TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JU N E 30, 1898.
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in rare instances, and ere long it thou eat not the blood, for the
will be a matter ot history. It has blood is the soul, and thou mayest
IN THE
n seriously argued in England not eat the soul with the flesh.” In
that the Lord is withdrawing his the Dutch translation by the Eng­
,, jrjt from the earth; and it would lish bible society, we find the same;
seem so indeed if his spirit is the and Lev. xvii. 14 reads, “For it is
active factor in revivals. Richard the soul of all flesh. The blood is
H ith, in the Contemporary Re- the soul thereof.” In Gen. ix. 4.
view for May, gives a number of we read, “But the flesh, with the
facts to show that Evangelicisrn, by soul thereof, which is the blood
which he means orthodoxy as well thereof, shall ye not eat.”
T his is a R em arkable Offer!
a5 revivalism, is waning. Besides
I do not believe in the inspira­
Some One is G oing to be B enefitted!
other facts, he asserts that evan­ tion of the bible, but take it for
gelical institutions are burdened what it is worth, as I do orthodoxy
with growing deficits and evangel- and its teachings. There is as much
' ical denominations are decreasing difference between the two as there
From F eb ru ary 1 to A ugust 15, 1898, we have decided to
in membership, or at least not is between light and darkness. The m ake th is Remarkable Offer. / rh e p arty sending
keeping pace with the population.
bible teaches that when a m n is us the largest n u m b er of Y early Subscribers to the T orch
And this brings us to another dead he is dead. It teaches that of R eason , at the regular subscription rate of One D ollar a
sign of the times. The first-class man is going toa place where there Year, will receive Free.Tuition and Board at tlie
magazines, almost without excep­ is no knowledge, and outside the Liberal U niversity, at S ilverton, Oregon, for One School
tion, publish the facts brought to resurrection, it teaches no life be­ Year. The person sending th e Second Largest n u m b er of
light by the higher critics and the yond the grave. The word immor­ subscribers at one do llar a year, will receive Free
archaeologists, and either covertly tality appears five limes in the bi­ Tuition one year.
The w inners of these prizes m ay
or openly allow the inspiration of ble, but never in connection with choose any course of study given in the U niversity.
R em em ber th e Liberal U niversity is th e O nly School of
the bible to be attacked in their man’s soul, and man can onlv re-
pages. For instance, in the Arena ceive immortality by good works. the kind, and an offer like th is is Indeed R em arkable.
for June an article by Prof. Briggs, I I believe in the resurrection of the
published in the North American body, after it mixes with the ele­
Review, is attacked, a la Dew’ey, ments and is absorbed by plants will receive free tu itio n for a year and free board besides.
by a vigorous writer; and the effort and trees.
of the learned professor to sustain a
The bible “spirit” is wind, or
half-and-half position shares the common air, and I challenge the
will receive free tu itio n for a year.
fate of the Spanish fleet at Manila. whole orthodox world to dispute it
If you do not succeed j n w inning eith er prize, we will allow
The time for timidity and half­ from the bible. As-for Spiritualism,
heartedness in Secularism is past, it is imaginative insanity, pure and youjtw enty-five cents for every subscriber sen t us, provided
and every Liberal should speak out simple. I challenge them to per­ 1 V you send five o r • over. R em it us th e full a m o u n t w ith each
and let it he known that he does form one miracle that I cannot order, and we will retu rn the am o u n t due you at th e end
not venerate superstition. At prop­ account for.
Its foundation is of the contest if you fail to win a prize.
er times, and in a courteous man­ tricks in the dark. As for Chris­
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ner, we should embrace every op­ tianity, it is educated insanity, for
All subscriptions m u st be paid in advance.
portunity to assert the truth and a sane man reading the bible can­
Money must be fnrwarded with the order.
challenge the false assumptions of not believe the nonsenee as coming
All orders must b em afle d to u ta n d b earth e postmark at the office of mailing
orthodoxy. And we should not from an all wise good.
not later th an M onday. August 15, 1898.
only say something for the cause,
A. C o n k l in .
S u b scrip tio n s m ay lie se n t in at any tim e p rio r to M onday, A ugust 15, 1898, and
but we should do something. Dol­
we
will keep a record of th e n u m b e r sen t in by each c o n te sta n t.
I am just and honest, not because
lars are the sinews of war, and ev­
S ta te in your le tte r th a t you wish to e n te r th e co n test.
Sam ple copies will be se n t for tw<» cen ts each.
ery dollar spent for Liberal books I expect to live in another world,
A
ddress all letters an d m ake all orders payable to
and papers helps to bring “the but because, having felt the pain of
good time coming”, when rational­ injustice and dishonesty towards
T O R C H OF R E A S O N ,
SILVERTON,
OREGON.
myself,
I
havd
a
fellow
feeling
with
ism will be popular, and the advo­
cate of superstition will be regarded other men who would suffer the
same pains if I were unjust or dis­
as an old fogy relic of the past.
honest towards them. Why should
Ft. Dodge, Kan.
I give my neighbor short weight in
this world because there is not an­
An Orthodox Lie.
other in which I should have noth­
ing to weigh out to him? I am
E ditor P orch ok R eason :
If not too late for the symposium honest because I don’t like to in­
on the subject, I will give what lit­ flict ( V¡1 on others in this life, not
tle I know about the immortal soul because I am afraid of evil to my­
or Rpirit. We find it in the Catho­ self in another. It is a pang to me
lic catechism. The Catholic church to witness the suffering of a fellow
is the mother of Christian immor­ being, and I feel his suffering the
tality, which she borrowed from more because he is mortal, because
heathen mythology, and the Pro­ his life is so short, and I would
testants brought it with them when have it, if possible, filled with hap­
they left the mother church, as a piness, and not misery.—[George
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relic to show where they came Eliot.
£
from. I will give to any Christian,
Club Rates.
and especially to any sky pilot, the
The Weekly Oregonian is the
sum of 8100 for every time that the
expression, “immortal soul,” <>r best newspaper published in the
“immortal spirit,’’ appears in the Pacific Northwest. The subscrip­
bible, either Protestant or Catho­ tion price is SI.50 per year. We
lic, in Latin, Greek, French, Ger­ will give it, together with the Torch
man, Dutch, or any language in of Reason, for the exceedingly low
which the bible is printed. I find price of $1.75. You will get two
S ilverton, Oregon.
,
in Luther’s (German) translation, papers for a little more than the
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