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T H E TORCH OF REASON
•It-us promised bis follow« hevt>nJ r»na> •;
, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON , TH U R SD A Y , F E B R U A R Y 17, 1898.
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, rs .ba««l,ey should work greater commit err/.rs, b u t' th 'v '»1R give F R
miracles than he did.
Dr. D rum m ond says, ‘ Take a
man and show h,m a m iracle, with
h,s own eyes, then lie will b eliev e->
Vm bet lie m l . And why should
lie believe u ntil he sees one?
he prescribed;
“ I have not wrestle«! with my God
As Jacob did of old,
Except by p reacher on his knees,
As we are often told.
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C»nd lias not w alked m eardon
At morn
cool;
m orn or evening co
o l;
And if I said I ’d seen him th ere
You’d take m e fo ra fool.
m in e
“ My dead were never brought to life,
W hen friends around them grieve:
Such wonders I have never seen
Then why should I believe?”
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it prescribes itself if
it gets a chance. The greatest ene
my of tru th is organized self-inter-
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Theology did not object to
This is a R em arkable Offer!
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Some One is G oing to be B enefitted!
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c n s m inds if it could only
nave their souls; but the politician
would do it in order to get their
votes. Good will come out of evil, I
From F ebruary 1 to A ugust 15, 1898, we have decided to
however, if the lesson is brought
home to the popular m ind th a t ed nake this R e m a rka b le O ffe r.
The p arty sending
ucation and politics are two things u- the largest n u m b er of Yearly Subscribers to th e T orch
th a t should have as little as possi "i I i E asox , a, the regular subscription rate of One D o lla ra
ble to do with one another.
¡¡H.r;.d ' • r—
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a t th e
Thinking the above passages, y T ' t T
1S,ty’
at !?lIvert,)n. Oregon, for One School
|h e person sending the Second Largest n u m b er of
from the J a n u a ry Popular Science l eai.
M onthly, well worth a place in the subscribers at one d o llar a year, will receive Fre>
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‘I have not seen e x h au stless oil
In cruse or any dish,
Nor m an, when sailing o ’er th e sea,
Take passage in a fish.
W arfare A gainst Science.
inspiration <.« i
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judgm ent of th eir p u p i l s ,, t „ m ake
them incline to sound and reason»-
hie views. He who is teaching by
prescription will never teach with
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conviction.
li'iith does m t need to
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T uition and B oard
The w inners of these prizes m ay
The warfare of science with th e T orch of R eason , I send them to T u itio n one year.
choose
any
course
of
study
given in the U niversity.
ology has been am ply and im press
y ou.
M rs . M. M. T urner .
L em em her th e Liberal U niversity is the O nly School of
ively related by such w riters as
Buckle, Draper, and president An- T he M urder an d R obbery of Jew s, tlie kind, and an offer like th is is Indeed Remarkable.
drew White; and m any have sup
posed th at science, having accom-
December 5th Bucharest, in
plished the warfare and come out ho u m an ia, was the scene of an at- will receive free tuition for a year and free hoard besides.
victorious, had no other foe to fear. taek 0,1 the Jews, which reminds
Another enemy has appeared in the “ ne °* those frequent assaults on!
field. T hat enemy is p arty politics, ,he people throughout Christen-!
will receive free tu itio n for a year.
and the science it especially attack s ^ orn d u rin g the Middle A ges and ,1
* R U LES * O F * T H E * C O N T E S T *
is the highest science of all — th»j 1,1 ^ ’e’’ centuries. At Bucharest it j
All subscriptions Diiint I«* pui<| in jtdvHih'e.
science of society in its various ’s
eighteen were killed or fatal-j
Wonfiy m u st be forw ardeil w ith th e order.
branches.
*.v injured and large num bers were!
All orders must be mail« «1 t«> us an.l I...up , i,(. ¡xwtmarlc at the office of mailing
ihe very essence of scientific
a,en a,,(l robbed. S tudents of
teaching lies in its freedom. Teach- ^ ie u n ’versity started the row’ and not later th an M onday. A ugust 15, 1898.
ing that is not free can only usurp
rollMller clem ent continued and
-a
the name of science.
If the word ^ r’lshed the work of m urder and
S ni nl'1 yOUl eLt nr Jl,at you vv ish to e,,ter the contest.
means anything, it rneanH
.Sim ple copies will he sent for tw o cen ts each.
means the ^ ’^ age" A hundred of th e Jew
A
ddress all letters and m ake all orders p ay ab le to
growth of the hum an m ind toward baiters were arrested by the police,
t r u t h , toward a true com prehension but most <<f these even, it is believ
TO R C H OF R E A S O N ,
SILVER TO N ,
of things. The world and life fu r ed, will escape punishm ent.
ORECO
Dr. Isaac M. V ise, the learned
nish facts; it is for science to ol>-
ser\e, exam ine, tabulate, co-ordi Jewish rabbi, and editor of the
nate those facts, and ex tract from American Israelite, referring to the
them their widest and deepest B ucharest affair, says:
As long as R oum ania was T u rk
meaning. Science does this in the
nothing
of • the
kind
interest of m ankind, in order th a t ish,
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kl"i1 occurred
« « u rre d
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But now it m an independent Chris-
weall m ay understand the condi- tian state, and there exists no cause
turns surrounding us in the world, why those sem i-barbarous hordes
d apply our energies in the most sboub^ »<>t slay and plunder the
profitable m anner for the promo- J e " s’ when their more enlightened
tion of our own and oth ers’ h mni- co' rellg,o" i8t8 . 'n A ustria do the
lh>s
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same, and their most enlightened
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confreres in G erm any preach loud-
I-'Tiring this in m ind, we may see ly and em phatically the doctrine of
an ominous sign of the times in an (‘xterm inatinii. It is evident that
article which appears in the Octo drristendoin has turned stark and
t - r num ber of the American lour-
mad, deaf m the voice
llai
c • i
,
...
Jo u r of reason and conscience, blind to
. f sociology, desenh,ng how the the rights of man and hum anity
"pulist party in the state of Kan- hke the steers in the arena of a
'as, having captured the state leg- ^P a ,,i*h hull-fight—not among the
idature, proceeded to m ake a raid loW?r ClaSS ° f criminaIt,> but among
on the
i.
i r,
students,
and political
lead-
lh. «tofu
.,«« A gricultural
College, ers.
This priests
is the sham
e of Christen-
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A. Wolf & Son
re, after some prelim inary man-
rs, they dismissed a consider«-
portion of the faculty, including
1 K* president, in order to insure
t,,at the doctrines tau g h t therein
ould be in line with Populist pol-
lt,(* ’
* 1 political control in such m at-
t r- is bad. I he only way to have
great teachers is to seek out men
dom at the close of ihis century,
If C hristian nations should use
their combined influence to prevent
such outrages in Christendom they
would so<»n cease; but the anti-Jew -
if-h feeling is still strong in some of
the most enlightened C hristian na-
lions, and until this abates probab-
b ’ little will be done, by concentrat-
’ action to prevent these disgrace-
°L
«ho have profoundly studied their
h" ',ed,aP ,in«‘ ,h®
t-
i t
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Jews, whose sefferings by |/ersecu-
rol subjects, and whose inter; tion have surpassed Those of any
several „ l ;
''"<lne>8 in expounding them is other people on the earth,
b . f . u .
,
R espectfully in v ite you to visit
th e ir estab lish m en t and con
vince y o u rself th a t they are
show ing the g reatest line of
G eneral M erchandise in M arion
county at p o p u lar prices.
Mail orders given prom pt atten tio n .
Yours to Please
A. WOL F & SON
Silverton, Oregon.