T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , DECEM BER 30, 1897.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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