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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
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m eetings,
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people what so many need to learn? Sunday in each m onth he com pari
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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
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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
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structive m e e tin g th a n is fu rn is h e d I _ .
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Construction of the Liberal University at Silverton, Oregon. ?<
hygienic and m oralitv lessons; the
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or Ecclesiastes, and hut few of the
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subscribers. Then each of
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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
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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
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