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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1898. Scientific Wisdom. I cannot get tim e to finish revis- inir the “ p lan”. W riting the tracts a!,<1 securing th eir distribution is of ..... a *k tir-t importance. Tk J hex .. opened the , • w iv for S u n d a y scien tific meetings ,„'.rP and will elsew here if the Er. e’thinhers have c o n fid e n t topics, “ How Souls Grow and D«*cav,” ‘ No Future Life,” “ Anni- hilation Pref« r a h h ’’. Send either jo u r own opinions or quotations. If you do not make it brief, the editor will prohablv . ’ out it down, f° r We " an t " ,e ” f '’etwee" a w e,".v a n d fiftv on one-page <>i ih,- T ORCH. .Just state what reason you would give if anyone attacked you on either of those subjects Fifty Freethinkers ought to have a ready answer and be glad of a chance to put it in the T ouch . .My answ er will be in the T orch with vours. It contains forty-three words, t belli se Ives and really want such meetings i° their own homes, I find it is not necessary to wait for lectures nor lessons. \\ c have had three meetings, and anybody else can have meetings who want them enough to put forth any «ffort. Half the C hristians do not like the bible well enough to read it. They E liza M owry B l iv e n . would rather hear som ething tha« will teach them som ething practic ally beneficial. It is our own c >w- FR EETH O U G H T ardice, laziness or indifference, N EW S-N O TE S. we do not start and keep up suet» • meetings. Distribute some tracts, and find The Lomhni Ere» t' ink» rs’ annual which of your ne ihbors like them . • linn» r took place »arlv in Jan u a ry , Invite those to your house for a at d was a great success. “ In point Sunday Scientific meeting. Hav» of num bers,” says * the Freethinker, whatever music and singing you I i u this gathering beat the world.” can get that is free from religiou- I * * * cant. Read an article from a A Limited Liability ('om pany i- scientific Magazine or high-seh' Oi to be start« (1 to carry on th e publ - book, or on some political or reform ealion of Secular Thought ami the question for the main paper. Don’t work of the C anadian Secular select anything long or dry Read Union. Tite C apital is to be $5,000 a short article from a Fleet bought in sliares of $5 each. paper, then read a selection from a * * * school physiology or a health mag- Col. Ingersoll is going to E urope azine for the hygienic lesson. Dis cussion mav follow either of these. and take England Then be sure to read the morality on »he way”, in announcing which and nature lessons in the “ Little prospective event in the F reethink Candle” , using the questions or er, Mr. Foote jubilan tly exclaim s, not, as you have time. Have the “ T hat will be a golden year in our children learn the stanzas at home hist» >rv.” Jfc * * and recite them a t the meeting. F. H. Bond, a F reethinker Iat«‘ Select the best readers to read these lessons and selections, and use pic of W inona, Illinois, in his will tures, m inerals, and w hatever els»- se» a good «»xatnplc for others pos you can to illustrate. You will find sessed of means. He left a fund of your neighbors have more appr« el $5,000. the proceed*« of which are Io ation of what is good and willing be devoted either to tin* establish ness to learn, th an you ever gave m ent of a Liberal Library or a Lib them credit for. When we secure eral H all. * * the hygienic and m orality lessons' W illiam J. Linton, th ■ veteran and lectures, we shall be glad ot such helps, hut there is no need ol F reethinker, poet ami artist, «lied at putting off iIn* startin g of scientiti« New Haven, Conn., Dec. 30. He was Sunday meetings till then. If your ttnd E nglishm an ami a C hartist in own character is what it Ollgnt t » early life, and stood at the head of he you can do it. Don’t be afraid his profession—th a t of wood-en to distribute the tracts to every graving. He was a noted writer body. Ju st asK th em to read an d a u th o r «-fa Life "t Paine. * * * and tell \<>u what they think of it. T h e M a n h a tte n L iberal C lu b Be -ure to keep good na tuied no matter what they say. You w iJ have passed r e s o lu tio n s com mend- find more church atten d an ts th a t ing the life and character and re- will favor and help you, th an those gretting the death of “ Henry M. Usually called infidels. Try it. Taber, an earnest and outspoken I have bought P arsh all’s “ Proofs Freethinker, a w riter ofinsight and of Evolution,” Judge Ladd’s “ Corn- ability, and a member of this club.” tnentaries of Hebrew ami C hristian This «»tight finally to dispose of the Mythology” , and Kersey G rave’s charge th a t Mr. Taber was a hvpo- “Sixteen Crucified S aviors” D crite, pretending to be a Christian secure the right m aterial for the f°r business purposes up to the Fourth Tract. Now I hav. plenty, tim e of his death. The requests To help me write the Fifth Tract, I tna«l»‘ in Ids will as to funeral ex- Want everyone who is interested ercises and th«* disposal of his re in these tracts to send to the T orch n.ains were carried out to the letter right away one sentence or par«»- by the club of which he was a mem- graph on eith er of these three ¡h» r. 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