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8 THE TORCH OE REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1897. NEWS AND NOTES. ceive helps on that tract as well as LITTLE POINTS. . . . . T R A C T 8 OF all the others. Helps may be sent You should spend Christmas eve to this office or direct to Mrs. The telephone has done more for at Liberal Hall. the world than “the word of God”. Bliven. Remember Miss DePeatt’s lec On the first page of this issue we Orthodoxy pays millions of dol ture at Liberal Hall Sunday even print another of Alonzo Leora lars each year for her guessers to e d it e d by E L IZ A M O W R Y B L IV E N ing. Rice's poems. Mr. Rice is a regular guess. C o n tain in g condensed a rg u m en ts in i« Five new students expect to contributor to the magazines and is voi of .Moral Secularism and Right The snake in the Garden of Eden Living, and against S u p e rsti enter our school when it reconvenes the author of a number of splendid and those in the drunkard’s boots tio n , Im m o rality and Jan. 3rd. poems. He has published a num are imaginings of diseased brains. In tem p eran ce. JU S T T H ^ T H IN G Don’t fail to witness the enter ber of them, together with his por G'krislina of India said, “1 am tainment and see the Christmas trait, in a neat 32 page book, which the beginning, the middle, and tbe to h an d to your C h ristian friends. p „ |,. lish ed m onthly at fl.0 0 per y a r (5o stocking at Liberal Hall, Christmas lie offers at the very low- price of end,” long before the bible was trac ts each m o n th ), bv five cents a copy. He also writes eve. Admission free. THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO,, that he is having published a written. We will soon begin work on the dainty little hook of Secular poems ' • • Oregon If Jesus was God manifest»*«! in Sllver,or’ dining-hall arid have it ready to which will he out in time for the th e fle sh , th e n t h e t e x t m ight read, move into as soon as possible. holidays. He offers these books for “Jesus gave bis only begotten fa M'MILLAN & PITTMAN Those desiring to donate work ten cents and we hope that h e will t h e r , ” e tc . please let us know. le able to sell a large number. A h to the existence of the super The Little Candle is an electric His address is Ray’s Crossing, Did. natural, one man knows precisely bulb. May its light never grow as much, ami exactly as little, as less, but shine more and more to REFLECTED RAYS. another.— R. G. It gersoll. -All kinds of choice- help the T orch of R eason show Dig dow n to I he bed rock of all the way.[—J. P. Guild. “ Religions are like fireflies, they supernatural le lig io i s and you will ...F R E S H M E A T .. School closed Wednesday for the require darkness in order to shine.” find lies, mistakes, assumptions — Always on ham! and sold at holidays. The students will now —[Schopenhauer. everything ’hat is infamous. have time to rest after two months’ It is time for some successor of The word “Christ” was used by S ta n d a rd * P rices hard study and will be ready to start Madame Roland to exclaim, “O pagans long before it was applied in Jan. 3rd, with renewed vigor. patriotism, what follies are uttered Me p.ty the highest price to Jesus. The people of Loretto in thy nanu!” The Silverton Secular Sunday had a black savior, called Cbrest, Cash fo r F at S to c k school is growing rapidly and Our malice and our anger injures or Christ. ....G iv e Us a C a ll.... parents are realizing what a benefit ourselves far more than thev do Christians ask, “What would you it is to them and their children. our enemies.—[Aunt Elmina, in ...T H E ... give us in place of the Christian It is a shame that there is not a Investigator. church?” and saloonatics claim Secular Sunday school in every 5AM O L I If this he a Christian nation, that a town would he dead without school district. why is not citizenship in tbi«* a saloon. We think that halls of Miss Kate DePeatt’s lecture that country synonymous with Christi 0o A W E E K L Y P A P E R science and moral entertainment o o 0 was to have been delivered last anity? and why may one not de FO R C H IL D R E N .-.-.’ would do us much more good than Sunday has been postponed until pend upon such citizenship for sal T he L ittle C andle co n tain s m oral an< either. hygie lie stories am i lessons, letters iron next Sunday evening. The sub vation?