TH E T«>RCH <>F REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1697 establishm ent of every Secular the “ nail holes” we are obliged to God has given to some people, Sunday School, the delivery of investigate still fu rth e r and find We recently w atched such a per- every scientific and m oral lecture, out for certain the cause of the form ance until we became sick The Only Paper of Its Kind. the p rin tin g of every S ecular essay holes and the incentive th at led to with disgust. Three persons who P ublished W eekly by the Liberal I ni- or song hook, the honest faithful the foolish m u tilatio n . All frauds answered to the call of the operator versity C om pany, in the In tere sts of C onstructive, Moral Secularism . work of Secularists everyw here will w hether political, religious, or were honest investigators, hut they in time accom plish wonders, hut social should be at once stam ped . were dism issed from the stage after J. E. H osm er,....................... Editor P. W. G eer,....................... M anager men and women of thought and out of existence, and every one being grossly insulted, and left the action, w hat a m ighty power for who cries out against deceit should operator to fake the people with E n tered a t the postoffic«* at Silverton, good will the Liberal U niversity he. he encouraged ra th e r th an con- his class of confederates. One of Oregon, as second-class m ail m atter. W hen once we have the building dem ned. There has often been the very interesting(?) tricks per- com pleted hundreds of students too much “ blow ” about nothing, we , formed b y this “g re a t” hypnotiser SU BSC R IPTIO N R A T E S . will come and g rad u ate, ami what j will adm it, and things of m inor im was to place one of his men with One year, in a d v a n c e .......................... $1 00 5C a power these young cham pions of portance h a v e r e c e iv e d a t t e n t i o n his shoulders on one chair and his Six m onths in a d v a n c e .................... T hree m onths, in a d v a n c e ................ Science will have in overthrow ing th a t should have been directed to feet on an o th er and then break a In clubs of five or m ore, one year, / •» th e false and pernicious doctrines other things, hut it is safe, yes het- large rock which was placed in a d v a n c e .......................................... Money should be sent by registered of theology. When the grand ter than safe, for every F ree th in k er lengthw ise of his body. Of course le tte r or m oney order. liberal m inded W ashington, Jeffer to cry out ag ain st all and every the usual ceremony was gone son, P aine, M adison, and their fraud th a t he discovers, even if it j through, th e cataleptic being warn- Notice! colleagues, founded this govern be in bis own household or in ed in deep tones of th u n d er to keep A pencil m ark here denotes th a t your m ent and framed our constitution, his own ch aracter. M istakes may his muscles “ as hard as iron—a-s su b scrip tio n will ex p ire w ith the next nu m b er. You are earn estly requested ' they left a precious boon to he p ro he m ade, hut we should use the h-a-r-d a-s i-r-o-n!” etc. and to fto renew so th a t you m ay receive the pa tected and im proved upon by their best ju d g m en t we have and go many it appeared like a wonderful per w ithout in te rru p tio n . W e have d e thing, hut aft'-r the show was over cided th a t it is best for all concerned descendants, hut religionists have ahead. th a t we do not semi paper« longer th a n been a t work, and in the nam e of Now one of the greatest one of the “ doubting Thom ases” th e tim e paid for unless h o ordered. TIiis will p revent any loss ami we will their god practically united church frauds outside of th e su p ern atu ral ¡dem onstrated that anyone could do know ju st where we stan d . and state, until today m illions of religions, th a t the editor of th e the sam e thing in a perfectly We request you to send us th e nam es We hold th a t of S ecularists who m ight be om e su b dollars of the people’s money is T orch of R eason sees w ith the eye norm al condition. scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies. tied up in costly god-houses th a t of his best judgm ent, is S p iritu a l the people and especially children ism, hut for all this every S p iritu a l should not he led into error by THURSDAY, DEC. a, E. M. 297 are used to still fu rth e r rob the people and m ake fools of their ist should he our friend and we these c h a rla ta n s f<»r it only b efo g s children. Shall we forever subm it should he every S p iritu a lis t’s friend ami arrests the growth of th e mind. Mind M urder. to the high-handed robbery of p a y as we ce rtain ly are. The one thing ; The wrong ideas im pressed on the Our correspondent from W ash ing billions of dollars to ch ap lain s th a t the world needs most is fre e-! Ini nds of ch ild ren , in regard to the ington, D. C.,says that the com m it- of A rm y, Navy, United S tates and dom of thought and when men can , nature and phenom ena of the m ind tee of m inisters and laym en which S tate Legislatures, while the people extend to each other the warm hand ¡„ silly. unexplained, so-called held its meeting in W ashington, are too poor to pay the public of friendship, no m a tte r w hat their m ind reading is very injurious and has ju st com pleted the work of school teacher half w hat she earns? beliefs are, then will the world he hinders the onw ard m arch of tru th . preparing the in ternational Sunday Must the little homes of the w ork gin to develop. I t is only the Every Secularist, w