THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1898.
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Heaven on Earth.
E ditor T orch
of R eason :
tiality shown.
Mother E a rth will
m ake no distinction am ong her
children; she will perform her dll-
ties to ah the same. G ranite shafts
may be erected and beautiful epi-
taphs inscribed thereon in memory
of loved and departed ones, hut be
their station high or low. the hand
of e a rth ’s evolution will not change
flllP in t o
one ’0 ,a -
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W ealth cannot control it, creeds
cannot control it; nature alone
holds the power of giving and tak-
for the
advancem ent of tru th ,
then it will he eagerly grasped,
but it is not to those who would
grasp it then th at any credit will
be due. Credit will be due oi ly
to the brave doubters who fearlessly
rent the veil of m yth and m ysterv,
while orthodoxy waved its banm r
enscribed “S trangle the spirit cf
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T h e \ \ b ite C om pany, by Conan Doyle,
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Caine. by C orrelli.
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In my writings
I use the word
soul, not from mere habit as you
suppose, but because, to my m ind,
it conveys a g reater depth of mean-
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progress
and 1 nurse ignorance
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by R obert S tevenson,
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heart. I interpret the word soul to
superstition, for creeds, cu sto m s, Kidnapj't d’. b^^
mean the whole being, em bracing
anfl society with th eir hypocritical The Bondman, by H all Caine,
bo, I, heart and nrind; therefore, if
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fearless thinkers
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iiiu iK fifs c care
u re n not
o t w h at Sport Royal, by Anthony Hope.
properly understood, would carry ing and this last long sleep she these things dem and hnt wi
The Man in Black, by S tanley W eym an.
ever Beyond th e C ity , by A. Conan Doyle.
greater depth th an eith er of the will give, is in every sense a heaven and alw ays spread the light of I tid e T om ’s C ab in , by Mrs. Stow e.
above words. And of course, con for all, and for all the dear ones I tru th , which will grow in brilliancy Web* t e r ’s P ronouncing D ictionary.
osm opolis, by P aul B ourget.
sidering the soul in this sense, it love and have loved and have yet when the lamps of orthodoxy will C
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could not very well be considered to love, I ask no more, for I think he extinguished by the b rillian t Around th e \\ orld in E ighty D ays,V erne
ra vs of Freethought. Believe me in D ark est E ngland, by G en. Booth.
immortal.
we should all strive to m ake a , sincerely and fra tern ally yours,
Ships th at Pass in th e N ight, H a rra d e n .
In being we exist from birth to heaven while here.
Nance, a K entucky Belle, by G reene.
G race E. G ruber .
M
ark T w ain, H is Life and W ork, by
death only, therefore I hold the
Every F reethinker should be
Will M. C lem ens.
light of the soul to be the light of arm ed with three essentials, reason
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B row n’s School D ays, by H u g hes.
The Licensed P reach er.
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oliday
in Bed, by J . M. B arrie.
the being and will extinguish in tru th and fact. Reason m ust be
(C ontinued jro m 2d par»»)
By R ight, Not Law, by R. H. S h e p a rd .
The C hild of th e Law, by De A larcon,
the dampness of sleep called death. the architect and guide, tru th will
ers’’ in all the word im plies.
A dd ress,
But still, would this not be an a p finally lay tha foundation o f true
1 hu5 if is after my years of la
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propriate tim e to quote the great liberalism and fact will stand the bor in the vineyard I see your fool
PO R TLA N D , O R E .
Col. Ingersoll: “ I hope but do not test and bear the tru th of every parents split up and follow strange 291 A lder S t .
know th at death be other th an the assertion, then need we wonder th a t 8 °^ s*
Af,Pr n‘^ ita tin C over Ibis m at-
awakening of a long day, or the C hristianity is forever trem bling
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ter for <i f<*w ubys I d c tp rm irip d to
ending of a long d ay .” Yet if it be wfitii confronted by v these
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» she has been 1
u.eso nowerful
powciiui overcome Roxey,
the awakening of a long day I sin adversaries together with the spirit the prime cause of mv misfortunes,
cerely hope there will be no secta of progress to enable Liberalism to H aving learned th a t our good bro
rian principles, bound by chains of hreak through the barricades of ther, Deacon Bloodsnw, had duly
ignorance or superstition, to con ignorance and superstition? The chastised and overcome his beau-
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-n l - • tiful wife I secured a stout hickory
tend with, and if it be the ending li»ht of trim t
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suck an a w ithout prayer or eere-
of a long day, for life at best is hut forth in reflected splendor and hit tunny I commenced the task of CASH PAID FOR ALL K IN D S OF FAT STOCK,
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a day, it w ill mean rest sublim e inanity will be made wiser, grander- overcoming Roxey to mv wav of
After I had struck her
and supreme. W ould this not be a and greater, and w h o shall they thinking.
