... C has. Kingly • . . . . T z . i . or B y p ath tans, M ethodists, B aptists, and «.vim .......................................A.m.bio« ............................................. A utobiography of B enj. F ran k lin C ity ..................................... 2b Fifteen Decisive B attles of th e Presbyterians in eleven states of Canyon „ . . p,. , . P iairie C itv ,..................................... 27 World .......... .......... E. C. Creasy he Union are of the Devil. 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