ho w ishes to be School lesso n s(C hristian)to be used ing men be sold co n tin u ally for narrow m inded who condem n others considered a reform er, “should put for six years from J a n u a ry 1, 1900. taxes while the grand church and for their opinions or for th eir mis- his foot dow n” on such nonsense W hen these letters are approved by parsonage go un tax ed ? And all takes, ami if this be a m istake we and not allow him self to take it th e representatives of the European this th a t the children and childish hope you’ll th in k none th e less of aw ay u n til his good common sense «Christian churches they will be of men and women m ay be tau g h t the us for we are honest in th in k in g says “ all rig h t” . Now, no m atter ficially announced. The lessons dam nable lies of old Moses and th a t it is right. Of course theos w hether we are right or wrong in provide for three and one-half the silly m iracles of the “ latter ophy, in our opinion, is another this, we are your friends, reader, y ea r’s study of New Testam ent day sa in ts”. We have the power foolish thing, and then come for we are try in g to do good and if -characters and two and one-half in our own hands to stop this ac m any things under the nam es VVH raake m istakes it’s no more years devoted to Old Testam ent cursed fraud in a very sh o rt tim e, of m esm erism , hypnotism , e tc ., t han you do in some things, and if characters. The course will open and the longer we let it run the Volumes could be w ritten in sup- we a p do our best we will soon get with a study of the life of C hrist, firm er it will be fortified behind port of our ideas, but we can only a t the tru th of these im p o rtan t which will continue for eighteen C hristian-m ade laws u n til nothing just touch tbis subject this week. questions and the w’orld will grow m onths and the Old T estam ent hut the “ shedding of innocent W hen we read the account of mes- better and better series will open with the story of blood” will redeem the world from m erism and hypnotism in the E n •creation. its corruption. For th e sake of cyclopedia B ritta n ic a and see what Jottin gs from Jefferson. W hen we think of th is com m it th e children, for ourselves, and for the S tan d ard d ictio n ary says and t e e of sixteen men deliberately the coining men and women who add to this our own experiences; I “ No m an has a n a tu ra l rig h t to p lanning the m ind m urder of m il are to carry on the ever b rig h ten then apply all the reason we are com m it aggressiot s on th e equal lions of innocent hoys and girls, it ing light of civilization, we should c a p a b le o fa t present, and then pass rights of an o th er.” according to all the I o Tbe i(lea ¡R )jte u „ ,ounded m akes us sick, and our sym pathy build now, and build on a firm and judgm ent goes out to the poor little fellows, lasting foundation. witnesses we can sum m ons, w e |th a , on e n te rin g into society we who will he compelled to go Sunday conclude th a t if one person is idiot give up an y n a tllra | rjg b , „ after Sunday and he bothered and enough to do ju st as some de- 1 ... . , Frauds. term ined operator tells him to, why , Ur C m !? . aVe n<> worried alm ost if not quite to the he’ll shut his eyes when told and on <>"r rel.gmus opinions. verge of insanity, try in g to believe The C h ristian s’ su p e rn a tu ra l , , ... , more th a n opinions in phvsics or the absurd m iracle and m ystery doctrines are not the only popular dance around or a n y th in g else, of „ ’ • geom etry. stories of the old and new spook- frauds of our tim e, and sometimes course. I z-v e . .v “The im pious presum ption o f books of the C hristian fanatics. those who are free from the One of th e q u o tatio n s in the . . . . . „ ... I legislators and rulers, civil as well I t makes no difference w hether religious superstitions are sadly s ta n d , a rd j d ictio n ary says, th a t one , . . , . . . as ecclesiastical, who being them - this com m ittee believes in the les “ taken in ” by other fakes th a t are m ust a neuratic 1. e . , a person . , . • •i . ,, .... . . selves but fallible and uninspired sons or not, the effect on the fully as false if not quite as in with an unstable equilibrium , in 1 m en, have assum ed dom ination children will be to arrest th eir jurious. There are people who can order to be hypnotised and we m ental and moral growth and we calm ly look on and know ingly see think that this is only a very polite over the faith of others, setting will still have with us m ental weak both young and old children led way of saying th a t only fools will ‘^eir own opinions and .males of lings, insane advocates of bloody into believing all m anners of silly do just a s'th e y are told. But ig- ‘ h .n k .n g as only tru e and infalli- ... v . ■ . 1 (ble, and as such endeavoring to rites and the hypocritical money things th a t arrest "the growth norance on this subject is taken . * 1 r , , .. .4, impose them on others, barb estab- changers. O, friends, c a n ’t we <>f the m ind, w ithout crying out advantage <»f, and people sit with . . . . , . . ’ • j ,1 , ,, lished and m aintained false relig- have more help to save these bovs against it, but we are not able to wide open m ouths and swallow the • a .. . . ® , ... . , r , . , ions over the greatest p a rt of the and girls from the clutches of this hold our peace. We are “doubting foolish antics of a faker s confeder- .w orld, and through all tim e.” - black devil of Superstition? The Thomases” and even when we feel ates. and th in k w hat great power [Sentinel. Torch of Reason ✓ II f