far more beautiful thought than to thank as a benefactor? W hy all where I thought it m ight do her HEATS SOLD AT REASONABLE
think of im m ortality as being the the noble m inds th at have been the most good, I lost all conscious
ness. When I p artially recovered
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awakening of a day when joy is brave enough to express th eir my senses I found m yself out in the
said bv the C hristians to he bound honest convictions regardless
all
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busily engaged jq sm ear-
less and yet shall he lim ited be else hut the love of their fellow inK t,IH a P t l p trees with bird lime.
D rake &. W ebb,
As I cannot overcome Roxey
cause of some trivial weakness man and the truth.
with a hickory club, I will write
Oregon
manifest by h u m an ity while here,
I sincerely hope th a t I will be her a bill o f divorce; th a t is, I will Silverton
which they were, in all prohahilitv, able some day to visit the Liberal do so if she does not give up her
unable to resist? Oh, what broad 1 niversity and become personally fool intentions. Once I thought I
and charitable views the C hristian acquainted with the prom oters of knew Roxey like an open hook, hut
religion doth hold for m ankind in the grandest cause on earth. I like now I own that I do not know her,
io r do I know’ any other woman on
general! None hot tin* perfect can the T orch of R eason very much.
<artb— nor do I wish to. All wo
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’** ter that blessed im m ortal sphere Its view are broad and it is fear m en are enigm as to m e. H ereafter
called heaven.
Then what an less in its denunciation of all th a t when I hear a man sav that women
S ilv e r t o n , O r e .
empty place it m ust he, for if any tends to lessen in any wav the sen- a r e 'I u ' ,e easy to fathom , I will sic M a in S t r e e t
were perfection they would never tim ents of the h ig h e s t 'm orality. H |T h im°ouhrim| 7 PrOVi<1" 1 1 d° n<>l
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have reside«! on this earth. And ¡Any person of correct th in k in g ' L ittl? boyef do not waste your
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y e ti believe the most perfect an-
knows only too well, that w ithout golden m om ents in the stud v of the
gels we shall ever meet will he met
a nioral basis, success cannot be ^n u ile sex. King S<»lom n had a
here on earth , in form of the flesh,
attain ed or he lasting, and I pre- th °u san d women, hut even this
commonly called hum an beings. diet th a t the future holds success " ,Se n,Hn„ cou,d ""J com prehend
1>"7 may have the power to soar f’»«'the T orch of R eason , an d I all " is " v a n itV a n d v e x a d o i/” "a n d ’ I
t'i«h in the realm s of th
a t which
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noble and good, hut if they do it
"ill he l he p wings of reason, judg-
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tnent and progress
will
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ble them, and not the wings of a
bat.
Away with such teachings. I
!|.'l not hold them — they are too
‘T’h l a r d t c o narrow for the relig-
lon of a hu m an itarian . I would
ra,ber think of death as the ending
1 ‘ <lay and have rest suprem e for
a b f< r even our enemies will need
n ' tj and as Liberals we can afford
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merciful to every child of na-
,Ur“» rem em bering th a t in the em-
’r-'ce of M other E arth we shall find
P eternal. And it is indeed a
niOst beautiful thought to me, th at
11 Ibis at least there will he no par-,
»»»cerely
* hope
* to seethe
— time
-.-..w when
I phall be in a position to help its
advancem ent.
T„ Brockton,
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In
like most . of . the
cities of the east, orthodoxy pre
vails and yet I find m any who
hold the views of Frcethought, hut
I And very few, in this locality,
who are brave enough to express
their honest thoughts, and I often
tell them they are like children
standing in a dark passage; ihev
are anxious to see the light appear
and would gladly bask in its bril-
Haney, yet do little or nothing in
the way of replenishing the oil of il-
lum ination; hut after true Liheral-
ism becomes universal, which it
will be in time, and brave men and
women have fought and struggled
then ...
he folded his hands u upon
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p o n his
n is
I’reast and gave up the ghost, and
, a thousand widows mourned his
loss.
L ittle ones, “ hear instruction and
he wise, and refuse it not.”
S ch o o l
S u p p lie s ,
B ooks and
S ta t onery.
Dealers in Fruits, Vegetables?
and Confectionery.
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