—[American Sentinel. The world wasn’t made in six vonng tolks and lessons for Seculer Sun ject of the lecture is ‘‘Evolution of Schools. It co n tain s n o th in g super When one has waked up to the days; woman wasn’t made from a day stitio u s, and is ju st th e tiling for ch il Spcoks”. The usual good program idea that the world needs to be rib; Noah didn’t build an ark; the d ren , no m a tte r of w hat belief. If yon will precede the lecture. have no Secular Sunday school th a t you made better, and goes to work to language of the world was not can a tte n d , subscribe for tb e L ittle C an There will be but three mort* help to do it, he discovers a j<»y changed in one day; no one ever dle am i have a Sunday school in your meetings of the Y. P. S. S. C. this which no selfish pleasure can begin raised the dead to life; there are no own hom e. F bf Year . . 25 Cents. term. Then it will be determined to equal.—[The Pointer. gods, d vils nr angels; Jesus Christ THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY COMPANY, which side will have to furnish the nor any of the saviors of* the world SILVERTON . . . OREGON. \\ ill spirits of departed scientists dinner. The members of the Club were sons of gods. have had a splendid time during please to tell ns, through their S IL V E R T O N ... U niversity Fund. the meetings past and it is to be mediums, what spirits are—what hoped that the meetings next term they are composed of, what consti The amount given in this fund tutes their being, and by virtue of is actual cash paid in. regardless of will be even more interesting. what has been promised: We will celebrate Christmas in what natural law- they, unlike Previously acknowledged, $554.55 true Secular style this year. The every other thing in Nature, can J. G. Francis, Oregon 1.50 .. .Artistic Work survive during all eternity? There F. YanHoeter, Oregon 1.00 Secular Sunday School is prepar M ATERIAL, ETC. ing a fine entertainment of recita will be no answer!—[Wettstein in Investigator. Previously acknowledged, $254.50 When you want a.... tions, exercises and music, which 10.00 G ood S m o o th S h a v e will be followed by a short address Ifth ereisan v time more than E. W. Ross, (lumber) Or a F irst-C lass........ by Miss Kate DePeatt, and the dis another when a Christian ought to Hair-Cut tribution of presents for the Sun i be consistent in practice and in be TORCH OF REASON ----------- CALL ON------------ day school children. The presents lief, it is surely while in the act of will be placed in a large “Christ partaking of the sacrament of holy E. E. T A Y L O R mas stocking”, made especially for communion. Nev rtheless, instead ***** the purpose, and will be well of warding off*disease by the use of <X^_NO. I. S ilverton , ..................................O regon filled. a little of that faith which Christ Î o VJ g ' h * . In this issue we print tract no. 2 said would enable true Christians of Scientific Wisdom, which is now- to swallow even the most virulent ready to be distributed and which poisons without ill effect, churches we hope will find a ready sale. everywhere are adopting individual Remember you get fifty tracts each communion cups at considerable Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat month for a year(12 different sul>- expense, that contagion may be ent business conducted for MODERATE FEES. O ur O f f ic e is O f p o s it i ; u . S . P a t e n t O f f ic e ' KEEP THE TORCH OF REASON jecte) for one dollar. These dis avoided. So total a lack of faith and we can secure patent in less tune than those BCRNINQ.” remote from Washington. tributed amongst your friends will exhibited in the very performance Send model, drawing or photo., with descrif^- tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of! of a sacrament of the church would doubtless do some good. The tract charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. , New and selected secular songs set A PAMPHLET, “ How to Obtain Patents,” with! be astonishing were not the relation for February will show the similari cost of same in the U. S. and foreign country ! to fa m ilia r tunes. between Christian preaching and sent free. Address, ties between gods and religions. Christian practice so very well T h ir ty -tw o pages. Price io cents. C .A .S N O W & C O .; Mrs. Bliven would be pleased to re known.—-[Investigator. W A B H IN O T O N . D . C . ' Scientific W isdom . B UTCHERS- 0 Barber Shop SONG BOOK