T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON , TH U R SD A Y , FEB R U A R Y 24, 1.-9S.
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staff against the powers of dark- one another. But a lie agrees with '
no-*-
no tru th , and every lie th at is told
On our way home we were oblig- requires other lies to bolster it up.
ed to wait several hours in W ood-¡T he more num erous the lies the
burn, and here we met our Secular more additional lies are needed to
friends, Mrs. R obert Scott and fam- sustain them , and the greater the
v. who are alw ays glad to say a liabilities of ex unsure
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good word an<i do a kind ueed for
One lie may be added to another
the cause of tru th .
until there is a large network of
From W oodburn the business lies, which by careful guarding and
manager took a tie-pass for Mt. ingenius defenses, may he m ain-I
Angel, where he took part in a tained for a while, hut it is only a
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drama with the hoys of the Silver- question of time when the deception
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ton Marine Band. Here he became and fraud will be seen, and the net-
'¿icquainted with Mr. G. F. Mills, work will fall to pieces.
th e station agent, who was found to
To a lie are opposed all the
be a Secularist, and who subscribed m oral forces of the universe. The
fo r the T orch and promised to vis- stars in their courses fight against
it <>ur Secular S unday School at error, which is negative, tem porary,
Silverton. Thus we are continually evanescent.
Only the tru th en- Pupils are (liven Every O p p o rtu n ity to Learn W ithout
Being H am pered by S u p e r s titio n s and Dogmas.
rinding new friends and breaking dures.
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down the old prejudices.
One m ethod of lying is to deceive
The trip did us much good, for it by concealing the tru th and thereby
gave us a chance to stand off and conveying an im pression which is
look at our work from a distance, j m isleading and false. it is an old
and the effect was truly inspiring, saying, th a t the suppression of tru th
All we need now is su b stan tial en- is the suggestion of a falsehood,
couragement from our friends, to F reethinkers more than the slaves
A Splendid ( orps of teach ers and Good F acilities for
make the Liberal U niversity under- of dogma and creed, should recog-
Teaching.
Lor inform ation, address
taking a grand success.
nize and appreciate this proposi­
J. E. HOSMER, Ph.D., B.S.D , President,
tion. U nfortunately, some so-called
SILVERTON.
OREGON.
Liberals, under the influence of the !
W a r.
sectarian and partizan spirit, prac-
Orthodoxy is an excellent cloak tic© deception and lying whenever
for rascality and it is one th a t has they think the interest of ‘ the
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had a great, sale, for the world is cause” can thereby be advanced—
full of rascals, who are anxious to a m ethod for the use of which the
cover up their deformed ch aracters; C hristian of the third and fourth
but perhaps this cloak is doing the centuries especially, have been
world no more harm than what is severely condemned by Mosheim
Corner Main and W ater Streets,
sometimes
labeled
freethought. and other honest C hristian
his-
SILV ER TO N , ORE.
That kind of freethought
th at torians.
furnishes certain types of rascals
They, who do this, are men of
an excuse for continuing in their narrow m inds and low ideals, who
devilish m eanness is our
worst have not been able to em ancipate
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enemy, and we should, if we wish them selves from the bigotry and
to save the genuine article from dishonesty, generated bv tin* creeds
coming into disrepute and disuse. in which they were indoctrinated.
let our disapproval be known. If Such persons, w hether they preach
A G R IC U L T U R A L IM P L E M E N T S
all honest F reethinkers knew the hell or denounce it, are of the
real state of affairs, and would cast sam e type, and they do not repre- G uns, Fishing Tackle, C utlery, Sporting Goods, Etc., E tc
their whole weight on the side of sent a n y th in g w orthy the name of
SILVERTON, OREGON.
progressive, m oral, freethinking Liberalism , F reethought, or Secular-
Secularism, it would bring about a ism. T heir influence is but for the
change th at in its rap id ity of coni- m om ent, and only with those
ing and its heneficient influence whose love of the tru th and the
would astonish even the most right is feeble.
sanguine.
The governm ent of
The Liberal thought of this age,
Spain may he our enem y but the represented by its greatest minds, I
religion of Spain and its offspring like D arw in, H uxley, and Tyndell,
everywhere is an enem y to the Mill and Lewes, Grote and Lecky.
whole world. Soldiers of Secular- H arriet M artineou and George
ism to the front!
Eliot, P arker, Newman and Fisk
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gives no recognition to the ignorant
We W ill Do It For You
and petty spirits th at prate about
L ying Does not Pay.
Liberalism , w ithout any knowledge
III no busioeos d«ea lying pay. of ils fi” “ p ri» ^ P > « or a "X “ PP™-
Where it is practiced it is sure to la- ci“ ‘iou of i,s 6c" l’e sud influence-
discovered Bonner or later. A lie
B. F . U nderwood
I han You can Get It E lsew here
may m ake ils way around the
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world while tru th is p u ttin g on its haye H„ n)e )eUer |,eaIjH p ri„tcd with
...... but whe" tru ,h d,,eH g'T its Secular sentim ent and W ettsleiu’s
..... on> the lie •’ “ « » in
l,e
«’ertaken and to be severely kicked,
not killed.
-ving re-acts on the liar, and in
the long run defeats its own object.
l-very tru th in the universe liar-
io n izes with every other tru th ,
* ° two or more tru th s contradict
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