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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1898)
6 THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JU L Y 14, 1S9S. ready to use unscrupulously all the * * * < W ESTERN * * * * temporal and spiritual powers they B righ t T h in g s said by can get hold of to damage and cir» O th ers. I » eumvent their competitors for island souls.” They all grasp unceasingly at “ecclesiastical, temporal and po The ignorant call him a heretic litical power,” and “power with whom they cannot refute.—[Cam them means persecution”.—[Free panella. thinker. If to he ignorant were as safe as Jesus teaches that the poor, the to be wise, no one would become hungry, the w retched shall be bless- Is there a n y th in g you w ant? Have you property to sett? wise. And all measures which tend ed. But blessing comes only when Do you wish to buu a home? Do you wish to put ignorance on a par with wis they cease to be poor, hungry and to go into business? l)o you wish dom inevitably check the‘growth of wretched. Contentment under pov to exchange real estate or wisdom.—[Spencer. erty, hunger and misery is high personal property? “Jesus-poison” is the name the treason, not to yourself alone, hut best Chinamen give to the opium to your fellows. Slavery spreads F riends : - -W e have recently established a general Ex brought to their country by Chris quickly wherever humanity is stag tian merchants, and forced into its I nant and content with wrong.— change and In fo rm atio n business in the th riv in g city of Silverton, and have for sale a nu m b er of tow n lots, vacant markets by Christiaa governments. [Charles Bradlaugh. That single phrase is a counter Il is not God who hath made and im proved, some well established business enterprises poise to all the boasts of the mis man, hut man who hath made God some splendid farm s n ear Silverton, and last hut not least, sionary societies.—[Freethinker. after his own image; he hath given ail the lots in With the Christians of America him his own mind, clothed him praying for the victory of the Unit with his own propensities, ascribed SEC ULAR H O M E . ed States and the Christians in to him his own judgments. And Spain praying for the destruction when in this medley he rinds the a tra c t of land ad jo in in g th e L iberal U niversity grounds, of America, the almighty must contradiction of his own principles, situated, for homes. Below is a p artial list affecting hypocritical humility, he have a perplexing time of it — that of the p roperty we have for sale. imputes weakness to his reason,and is, if he ow’ns the people of these belligérant nations as hie children names the absurdities of his own mind the mysteries of God.—[Vol- C IT Y P R O P E R T Y . at all.—[Flaming Sword. FA RM P R O P E R T Y , ney. H a lf - A c r e L o t in W est Silverton ; 2 3 acres, well im proved, fine house, Even if nothidg worse that wast b eau tifu l location for residence. $200. barn and o u tb u ild in g s, one m ile frob. A pious Christian prayed for a ed mental effort could be laid to the C o r n e r L o t n ear th e L iberal U n i Silverton, $4000. W ill trad e for larger versity. $100. blessing from heaven’s infinite, farm of equal value not over tw enty charge of theology, that alone ought L o ts in S e c u la r H o m e , location m iles from S ilv erto n . bounty, as he had been taught to to be sufficient to banish it from the to su it, a t $25, $50 and $75. do, but no blessing caiue. He won- j earth as one of the worst enemies 4 acres of land in S ilv erto n , O regon; 3 1 8 acres of sp len d id fru it and farm tw o good houses, fru it trees, etc. W ill ing land, well im proved, good running deled why bis prayer was not an of mankind. What a vast amount trad e for farm lan d . th ree m iles fiom S ilverton, at $27 of labor and learning has been ex swered. He related his disappoint- | H o u s e a n d L o t near th e d ep o t. p w er ater, acre. Can divide if necessary to su it p u rch aser. pended as uselessly as emptying rnent to his priest, who after a ser $750. H o u s e and lot in c e n te r of tow n. shallow puddles into seives.—[L. ies of inquiries learned that the $375. 1 6 0 acres of fine tim b e r, 1 ear a large trousers be wore when he knelt to M. Child. H o u s e »n<l barn w th acres of saw m ill, $1000. Logs can be floated ask his favor of heaven had been I lan d in S ilv erto n . $750. n early all th e way to m ill. Thirteen dollars a month for made by a Jew. The priest in shooting and $125 per month for formed him that that was the reas praying, is the way Uncle Sam re feiiverton is the hom e of Secularism , and fam ilies mov on his prayer had remained unan wards his patriots. That is to say, ing here will have th e splendid advantage of schooling swered.—[In vestigator. a private soldier’s pay is $13, while th e ir children in the only L iberal U niversity in the world that of a chaplain is $125. What Silverton is b eau tifu lly situ ated in th e g reat W illam ette Safe Until Needed. do you think of it? What do we valley in the foothills of the Cascade m ountains. A tine think of it, did you say? It would Here is a queer story from the sp ark lin g stream affords splendid w ater power and greal not look well in print, so we will W rite to us for fu rth e r inform a wilds of Oklahoma about a Metho advantages for drainage. not say.—[Living Issues. Y ours for business, dist preacher. While returning tion. Mr. Edward Reeves, who has just home one evening he had the mis issued a notable book on the South fortune to fall into an abandoned IN FO R M A TIO N B U R EA U and E X C H A N G E . Sea Islands, has no very high opin well. For some time his cries for ion of the missionaries. Take the assistance brought no response, but W a t k k H t k e f t , O pposite L iberal H all. Silverton, Oregon. following passage: “The truth is at length Alkali Ike chanced to pass that nine-tenths of the foreign mis by on his homeward way after an sions are not got up for the benefit evening of pleasure at the Blue W ho D o e s Y o u r ___ C u t T h is O u t of the heathen abroad, but for the Ruin fortune parlors. Fill it up. and forw ard w ith good of the sect at home. . . When “Help! help!” cried the clergy $1.00 to th e one sect intrudes upon the field of man in a hollow voice. L ib e r a l U n iv e rs ity C o ., another, the improvement of the “ Who’s that?” demanded Ike in Silverton, Oregon. native character comes to a stand return. still. . . . the temptation to run If you req u ire any “It is I, ReA. Jenks.” down each other’s faith, works and “That so? Well, whur are you, power to the native is usually too anyhow, an’ what’s the trouble?’’ C a rd s or C ir c u la r s , To the P u b lish ers a f the Torch strong for the priestly mind to re B ill H e a d s , “I am down in Bill Gaw’s old o f Reason: sist. Tahiti, Samoa and New Zea well, and—” N o te o r L e t t e r H e a d s , Please send th e T orch of R kabox to land testify to this melanchollyI “Any danger of drownin’?” S ta te m e n ts , m y address for one y ear, for which I e n truth. Birds of a feather may flock T ic k e t s , P ro g ra m s , close $1.00. “No; the well is almost drv, hut together, bnt when they do they I—” I n v ita tio n s , N a m .e........................................ usually fight over the carcass. . . 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