T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , DECEM BER 30, 1897. 8 NEW S AND NOTES. do a vast am ount of good if prop erly used, and we hope th a t the subscription list will grow. A happy New Year. School reconvenes next Monday. Ja n u a ry 3d. Miss K ate DePeatt has been quite 1 seriously ill the past week, but is m uch improved now. W e are pleased to see our former teacher, Miss Wolf, who is at home for the holidays. T he program at the Y. P. S . 8. C. m eeting last T hursday evening is claim ed to have been one of tbe best of the season. Send us ten cents and receive 50 tracts, “ Can Sins be F orgiven?K and distribute them am ong your C hristian friends. We are very sorry to announce th at on account of sickness there will be no m eeting at Liberal Hall next Sunday evening. We have a good supply of back num bers of the tracts of Scientific Wisdom and subscriptions can be gin with the fïrwt num ber if de sired. Miss G ertrude Milliorn is spend ing the holidays at her home in Junction City, after which she will return to her studies at the Liberal U n iv e r s ity . Next week’s T orch will contain som ething interesting from Eliza Mowry Bliven, and Bohemian E v ening No. 5, by C. Elton Blan chard. Many of our readers who are re newing th eir subscriptions are availing them selves of the oppor tu n ity to include a few dollars for the U niversity fund. This is what we like and we hope others will follow the exam ple. We are glad to receive so m any subscriptions for tbe Little Candle, and hope the list will soon reach the one thousand m ark, for then the paper will he enlarged and otherwise improved. The price is so exceedingly low th a t the Little C andle ought to be placed in the hands of every child in the coun try. The C hristm as en tertain m en t at Liberal H all Friday evening was a great success. The program was . , one of the best ever rendered on sut.p a „ occasion and the audience was highly pleased. The following program was rendered: Chorus by the C hildren; R ecitation, K reta Hicks; Song, Q uartette; Recitation, Lora Ames; L ena’s D ream , C hil dren; Recitation, W innie W hit lock; Address, K ate D ePeatt; Can ta ta , The Changes of a Night, C hildren; Vocal Solo, A. W. Elim ; C hristm as stocking; D istribution of presents. LITTLE POINTS. 1BACTS The pope knows no more about a god tnan does an ape. A governm ent cannot he Chris tian , but it can he secular. OF Scientific W isdom . à E D IT E D BY E L fZ A M O W R Y B L IV E N . Secularists know more about the , C ontaining condensed a rg u m en ts in fa. voi of Moral S ecularism and Right bible than most C hristians do. The chief aim of all true educa tion is the form ation of moral L iving, and ag ain st Sujiersti- tio n , Im m o rality and In tem p eran ce. JU S T T H E T H IN G c h a ra c te r. to h an d to y o u r C h ristia n frien d s. Pub. lished m onthly a t $1.00 per v 3ar (50 loving god, he is trac ts each m o n th ), bv If there is a either limited in power or will save ail men from hell. How happy redeemed parents will he, especially preachers, to hear the cries of their wayward sons in hell. THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO.. Silverton • • • Oregon M 'M ILLAN & PITTMAN B UTCHERS— C hristians, don’t send away your He T h a n k e d God. money to heathen lands. Use it to convert us and keep it in circula Louisville, Dec. 28. — Patrick tion at home. -All kinds of choice- Kelly, a hardwood finisher, who for One of the most wicked things in over a year lias b» en dumb, sudden M E A T ... ly recovered tbe use of speech yes the world is the preachers’ pretend ...F R E S H Always on h an d an d sob! at terday during a fit of anger. He ed knowledge of supernatural was greatly surprised to find h im things. Prices. self talking and changed his words A fifteen-year-old student of the S ta n d a rd * from curses to a fervent “ thank Liberal U niversity knows more We pay th e highest price God ” He was form erly employed th an all the priests, prophets and at \\ innington, Del., and it was kings of C hsist’s time. Cash fo r F at S to ck. while cursing one of the bosses th at We have two years in which to ....G iv e Us a C a ll.... h is voice failed h im .- [E x. get ready for the cam paign of the It is a good plan to look for a tw entieth century. ...T U E ,. Let’s werk thing where yon lose it, and this lively. Freethinkers. bO T T L I man lost his speech while swearing If the m inisters of the gospel (?) and found ¡t while swearing. It is strange th a t God should strike a in n dum b for swearing and then give him bis voice a year after so he could swear again. p. w. o. of Jesus C hrist knew h"w fiat their A W E E K LY PAPER prayers and ravings sound to well- FO R C H IL D R E N ”.••• inform ed- people they would he The L ittle C andle contains m oral and more careful. hygie lie stories and lessons, letters from Instead of punishing men for not serving God, God (if there is one) ought to be punished for not serv On th e R ig h t T ra c k . ing the people better. We need E ditor 'P orch of R eason : som ething better th an a crucifix I have been looking for the pen ion. cil m ark on my paper for a long W hen we learn th a t “ free moral lime and found it on the last num agency” is a hum bug, and th a t in ber. Enclosed please find money heritance and environm ents m ake order for two dollars, for which people what they are, we have love please continue my T orch for a n and sym pathy for everyone. I f we other year and apply the balance love only those who love us, what on the U niversity fund. I wish 1 more do we th an those who do not was situated so th a t I could help understand the tru th ? Even some you a little more, but perhaps in of the C hristians love each other. the future I will he better fixed and C hristians should convert us can do better by you. I think you heathen. We don’t receive kind are on the right track now, and if words, religious instruction or a n y you will just keep on as you are go ing I am sure you will succeed in thing; not even prayers th a t seem to give us any change of heart. the end, even if success does come And vet we are open to conviction, a little slow. and would he pleased to talk with Yours verv truly, any or all C hristians on any M. O tis . subject they m ight choose. A good program was rendered at the regular Sunday night meeting last Sunday evening. Mr. (Jeer delivered a short address on the E thical Basis, and Airs. Hosmer read a paper entitled, “ Is Life W orth L iving?” These with the G a lla n t T orch . recitations, music, etc., m ade the evening pass very pleasantly and E ditor P orch of R eason : A friend of m ine has been kind profitably. enough to eend me a copy of your I" ract No. 1 of Scientific Wisdom g allant T orch , and I herew ith for came in good play at Pontiac, 111. ward my subscription and also for Mr. John H olm an distributed a ward you two little efforts of mv large num ber through the town own at helping along the grand shortly after a Methodist divine work you are engaged in. W ishing had been discovered to be too in ti you every possible success, I am , m ate with some of the sisters of his Y ours always, Rock. I hese tracts are bound to G eo . N. H ill . Says the C hristian Intelligencer: “ The Bible has no place in its benediction for the C hristian who does not pay his debts.” The m an who pays his debts only because he th in k s th a t God desires him to do so, has no conception of m o ral ity. He acts as he does, sim ply be cause he fears divine displeasure; and his conduct is precisely on a level with th a t of the schoolboy who is good merely out of regard for the m aster’s rod. Thus Chris tian m orality is no m orality.— [ I n vestigator. young folks and lessons for Secular S un day Schools. I t co n tain s n o th in g super- stitio u s, and is ju st the th in g for chil d ren , no m a tte r of w hat belief. If you have no Secular Sunday school th a t you can a tte n d , suhscrilie for th e L ittle Can dle and have a Sunday school in your own hom e. P et Y e a r . . 2 5 Cents. THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY COMPANY 1 SILVERTON OREGON. S IL V E R T O N ... B arber Shop . . . A r t i s t i c W ork W hen you w an t a .... 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