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
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a , • I evidences th a t th is nation is he-
w anting the m inisters to keep th eir
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preacher criticised our constitution .
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com ing weary of theology and
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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
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has the least law in it. I here is a . . . .
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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 .
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the question will arise, W hat
hearing from us for so long, you
wandered up and down little Ju d ea
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w
hat
bible
is
it—n
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aptist’s,
try in g to make people better by
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’ m ight think we had all joined the
D rake &. W ebb,
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, * a M ethodist’s, a P resb y terian ’s, a
church or com m itted some other
teaching them to love each other. ,
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Oregon
The people there, both native and . .
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equally foolish ac*, and thereby sev Silverton
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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
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there
m
ay
be
but
few
people
left,
ns owu race, the
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let you know th at the M alheur
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Jesus
said,
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one
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Jews, accused h ltn of blasphem y
’ C o u n t y Secular Union is still in
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The
tru
th
shall
m
ake
you
free”
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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 .
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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
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headway
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part
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m
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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!
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people accepted the teachings of
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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
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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
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constitutions.
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one of G od’s veterans bom barding
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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
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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.
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it, and ever since then the nations
ness in wholesale superstition de
W ishing the U niversity unbound- Data of E th ics...............
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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 “
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heathen p lay th in g into a gun be-
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c a ai i
. rate of about $150,000 per year for ’
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. Discourses of Epictetus
nind a hall and so shot the love of j
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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.
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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
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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.
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nee-oil iv. .
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church building for each of the
in u e a r e , however, too m any who
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think «k^:
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The Government nationalized the Postal .1 System,
systei why not also
’nink th eir religion
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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
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bible
in
th
e
co
nstitution
of
of Dr. C arroll’s
u.
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I These figures
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All profits on this book will be given to the Liberal University,
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