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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1898)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, S iL V E R lO N . O R EG O N , T H U R SD A Y , JA N U A R Y 6, D 98. interest, d hygiene . r m orality subscribers are obtained and the should »end • riginal or selected a r first lecture is ready for p rillin g . ticles, of not over 400 words. Of W ho else will send Mr. H osm er a (V,urse we cannot offer pay for these sim ilar promise? I send him a li-t arlicle? until the 1000 subscribers of lecture subjects herew ith also. ire -retired, b u t who w ill try to To secure variety and a fair pro /t e «nme of these lessens to help portion of each class of lectures, I , i* ,rt m eetings, J* V J * the«e * C7Z and teach the suggest th at the subject for th e first people what so many need to learn? Sunday in each m onth he com pari A * I h ive not tim e to w rite such les sons between science and religion, sons myself till the tracts are off like my tract subjects, the second Sunday be devoted to political sub my hands. I have given out notice th a t there ject*, the third to n atu ral sciences, will he a scientific m eeting a t our and the fourth to industries, phil achievem ents of hojjse the first Sunday in J a n u a ry , anthropies, or and I want the list and lessons for men. E liza M owry B live i, Sec. use right along. For m ) first m eet Brooklyn. Conn. ing the question will be, “ W hat Promotes C ivilization?” using the second tract for the reading to sta rt H E L P S TO W A RD TRA CT I I I . discussion. Pictures will illustrate the w< rk of civilization. O thers Selected by Joel B erry, from ingersoll, Paine, and B oulanger on th e may bring som ething to read. A U n re lia b ility of the Bible. selection from I)r. Dio Lew is’s “ In a Nutshell” will furnish th e hygi Ingersoll says, “ After the Jews enic lesson, and som ething from the returned from Baby Ion, about 400 ‘ Little C andle” will do for a m or B. C ., E zra commenced to make ality lesson. I th in k I will use the the Bibb*. You will find a full ac “ Nature lesson” also, u n itin g th e B u ild in g in C ourse of C o n s tru c tio n . count of this refolded in the Bible. meeting and S unday school at first. We know that Gem si* was w ritten With the lecture and lessons p ro T H E O N L Y S C H O O L OF T H E K IN D after the C aptivity, because it was vided each week anybody could call from the B abylonians th a t the together their neighbors, select the ♦«e — Jews got the story of the Creation, best readers and have a more in-1 . , ~ , . . . • i_ j 1 of Adam and Eve, of the G arden, structive m e e tin g th a n is fu rn is h e d I _ . ...... : of the serpent, th e tre e of life, and to the largest audiences in th e cost the flood, and from them they also liest churches. learned about the S abbath. You After the dem and for such lec will find nothing about the Holy tures is really established, every day in either the hook of Judges, great publishing house in the coun Joshua, Samuel, Kings, C hronicles, P upils are G iven Every O p p o rtu n ity to Learn W ithout try will want to share in fu rn ish Being H am pered by S uperstitions and Dogmas. Job, Psalm s, E sther, Solomon’s ing the supply. T h eir list of con Song or Ecclesiastes. Only in tributors include the great lights of hooks w ritten by E zra after the re literature, science and statesm an tu rn from Babylon. ar ship, so they could secure the best “ W h en Ezra finished the inspir- of lectures. Each would soon s e n d , , . . . . ... , ™ , t -x t 4. r i i o j led hook he placed it in the lem ple. forth its list of lectures for S u n d a y ! _ . , , . - , .. . ... I t w as w ritte n on th e s k in s of scientific meetings, perhaps at high , . . , , . . beasts, and as far as we know there and low prices. I hen everv society . .. • • , . . * , '. w a s hut one. Now the question is, A Splendid Dorps of Teachers and Good F acilities for can select t<> suit its needs and 1*7 1 , 1 u t , imPoniD < if „ 1 , . In HL* '* I HQ Teaching. For inform ation, address tastes, and such Sunday instruction J. E. HOSMER, Ph.D., B.S.D , President, see, Jerusalem was taken by T itus will then become popular ev ery - SILVERTON. OREGON. , , , . ..... :.,ia b o u t seventy \e a rs after C hrist, where and churches of religion will . ' ' , , , . x . r I he I em ple was destroyed, and at have to become a thing of m the e past. J , >g di past , the requ»*st of Josephus, the Holy But to sta rt it, all interested Bible was sent to Vespasian, the should hand together for the first em peror of Rome. And this holy .................................................................. E. M., 297. year. How? S tart your meetings bible has never been seen or heard without the lectures. Suppose some of since. So much for th at. Then are fortunate enough to win 100 there was a copy, or rath er tra n sla attendants, and tw enty are enough tion, called the Septaugint. How in earnest to each pay $2.60 for the was ih a t made? It is said th at SILVERTON, OREGON years’ lectures. W hen th eir secre Ptolem y Soter and his son, Ptole tary receives the tw enty copies, a ----- my P hiladelpus, obtained a tra n s copy will at once be furnish» d to lation of th e Jew ish bible. This the best elocutionist, the head sing Enclosed fin d .................................. Dollars to assist in the tran slatio n was m ade by seventy ► X er, and to two who will read the Construction of the Liberal University at Silverton, Oregon. ?< hygienic and m oralitv lessons; the ° ni9’1 At that . tim e the Jewish n • 1 _ .. , , , bible did not contain either Daniel rest <ire retained till the close of the . . . . , . . . , Yours for Progress, 4k 1 .1 1 . .1. .1. or Ecclesiastes, and hut few of the meeting, then handed to the other . * z t • u tv . . r Psalm s, and only part of Isaiah. subscribers. Then each of the >T / , e „ f, „ , . Now’ w hat became of this? It was twenty can loan Ins or her copy t o ,. , . . „ nno , , ,. , : burned in the B ruchium Library , 9 C u t th is o u t, or copy It; enclose one or several who did not attend ► X w h a t you can, and fo rw ard to forty-seven years before Christ. the meeting. Several m ight be led J. E HOSMER, President, “ Then there was another so-call to attend the next m eeting, and ed copy of the bible known as the '»titers to subscribe. This would be Silverton, Oregon. S am aritan Roll o f the Pentateuch. rea! beneficent m issionary work and But this is not considered of any lead to the instruction of the whole ^>ûy<x^(xxxxxxx><xHx><xxxHX)<><xx><><><xx><><xxxxxx>(> value. H ave we a true copy of the community. bible th a t was in the temple at J t- Io start the subscription list, I OONTINUEI) OX SEVENTH PAGE. promise to pay $2.60, when 1000 L IB E R A L UNIVERSITY F re e from S u p erstitio n S trictly N on-Sectarian L o c a tio n H e a lth fu l S o c ie ty G ood. E x p e n s e s M o d e ra te . m m f Liberal U niversity Company, T ry th e Torch for Job work.