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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1897)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON , T H U R SD A Y , D ECEM BER 30, 1897. Shooting Love from a Gun. w itches strangled on S alem ’s G a l erection in this country has fallen low s-H ill; then Roger W illiam s off $1,215,480 in the past four I was lately in a Freew ill Bap- was banished to the wilderness for ; J'ea' 8' Th<’ horiz'>n '9 1,flanie » » h t -t meeting where th e B ritish-horn .i • • . x i a , • I evidences th a t th is nation is he- w anting the m inisters to keep th eir . preacher criticised our constitution . , , com ing weary of theology and , for not m entioning God, Christ and h a n d s o ftth e scales of civil ju J s tic e .' superstition. He established a state where priests W. E. J ohnson . the bible, saying th a t no govern had no political power, and his dis CASH FAiD FOn ALL KINDS OF FAT STOCK, New York City, Dec. 12. ment could long succeed which did ciples, the B aptists of every stripe, HIDES. PELTS. ETC. not recognize these. I m ade this should be the last to seek to put the Let the Good Work Go On. reply: chains across the door of A m erican MEATS SOLD AT REASONABLE I like th at religion best which , , ™ • i c itiz e n sh ip . W hen C h rist a n d the E ditor T orch of R eason : has the least law in it. I here is a . . . . ’ . . , . , bible are p u t into the constitution, RATES. For fear th at on account of not storv th at once a man nam ed Jesus . 1 . . ’ j , r j the question will arise, W hat hearing from us for so long, you wandered up and down little Ju d ea . ’ . . ’ , i u » Christ? w hat bible is it—n B aptist’s, try in g to make people better by M ’ m ight think we had all joined the D rake &. W ebb, ■x , . i , , * a M ethodist’s, a P resb y terian ’s, a church or com m itted some other teaching them to love each other. , , ’ J ’ i .i .. , C ath o lics, or whose interpretation Oregon The people there, both native and . . ’ , , 1 equally foolish ac*, and thereby sev Silverton t ■ VA ~4 »oi^ 4k a ,4 t sort 4 of t IS intended? And before th a t doubt ered our connection with reason, I foreign, did not take 4~ to th is settled by bayonet and bullet religion. There was no money tn thought I would write to v<»u and • , there m ay be but few people left, ns owu race, the < ’ 1 it. so those of hi let you know th at the M alheur • . . . , Jesus said, “ Love one a n o th e r” ; Jews, accused h ltn of blasphem y ’ C o u n t y Secular Union is still in .v..:_____ 4. .. The tru th shall m ake you free” . against the god of th eir ancestor, line and doing its best to help carry AND He who loves another does not en Ahraham, and those from another the banner of U niversal M ental Lib slave him. Truth and love a re a lik e land, the R om ans, charged him erty on to victory. At the annual M a in S t r e e t - S ilv e r t o n , O r e . — you cannot drive either into men with treason ag ain st th eir king, m eeting of the M. C. S. U. the old and women with ram rods. Religion Cæsar, and between the two factions officers were all re-elected; the CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF and science are w orthless except as of politicians he was killed. The offices of secretary •r and librarian they are voluntary. You can con governments of both Jew s an d Ro being united, the secretary holding trol conduct in some m easure, but S chool mans had a god in th eir co n stitu both. We are holding literary m eet you cannot m ake m oral character tions, Jehovah an d Ju p iter, and a ings in the evenings of the first and S u p p lie s , by constitutions and th e m ilitary. church and priesthood established third S aturdays of each m onth and Jesu s said, “ My kingdom is not of B ooks .. and regulated by law, and they Sunday school on the second and this w orld,” and we don’t need a have both been wiped off the face of fourth Sundays. S ta tio n e ry . kingdom in this or an y other the earth. The little band whom Freet bought is surely m aking world. Jesus was try in g to teach the high IK ( V I H lll? U » II t t of q 1 lir C ’ H III- f V 1 • , » • . w r . headway in I I this part the conn •J ohn P. G uild . , , Dealers m r nuts, v egetables er law of love and hum an b ro th e r try, while lawlessness is decreasing, i hood, organized them selves into a 1 believe, in the sam e ratio. Re and Confectionery. R unning Behind. church, this church spread all over ligious revivals here are usually Europe and became established by dism al failures, the preachers con It was blit a few’ weeks ago th a t law of all its nations, hut few o fth e sidering them selves luekv if they the Am erican Bible Society was! 4 . "j • people accepted the teachings of , . . get one or two converts d u rin g a to m akt public tin f a it r,.vjVHj j k nfw ()f few sadder A 6 [P I t ’D ( S ® * Jesus, whom they, however, called compel» th a t they were in sueh « .re fin a n -, th a „ tb a t pregPn|ed by iT H <g® S Christ the Lord and put in their cial stra its th a t they had offered! n , . , constitutions. J one of G od’s veterans bom barding . We can furnish the following Ixxiks the bible house in this city for sale. a congregation of _ soulless sin n ers well " ' houn<l - - in cloth - - ; good - print, standard John C h in am an , the heathen, in The reasons given by them selves vented an explosive and used it to with all the godlv abuse th at he sizes, for the extremely low price of . . . . . . , . 