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LITTLE TORCHES.
By W. E Johnson
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I’O ’tC H OF REASON, SILV E R T O N , O REG O N , T H U R SD A Y , D EC EM B ER 9, 1897.
Broke up the cabinet meeting. He
then told Mose.s to let him alone,
t *,at *‘i8 w rath m ight wax hot
'!' e" " " i h «'-«■'"*u,ueevervlHKlv; bu.
P erhaps th a t would be true if re" " ” '1' ,l <i”‘l ,,f " b a t h e had prom-
oijch ©f
God got the tithes. The fact is th a t
the
the orients
priests get tho
the tithes. God
does not figure in the transaction
and gets none of the ducats. He is
s im p ly a stall to scare dollars out
of the pockets o f both rich and
poor.
eas©n
‘'g° : “ "** U,,d
niediately cooled down and “ re pent-
cd of the evil which lie bad thought
to do unto his people.” Then Mos
es took two tablets of stone on
which God had w ritten some testi-
nion\ taken before the com m ittee
on coinage, !Jnd started down the
x The C atholic church in these m ountain. Of course the cars were
United States m ust lead in the not running, and so be had to walk.
em ancipation • of the people from 1 lobably he was tired and cross
the present social and economic when he reached the cam p; for as
slavery.—[F a th e r T hos.J. Ducey, in soon as he saw the calf of gold and
his sermon in New Y ork, Nov'. 22.
the people dancing an mid in a
bile you are about the em anci
m aim er it will not do to describe
“ Keep th e Torch of Reason B u r n in g .’
pation business, why n o t strike off
(see E xodus xxxii, 25), he became
ecclesiastical shackles and begin bv
ju st as w ratby as God had been,
freeing the hum an m ind from the
sm ashed the tablets with ail the
slavery of the C atholic church?
testim ony, and jum pe.l onto the Is
raelites with both h e t.
After
Those who were unable to get off
to conference still have the privilege a w h ile Moses went up to another
of p raying for i t . — [ Richm ond cabinet m eeting and secon d d u p li
C h ristian Advocate.
cates of the coinage testim ony; but
Price, Ten cents.
ery true, and those who have the people noticed th a t ever after
nothing to eat still have the blessed he had a leaning toward jr e silver;
privilege of ‘‘praying for” grub, hut and Aaron said th a t after all, you
th a t is all the good it does. By can hardly blam e him, especially
the way, if God wants his barkers as God plagued the people about
to “ go to conference” why don’t he the calf (see Exodus xxxiii. 35).
The above shows the exact size of the little song book we'
provide a chariot or free railway- Now the moral is Ibis: it the car-
nave just com pleted. I t contains th irty -tw o pages. The sones
passes ?
had been running up Sinai at that
are set to fam iliar tunes an<l should he in every F reeth o u g h t
time, ever} bod} might have gone
aom « Hud biinday »cliool. Send us an order. Price, 10 cis *
up
to
see
God
on
special
train
s,
and
It is hard for us to look upon the
afflictive dispensations of G od’s the trouble about the train s would
providence as w e ought to do. We have been averted.— [Boston Inves
have known p e o p le s p e a k of the
tigator.
trials through winch it has pleased
..................................................................... E. M., 297.
God to lead them a s judgm ent for
their sins.— [B ap tist Outlook.
John P. G u ild ’s Lectures.
But the trouble is th a t God' has
g
no m oral sense.
He afflicts the
Jo h n Prescott G uild is on th e|R
righteous with th'* sam e generous war p atb in full feather. He spoke
S ILV E R T O N , OREGON.
portions as the wicked. “ The rain '•n “ G iordano Bruno, the Poet,
falls equally upon the ju st and the Prophet, and M artyr of Science, his
u n ju st.”
life, d eath , a r»d lesson for to d ay ”,
Enclosed f i n d ................................... D ollars
to assist in - th
before the Lowell, Mass., Liberal I ia
— e
Jesu s’ giving of th an k s when 1 e Assosiation the firs t Sunday in $ C o n s tru c tio n of th e L ib e ra l U n iv e rs ity a t S ilv e rto n , Oregon
fed the four thousand with seven October, repeated it to the Coin-
’
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loaves an d a few fishes indicates
Y ours fo r Progress,
the spirit in which the c h u rch ’s mon Sense Club, N ashua, N. H.,
problem of supplying all nations November 21, and is to speak f
with the gospel is to he worked out. there again on “ Bible G uide-it
—[U nited P resb y terian .
boards” December 12. P atriots It C u t th is o u t, o r copy It; enclose
w h a t you can, and fo r w a r d to
Jesus himself bustled up those Hail at i o clock p. m. H is theme
fish. If he was m an. why should for Ing.-rsoll Society. Pain Hall,
J. E HOSMER, P re sid e nt,
he thank somebody else for w hat Boston, is “ H istory, M ystery and t
Silverton, Oregon,
he did himself; if be was God, was Mission of Music” S unday after
it not a fake piece of m onkey busi noon, Novem ber 28, which will lie
ness for him to th an k him self for repeated to the Lowell Liberal As
w hat he had done him self?
sociation Pilgrim s H all, Palm er St.
Song Book
R© 1.
U b e ra i U niversity C om pany,
God and th e Goiden C a lf.
December 5, 7.30 o’clock. The
“ B runo” lecture appears in full in
the Boston Investigator o f Novem
ber 6. The In v estig ato r and the
Lowell an<l N ashua papers all
speak highly of Mr. G uild’s plat
form efforts. He m ay be address
ed in regard to engagements,
these and other lectures, at 30
Hot St., Lowell, Mass.
How to Make —
Good Tim es for all T im e
A railway is to be built to the top
of Mount Sinai. This mountain, it
will be remembered, is the place
where God once consulted with
Moses upon various matters of state.
W hile the cabinet meeting was in
session the people of Israel became
wearied, and amused themselves for
a little while with a golden calf.
We will send the T orch of R ea —
God was on the mountain: hut he on from now until J a n u a ry l s f, It "hould be in
knew all about what was going on, 1899, for one dollar. Tell your
and was so enraged at the success friends about it and have them
of his gold standard rival that he subscribe.
The G overnm ent n atio n alised th e Poatid fivsn.«, «.»
.
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UNCLE S A M ’S
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