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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Dealers
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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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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»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
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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.
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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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