60 cents each, postuge 10 cents. Don’t were th at th e rents of the building amuse his children with. A C hris can th in k of, and receiv in g n o th in g | fail to take advantage of this offer. ha»l fallen off as well as i he sales of tian doctor found out how t«» m ake hut grim silence in retu rn . It Origin of Species.............. Chas. Darwin bibles. So heavily had their busi must indeed he discouraging. j ; H e r7 rt gpen‘wr it, and ever since then the nations ness in wholesale superstition de W ishing the U niversity unbound- Data of E th ics............... “ “ which had C hrist and his bible in creased th a t the concern had been their constitutions have put the j ed success, and hoping to be with Kartnr ,p..arl„ / .......... Thomas Carlyle running behind on expenses at the you ere another year rolls hv, I re- History French Revolution “ “ heathen p lay th in g into a gun be- l ;, ,i i 11 j c a ai i . rate of about $150,000 per year for ’ c i . Discourses of Epictetus nind a hall and so shot the love of j , ,,r , , m ain, yours for the enlightenm ent p.lHt and P - resen 1 t........... Thomas Carlyle several • years. W ealthy «4 as the cor- of superstition-curs»*»! hum anity. 4 H ypatia................................Chas. Kingly God and the H oly Ghost in to each Autobiography of Benj. Franklin potation is, it is unable to stand J. E dwin J ohnson , other—or tried to. Today, S pain, Fifteen Decisive Battles of the this enorm ous deficit. W orld.......................... E. C. Creasy Sec’v M. C. 8. U with more C hrist in its constitution This with the announcem ent th at Tennyson’s Poems aiul cussedness in its disposition We will send the T orch of R eas - Shelleys Poems Ixingfellow s Poems than any o th er land on the globe, about 170 religious newspapers of the country haveheen forced to sus-i ON <>ne .v ear five new subscribers Pope’g poems is trying to shoot the love of God pend publication -luring the past *3-75, and the p arty getting up Milton'. Pnem. into (he poor people of Cuba, who 1 1 the club will receive fifty visiting Hood s 1 oems have a mind to he free from foreign y ea r o r so, a-ld-d to the dism ay of car(,8 ,|)r hiH tro u b |„. Thes„ ,.a r ,,8 Burns’ Poems are ju st the th in g for Secularists to Byron’s Poems rule, and the chances are they will tne gods. Now in this m orning’s “ W orld” use, as they have an engravi ng of Shakespeare’s Poems all he blown into the ocean before is an article bv Rev. IL K. C arroll, the famous WetGt«*in badge hmiufi- Address, they get much religion into them ill ly lithographed a t the left of J O N ES’ BO O K STO RE, D. D., one of the “ In d e p en d en t’’ that way. the nam e. 291 A lder S t . PORTLAND, ORE. editors, ami who was su p erin ten d I he I nited S tates’ constitution ent of the religious departm ent of guarantees equal freedom io people the U nited States census for 1890. °i all religions an d of no religion; How to Make — it does not seek to support God by Dr. Carroll gives the cold figures of the sum s of money raised for gtinpow’der and m the e p<j police-hilly. o rum nee-oil iv. . , . .... . , . Thpio k . / church building for each of the in u e a r e , however, too m any who . - l think «k^: i- • »4 4 . i past lour years. 1 he figures make w -X The Government nationalized the Postal .1 System, systei why not also ’nink th eir religion .. . . , iigion c a n ’t stand 1 the Money System? A plan is told by C. ELTON BLANCHARD Her«* they a startlin g showing. alone and want to p u t th eir christ, in his book e n title d .............................. are: g“d and bible into our co n stitu tio n . 1 a m ’ t r a is e d . YEAR. U N C L E S A M 'S finy will do well to consider first 1893................ how that style of thing has worked H O M IL IE S O N F IN A N C E 1895................ heretofore. We had C hrist, God 4,171,306 1896................ Postpaid for 25 C ents. ir » bible in th e co nstitution of of Dr. C arroll’s u. , I These figures - All profits on this book will be given to the Liberal University, la^ aeh u setts once; then Q uakers I show one thing: th at the sum of *t should be in the hands of every thinking person. Address all orders to u * re hung on Boston Common and ( money raised annually for church t The TORCH OF REASON, S ilverton . Oregon \ \ / a t e r Street... M arket KiNNEV PORTER GOOD BOOKS yiGood Times for all Time