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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
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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
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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
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tribution of presents for the Sun i be consistent in practice and in be
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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
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the purpose, and will be well of warding off*disease by the use of
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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 '
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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.
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Mrs. Bliven would be pleased to re known.—-[Investigator.
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