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T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV E R T O N . OREGON, TH U R SD A Y , AUGUST 4, IM S.
- pj con ’n£* n,lf‘c’e " L ^ c
I orcil OT Keason .t delivered.
In S a le m .
not come, but he does not hesitate
in his m ysterious motions.
He is
Salem is a city of churches, but
The O nly P ap er of Its Kind.
excellent at gesturing, and with no Secularists
t
don’t stop for trifle«
veibal expression excepting to SH V and so we entered the * capital city
in a solemn, m ysterious way, “ Do
Published W eekly by the L ite ra l i ni- (| iv in e a s s i|i, a llc e .
with not only the hope, hut the he-
versity C om pany, in the In te re sts of
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no«, tiikiir
fruit«
vp shall k now not lauch, please , he hv his mo-
i i find
x* i some heln
.
C o n stru ctive , M ural Secularism .
their iru n s ye *»n«n ano«
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fief th a t We would
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8aid ,he l'r *t‘»>, a » d ,hen ' .....8 com m ands the katchel to come f„ r ()Ur Fchool. Scon after arriv in .
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te|| BOIIle , he things tn h i m - t o a r i s e - t o go to one aide
{ound
our expenses, at
p. W . (je e r,. . — - j ’ ’ '
K essential in order to be considered — to turn around, etc.
He dance«
least for board and lodging, would
_ E ntered a, tb e
tli,:e a t Silvern.,., a good tree.
Every other thing W> "no side in a m ysterious way
us nothing.
Thus we were,
Oregon, as second-class mail matter.
m entioned was, it seemed, design-j he p o in ts to the satchel in a ura- from the very outset, encouraged
ed to fool the people into suhmis- m atic m anner. W hat in the name and went forth to find Liberal
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
sion to church ordinances. Here of wonder is he try in g to do?
friends who could afford to be lib-
$1 (X)
One year, in ad v an ce....................
6C
are
most
of
the
things
mentioned,
Ah,
he
is
draw
ing
a
crowd,
and
Six m onths, in a d v a n c e ....................
era I.
T hree m onths, in a d v an c e ................
25 in their order:
by and hv, giving his h at to a
We find that m any here belong
In clubs of five or more, one year,
Be
good
to
the
poor.
¡sm
all
boy,
he
says
a
few
mysteri-
in a d v an c e ..........................................
to the U n itarian church who are
Money should lie sent by registered
S v p p o r t THE CHURCH.
I ous words, picks up the grip and m embers because, as some of them
le tte r or m oney order.
Do not swear or use rough lan motions for the people to come. ex p lain , “ I t c< mes the nearest to
The crowd as one m an,w ith wonder
guage.
our views of an y organization in
Notice!
pictured
on
everv
face,
closes
1
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,
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B e f a it h fu l to mass .
1
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. the city.
Besides the help we
A pencil m ark here denotes th a t your
j around him. \\ e suppose th e g u p j^aVe a irea(j v shown, by the names
Be tern| erate.
subscription will ex p ire w ith th e next
n u m b er. You are earn estly requested
B e f a it h f u l to C h r ist , HOLY contains some patent medicine cure jn (he djflv; ent funds laKt wepk> W(j
to renew so th a t you may receive the pa­
ail, or som ething 11,at, when sold, rpcpivpd ,nany kjnd pncouragi
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have de­ MASS A N D TH E SACRAMENT.
cided th a t it is best for all concerned
‘If you do these thing»,” said the will bring the m an a good revenue. wordp aud pr......
Q, hp, p ¡n thp
th a t we do not send pap eis longer th an
How sim ilar are th etw o p.ctures,
and wg |eayp tbe c a p .
tiie tim e paid for unless so ordered. god m an, “ you are a good tree.”
T his will prevent any loss ami we will
In urging them to come to ves- and how they illu stra te Ihe power u , for ()ur <)wn b(j|<(ypd s i | VPrtonj
We request you to send us the nam es pers, he said it is a good thing to that wonder, hope ami veneration where much business and our better
of Secularists who m ight become sub- D r a v a io n e fiu t th a t it is a better have for evil when not under the
h alf p atien tly a y a it us. There are
seritiers and we will m ail sam ple copies, u J
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_______ _ __ thing to pray together. 1 his seems control of the highest faculty of the m any whose names were mentioned
co n trary to th e teachings of their hum an b ra in — reason.
as being in sy m p ath y with freed
THURSDAY, AUG. 4, E. M. 29«
own m aster, for he advocated, ac-
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education and the religion of hu­
cording to the gospel w riters, the M oral a n d F in a n c ia l S u p p o rt, m anity, whom we could not see on
By T h e ir F ru its .
idea of praying in one’s closet.
account of lack of time, but with
From a private letter from one of
But
the
contribution-taking
was
W hile in P ortland last week we
th e assistance of our friends we will
the w ealthiest bankers in the West,
attended the Catholic church, and quite a revelation to us. Ih e box is
indirectly reach them all, and all
we
quote
the
following:
the priest spoke on the same text made of hard wood, and every piece
will have an op p o rtu n ity to help
th a t the M ethodist m inister of T ay- of money dropped into it makes a
“Such an institution, to develop lift the dark cloud of ignorance
into
what yon anticipate, would ai d superstition th a t now hangs
lor Street church hail spoken on a ringing sound that can he heard all
few Sundays before when we were over the house, ib is works excel- have . to have a very „ large m oral over the world, and allow’ the
in attendance: “ By their fruits ye lently, for the box was not allowed anti financial support,
bright light of reason to energize
shall know them.
Do men gather to stop its money-music scarcely a
This is true, and as our faith the slum bering seeds of tru th now
second
excepting
when
the
collector
grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”
looks up to h u m an ity instead of to lying dorm ant.
E v ery thing about this Catholic paused as he came to the end of each a m ystery, we believe th a t when the
church is calculated to awaken th at aisle to bend the knee in h um ility m oral people of these U nited States
A broad.
faculty of the mind th a t m akes a to the priest and when he passed | g n(j out t ,iat our 8C|lool js being
Several sm all th u n d er showers
person fanatical unless it is govern- the poor Infidel, who has nothing built on strictly m oral lines, we
ed by reason.
The whole hack- to give to the gods. The collection will have the m oral and financial S atu rd ay m orning prevented us
ground of the pulpit is composed of having been taken, the most mys- support necessary to m ake the Lib­ from leaving the home of Joseph
Travel­
an im aginary picture of an im agin- terious p art of the ceremony be- eral U niversity the greatest in the P u tn am until after noon.
ing along the north fork of the
ary god—Jesus—with a halo about gan.
land.
John Day river for four miles, we
his head and a sanctified expression
The priest m um bled and grunt-
It is sure to come. Our princi­
on his im aginary features. Then ed; the people knelt and prayed; ples are right, and no am ount of arrived at the little town of Monu­
there are statues of the “ blessed the priest looked at a little thing opposition or neglect can possibly m ent, which has grown up since my
last vi.-it to this place, five years
virgin m other” with her god hoy in he held in his hand and took a
defeat our work.
The Liberal
ago. We used to ford the river,
her arm s. St. Joseph, and pictures drink of grog; the little queerly-
U niversity is a product of our ad-
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of angels, etc., etc. As the poor, robed hoys knelt and changed the vancing civilization;
the very na- bnt now it is crossed by
J a fine iron
deluded people come into the holy hook — more m um bling and ture of things forces such an insti­ bridge, which adds much to the
church, young aud old bow the g ru n tin g —more kneeling and pray- tution into existence. Like all re­ convenience of travel.
Leaving the Jo h n Day valley,we
knee to the priest who, dressed in ing—oh, it makes one sick to think forms, it moves slowly at first, but
m ysterious, costly robes, stands of the blank, open-m outhed wonder it is gaining m om entum every day, followed up a sm all stream a short
distance and then began the asceut
with his back to the audience, go- and superstition pictured on the
and when our building is com plet-
ing through some m ysterious cere- faces of these poor, priest-ridden j wi • z n
Uzw are
- now <>f a range of hills which lav 7 he­
ed this fall, m any who
m ony, assisted by little boys who, brothers and sisters.
.r .. -
. „ . ,
' tween me and Long creek valley,
w aiting to see if it is going to be a
&
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m ysteriously dressed, m ysteriously
F inally the sickening perform - success will
•11 need o no further
a .
Ih
e
th
u
n
d
er
storm
s
had
not
all
proof.
.
kneel, pass the w ine,change the big ance is over, and we arise to go,hilt
4.
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•. passed over; in the west the black
The tim e is so short now before it 1
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bible from one sole of Ihe fat priest as a clincher we find by the door n)U8l be rpady for , he openi„ g of clouds rolled up, and in a short
to the other, in a most m ysterious littles dishes of holy water, and as the f8„ term ' th a t the worker6 a). tim e I saw th a t I was sure to get a
m annex.
each m em ber goes out he or she most faint under the burden, hut it good w’etting unless I could outrun
A fter m any m ysterious “ false dips the finger into this priest- m ust be ready, and so they stagger the approaching storm . I urged
m otions and m um blings, the god- blessed (cursed) aqua pura, makes on. A few hundred dollars means the bike along a t a rapid rate up
m an talks in E nglish(?), and won- the sign of the cross and passes on. very m uch , at . this stage „ of , , the
l
„1 the grade, with the storm close be- .
work,
derful are his words indeed, so
“ A change comes o’er the sp irit iWj ’ ” e ''hope ,h a t Those who are 1 hind me. It was the first race ot
wonderfully delivered are they th
at ot
that
of my dream ”
In the street a tfb,e wi„ not poatpoDe lh eir , , aigt • he kind I ever had. Behind was»
terriffic storm , not over two hun­
th ey wouid m ake the members of crowd is congregating. _______
A m an „ is ' cl llU ^3 e
dred yards away. Before us was a
the Y. P. S. S. C. blush with sham e going through m ysterious motions,
steep grade, a t the top of which
if they were delivered by a member and, curious to know the cause of
of th a t youthful society, and espe- the excitem ent, we approach. On
W hat an immense book m ight be stood a friendly clum p of trees
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.... all
„11 the
,1.» things
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cially
if in . the
presence
com ­ .u the
ground i is . .. a sm all satchel,
once be- which m ight afford _u_ia
shelter if we
pany, not because of the substance, the m an is m ysteriously m otioning lieved, of wnich it is necessary to could ouiy reach it.
We made a
dash for it. The angry cloud threw
h u t because of the broken, hesitat- for it to come toward him . It does d o u b t.—Voltaire.
m anner in which
Some of the ideas
were good, but no better th an any
schoolboy could have given w ithout